June 2012
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“… the biggest single reason [these players] were misvalued was that the experts...”
– On Wednesday I’ll be giving a talk here at #eyeo about luck.
It’s a really tough talk to assemble; I’m deep in something that I’m trying to understand myself, never been been this far outside my own experience and expertise. This is a tangent that extends from the thinking about algorithms, but...
“We have grown older, not only in years, but also in goals. We have gone all the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Diaries of a Young Poet
May 2012
26 posts
“Look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for mission. Move...”
– Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, discussing how the modern career is less like a ladder and more like a jungle gym (via moneyisnotimportant)
In which I rant about 'art as justification.'
”art as justification” is one of my least favorite things ever. Whenever I see something involving the exploitation, abusing, or killing animals, or honestly any inhumane or abhorrent behavior in the context of art, it makes me hate art. Fuck people who think they can do whatever they want and say it’s for a “greater good” because they are trying to make a statement...
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WatchSchwarm, Andreas Fischer
From the Vimeo page:
SCHWARM is a generative process. The software uses a swarm of particles to gradually create an abstract composition based on a series of photographs. The drawing agents behave according to a set of rules, but have a degree of autonomy. Each time the software is being run it produces an infinite sequence of unique images over time.
Lovely. Images...
“The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code, and...”
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A federal judge learned to code - O’Reilly Radar (via everythingisdisrupted)
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[#DIGART] 10 Reasons Why Digital Art Doesn't Need...
2. Tumblrization
An awareness of the built-in obsolescence of technology-based art affects how we approach single pieces. We begin to see them as on a continuum rather than as discrete objects. A ‘Tumblrization’ of art appreciation occurs where we spend less time with individual pieces of art. Instead, we scroll endlessly through curated collections. Art becomes less about lingering in front of...
“The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You...”
– William Gibson (via bashford)
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Does Occupy Signal the End of Contemporary Art?
These common themes - rejection of commercialism, a return to unironic figurative painting, a focus on mass, collaborative subversion of mainstream imagery and above all art with a social purpose - would be evidence of the beginnings of a new style under any circumstance.
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Mostly when I think about art in relation to Occupy Wall Street and actually having an effect I see it as pointless...
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Bibliography for the New Aesthetic
artstech:
Yeah so there are a ton of essays out there right now about the New Aesthetic. Lots of talk, little action. But I guess the action comes later, when we can all sit back and actually digest the arguments and make work / write more words.
So far, the best / clearest listing of different responses I’ve found is from Derek J. Kinsman here. Enjoy!
— KC
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Kenneth Goldsmith: The New Aesthetic & The New...
While it’s hard to say where writing fits into all this (thus far, The New Aesthetic has been primarily focused on visual forms), much of the digital page-based writing over the past decade—based on strategies such as sorting, parsing, remixing, culling, collecting, scraping and republishing– has insisted on multiple identities, born of one process while materializing in another. Marcel Duchamp’s...
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Lost at Sea by Robert Creeley
LOST AT SEA
Concerning a news item which reported
convicts breaking their own legs with
sledges, because they couldn’t take any
more the treatment they were getting…
All pull together now
because we’re going to make it
over to that other
far side.
Don’t cry, there’ll be people
all around us, not the least thought
of any more being bothered,
or...
April 2012
42 posts
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Too late.
Spiritualized - Too Late
My momma said when she got so concerned Don’t play with fire and you’ll never get burned Don’t touch the flame and you’ll never find out My momma said that’s what loves all about But its too late, Ive made up my mind Love always shows when there’s eyes it can blind Too late, something Ive learned Love lights the flame when there’s...
“Cyborgs are both political reality and mythical, discursive subjects. As N....”
– cyborg (via wildcat2030)
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Generative Protest: The Emergence Aesthetic of...
I wrote this last fall just as the fervor around Occupy Wall Street was waning, so I never really got a chance to publish it. In the spirit of May Day and the supposed reawakening of the movement here is my appraisal of Occupy Wall Street in relation to generative art and emergence. Let me know what you think.
Perhaps the most striking, and contentious, feature of Occupy Wall Street has been its...
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WatchNow this is awesome.
If projection mapping upends the image from the generality of the screen then this has an even more dynamic effect on the generality of the surface.
The ubiquitous screen as it exists now functions as a generic container for any kind of content. It has a single shape that all that is perceived through it must fit. With projection mapping this becomes more dynamic insofar...
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Politics and Engineered Virality
Noticed this quote that Kevin Slavin tumbled via food on the fire escape last night:
For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the...
Part of the issue I take with criticisms of obscurantism in a hyper-connected era is that if you aren’t “actively” reading by engaging the linked content that is referred to then you are the one who is doing a disservice to the content.
Hyperlinks and Google exist as a means of activating reading as opposed to the passive reading of words on the page. Read non-linearly. Get...
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World Was In The Face Of The Beloved
World was in the face of the beloved—,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.
Why didn’t I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn’t I drink
world, so near that I couldn’t almost taste it?
Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too...
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1. Reject the Market, Embrace the Market by Jerry Saltz
And the art world is having a quiet, collective Archimedes-eureka moment. We’ve been in this tub of brackish water for a while, feeling frustrated with the business of art, sometimes hopeless and uninspired, wondering what can be done. Now people realize that if we’re all already in the tub (e.g., the system), we’re already displacing...
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Younger generations will be less inclined to hide behind artifice, however, they will be more inclined to use artifice to open source themselves.