Research & Practise

Reference: Mixed media: from digital aesthetics towards general communication theory by Klaus Bruhn Jense : http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/doi/abs/10.1386/nl.5.1.7_1 His article mainly draws the connection of Lev Manovich, the language of media + Jay Bolter, remediation to examine the digital media form from cultural and mass communication perspective. One of Manovich’s main points is that display and narrative are becoming less central...
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A great free online platform – Many Eyes, allows you to upload your dataset in text/excel, afterwards you can pick any style of visualization for use. I have tried one with my draft article on the words, pretty easy and also with lots of parameters to modify. Pretty nice one. Here is the interface,...
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Jonathan Harris’s website with art projects and writing. He born in 1979, makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. He is having the background of computer science, but his artworks combine the elements of web technology, anthropology, visual art and story telling. Spend sometimes in looking at some of...
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Behavior, Purpose and Teleology (1943) in: Philosophy of Science, 10(1943), S. 18–24. by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow (online: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Wiener-teleology.pdf) the behavioristic approach consists in the examination of the output of the object and of the relations of this output to the input all machines are purposeful orderly, is not purposeful – o.e there...
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After my previous work on ‘jsut code‘, I am fascinated with code, especially the mechanism of decoding & encoding, as well as testing the boundaries of 30% error acceptance. One of the characteristic of QR code is allow 30% level of error, which is quite high actually, and that’s why also a lot of possibilities that designer...
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The extra circuit is ready now, it links up with Arduino board to receive serial signal. This new board can able to drive 9 motors, and can control individual one. Thanks so much to Kinsun in helping this technical part. Final outcome will be a 9×9 mini-Parasol: with the concept of optical illusion, color...
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Simple program to test out: activity, pass data, different layout, simple interaction, number pad two layout -layout xml two .java activity to pass data modify string.xml modify manifest xml – add 1 activity Share on Facebook
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Android development on Mac OS X While a lot of iphone apps developed with objective c / openframeworks in the market, I am more interested in android OS, a truly open platform. Due to the fact that my thinking is more on artwork development rather than commercial apps, therefore the loose security control / market share...
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To be continued… Benedikt, Michael, ed. Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991 ch8: Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace by Marcos Novak  p.225- (electronic copy: http://www.surfacenoise.info/367/readings/novak.pdf) p.225: Cyberspace is a habitat for the imagination…Poetic thinking is of an entirely different order p.226: allow us to enter cyberspace with our bodies p.227: The ‘reality’ that...
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Hypertext as Collage-Writing by George P.Landow p.150-170 hypertext Vs Collage hypertext: open-ended -> various kinds of materials began attaching themselves translation of the Hypertext and Collage Web hypertext system theorists & practitioners: Vannevar Bush, Theodor Nelson (coined the term hypertext/hypermedia), Douglas Englebart (father of computer mouse) linking creates new kinds of connectivity and reader choice ->...
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