Posts Tagged ‘ Reading ’

extension of digital text / properties of digital system: Algorithm-driven operation -> digital objects with the machine-language instructions Reactive and interactive nature -> Computer code is based on conditional statements (if… then) that execute different instructions, depending on the state of the system or on external input. I call a system reactive when it responds to...
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The book is about digital story telling. “I am assuming that this movement is analogous to the invention of the movie camera a hundred years ago, and asking: if the digital environment (multimedia, networked, desktop, VR, arcade, etc.) is the ‘camera,’ then what will be the equivalent of the ‘movie’? The holodeck provides one...
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Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice (2008) by Mitchell Whitelaw develop a wider potential of data practices… The so-called ‘web 2.0’ paradigm further abstracts web content into feeds, real-time flows of XML data. > Yes as web 2.0 facilitates the exchange, sharing of data, content / data itself converts into feeds that...
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dichtung digital is designed to contribute to an aesthetics of digital literature, it is a online journal founded by Dr. Roberto Simanowski. There are no. of english articles about code poetry and aesthetics of digital art, really good one! To be updated… Re: List(en)ing Post by Rita Raley Aesthetics of listing and community: collection and...
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“GenArt is just another byproduct of the eternal titanic battle between the forces of chaos and order trying to work out their natural harmony” – by Matt Pearson I am reading a book “Generative Art: a practical guide using processing”, there is free sample chapters online here. A pretty easy reading book and introduce...
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Ref: Inventing the Medium by Janet H. Murry p.3-11 p.6- 4x representational power of the computer: procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial properties p.6 – random access availability p.6- the computer can present itself to us as a place, one which we enter and do not wish to leave…its capability for embodying dimensionality p.6- spatializing...
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On and on I have read some of the articles of jack Burnham, he is an art theorist & artist (sculptor), also an american writer focus on art and technology. He made a great contribution in system art: brief details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burnham In his article, he talked a lot of system theory and aesthetics,...
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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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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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A philosophy of Computer Art by Dominic Mclver Lopes, 2010 p.86: …they narrow the gap between creativity and skill, reducing the amount of skill needed for creative drawing, film editing, and music-making. p.86: computers standardize art-making, and they impose goals on artists that stifle creativity. p.87: Sometimes creativity thrives under constraints > talking about...
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