Art crawl
about generative ARt
an article about generative ARt on new city chicago
A Random Walk
" It was eye-opening to visit the Network of Visual Art Studios this past weekend (a studio/exhibition facility I manage as the director of Bridge) for the opening of "Unexpected Token: An Exhibition of Algorithmic Drawings," a show of work by students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago....
I had no idea what to expect; we had simply handed the space over to Tiffany Holmes, an assistant professor in the Art and Technology Department (www.tiffanyholmes.com). She in turn gave the space over to fourteen students from her class who each brought out examples of their own algorithmic and generative art.
As a particular subset of the new media genre, algorithmic art requires explanation.
If you were to draw a new-media family tree, the line would descend directly to "generative art," art made using a semi-random software algorithm, or some other type of mathematical or mechanical process (www.generative.net is a good online resource).
Artists working in the generative genre introduce into their computerized process a formula that ensures randomization. The result is a new type of algorithm separate from the initial two--neither fully a product of either the computers or the artist's process.
The earliest known example of algorithmic art was made by Roman Verostko, who keeps a Web site at www.verostko.com detailing his and his fellow Algorists' work.
There are some other fantastic examples of new media on display right now: it's also the umbrella genre, for example, for the budding medium of surveillance art; check out www.open-loop.org for a map of all known cameras in the Loop.
Kevin Hamilton, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, opens a new exhibition at the College of DuPage's Gahlberg Gallery this Thursday called the "Department of Rhythmalysis"
He describes the installation on his Web site at www.synchronaut.net as implementing "site-specific alarm systems that monitor the status of a variety of remote and local conditions."
In plain English, he has outfitted the gallery with wall-hung boxes resembling electric panels lined with rows of red and green lights that blink on and off in response to a list of queries such as: "Are you keeping your voice down?" and "Is there daylight in Baghdad?" These are in turn hooked up to bullhorns. The goal? There's a reason Hamilton took the name of his exhibition from the Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre--he's attempting to address the rhythms of "individuals, groups, whole societies."
"Marked," an installation by Joseph Kohnke at the West Loop's Three Walls, also opening this weekend, updates traditional notions of new media in the artist's signature fashion.
Working with "kinetic sculpture," he uses machines to animate inanimate objects. According to press materials, after a friend died of melanoma, "Kohnke was drawn to every skin imperfection on his own body" and began considering how "markings on the skin can act both as camouflage--increasing chances of survival--as well as harbingers of death." His piece for this show helps to search for and categorize skin markings as a way of reading the patterns of flaws that may offer indicators of health and disease......
written by Michael Workman
read all on new city chicago
EuroOSCON, the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention
EuroOSCON, the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention
18-21 September 2006 in Brussels, Belgium
http://conferences.oreilly.com/eurooscon/
"Open and Connected" is the theme for the second annual O'Reilly European
Open Source Convention. Come to EuroOSCON 2006 and examine the technology,
business, politics, and social dimensions of open source, open culture,
open APIs, open innovation, and all that's built on top of them.
The program has just been announced and early registration is now
open--sign up before 7 August to save *a lot* of euros:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/48/register.html
RoboGames
The next event of RoboGames is in San Francisco, June 16-18th. Join us for hundreds of robots, including walking androids and combots up to 340 pounds.
Some of the best hits by robots at the last two ComBots events.
via robots-dreams.com
on wired about RoboGames "The Best Ten North American Geek Fests"
official site Robogames
sign
CINE 2.0 (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment, pronounced "sign")
Artists: James Tunick, Miro Kirov, and Houston Riley with Tony Rizzaro and Braden Weeks Earp
www.StudioIMC.com
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Artists: James Tunick, Miro Kirov, and Houston Riley with Tony Rizzaro and Braden Weeks Earp
www.StudioIMC.com
imcBLOG
top10 strangest gadgets of the future
VIRTUSPHERE
HELIODISPLAY
via techeblog.com
top10 strangest gadgets of the future
un gioco per un orinatorio pulito
designer : Marcel Neundörfer
Yanko Design explains an unusual electronic game that is found inside urinals. Yanko says the urinal can improve hygiene because people will focus on hitting the target. It also says it will make using urinals and restrooms more enjoyable.
via gamersgame.com
2d code and camera phone
Just recently in Japan, MacDonalds have been printing QR bar codes on their cheesburger wrappers. When the code is scanned it takes customers to a site with allergy and calorie information about the range of products.
