‘glitchr’, a project undertaken by lithuanian laimonas zakas, uses unicode characters to exploit programming bugs of common web destinations (including facebook, tumblr, and google), resulting in visually interesting textual digital art that overwrites the standardized formatting generally used by these sites. The process differs from simple ASCII art in that it involves using non-character entities to effectively ‘break’ layout...
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Just found an interesting blog- Tinkerlog by Alex, he has posted two pieces about the using Twitter data: 1) Twitballon: An Arduino controls a small servo lifting or pulling down a balloon according to Twitter activity regarding a predefined topic. The chosen keywords is ” Kolle and Rebbe”. Source code can be downloaded here. More...
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My Boyfriend Came Back From The War by Olia Lialina, 1996 Artwork: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war2.htm See video here: “[My boyfriend came back from the war” is a site where there are many frames consisting of sentences and pictures. The user has a choice of clicking what frame they want. This relates to the Borgesian view because the user...
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By squidsoup – Ghosts play with the notion that texture discussions, (Web chat, MSN, SMS, Email, etc) are ‘instant’ and have no long term existence. By creating permanent sculptures out of these fragments of thought, throwaway ideas, abuse and casual communication, we give each message a new context and added purpose. As all visuals...
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