via peterhanami.blogspot.com
and theponderingprimate.blogspot.com
Aboriginal Australia map
The Aboriginal Australia wall map represents work carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia's Indigenous peoples.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au
via savageminds
HEALING GAMES - Computer simulations don't have to be violent -
HEALING GAMES -
Computer simulations don't have to be violent -- they can give peace a chance
"That's all these gamers are saying: Give peace a chance"
article by Scott Duke Harris is a freelance writer in San Jose on SFGATE
interactive 3d poker game on MTV
The Next Generation of Poker Has Arrived with Learning AI, Sanctioned Online Tournaments
MTV Presents: STACKED Poker Television Special to Air on MTV2 on June 2nd and on MTV on June 3rd
The first video game to bring next-generation gameplay and broadcast quality production to Texas Hold 'em Poker. Learn everything from the fundamentals to advanced strategies from poker's premiere player and refine your game against the world's most advanced artificial intelligence system before testing your skills in massive online tournaments.
http://www.mtv.com/games/holdem/stacked/
TouchMe
TouchMe is an interactive installation that allows its users to create and contribute a personal image to the otherwise impersonal public space. Images that are created by interacting with a plate of frosted glass, remain a part of the piece and are displayed when no interactions occurs for a given time.
http://www.blendid.nl/
via http://liquidlifehacker.blogspot.com
Regine Debatty recently interview Blendid on her blog
First Annual Sex in Video Games Conference
You're invited to the First Annual Sex in Video Games Conference to be held June 8 & 9th in San Francisco. Featuring two full, information-packed days with 30 of the adult and tech industry's leading figures, the Sex & Video Games conference is already shaping up to be one of the industry's premiere events.
Anyone who is anyone is already set to be there - from Wired's Sex Drive columnist Regina Lynn to Fleshbot's Violet Blue to Naughty America: The Game's Noah Dudley to Second Life's Phoenix Linden.
The conference has something for everyone.
Check out our schedule here.
the broth
TheBroth.com is a massively multiplayer, real time internet application that connects people around the world to interact in a shared global mosaic.
Visitors can use their standard internet browser (no plugin or download required) to participate and influence an unpredictable and ever-changing live playground.
Artnatomia
Artnatomia is a flash application created by Victoria Contreras Flores to show all the major muscles of the face and their effect on facial expressions.
via ozoux.com/eclectic
Microchip in ogni neonato
L'impianto di Microchip in ogni neonato in USA e Europa è in atto, secondo l'ex Ufficiale Medico in Capo Finlandese.
Di Greg Szymanski Link all'articolo originale - 11 Maggio 2006
Tradotto da Stefano Pravato per www.disinformazione.it
Esiste la tecnologia per creare un Nuovo Ordine Mondiale totalitario e vi sono piani sinistri per farne uso su soggetti pubblici ignari con la copertura degli uomini politici USA
Siete preparati all'eliminazione totale della privacy e alla robotizzazione dell'umanità, nonché all'esame di ogni pensiero che vi passi per la testa?
Siete pronti a vivere in un mondo in cui ogni neonato viene micro-chippato? E, infine, siete pronti ad avere ogni vostro movimento, tracciato registrato e posto nel data base del Grande Fratello?
Per quanto sembri impossibile, ci sono piani bene avviati per controllare ogni mossa e ogni pensiero della popolazione americana non appena il Nuovo Ordine Mondiale ponga fine al periodo di prolungata violenza, una fase di assunzione del controllo che il paese sta ora sperimentando.
E poiché nei compiacenti media USA si trova pochissimo, è stata una storia apparsa nel giornale Spekula, Finlandese, a raccontare agli americani quanto prossimi siamo ad entrare nel totalitario Nuovo Ordine Mondiale.
leggi tutto Link all'articolo originale
Siete pronti a vivere in un mondo in cui ogni neonato viene micro-chippato? E, infine, siete pronti ad avere ogni vostro movimento, tracciato registrato e posto nel data base del Grande Fratello?
Per quanto sembri impossibile, ci sono piani bene avviati per controllare ogni mossa e ogni pensiero della popolazione americana non appena il Nuovo Ordine Mondiale ponga fine al periodo di prolungata violenza, una fase di assunzione del controllo che il paese sta ora sperimentando.
E poiché nei compiacenti media USA si trova pochissimo, è stata una storia apparsa nel giornale Spekula, Finlandese, a raccontare agli americani quanto prossimi siamo ad entrare nel totalitario Nuovo Ordine Mondiale.
leggi tutto Link all'articolo originale
{NABAZ'MOB
{NABAZ'MOB at flashfestival 2006
Nabaz'mob, opéra pour 100 lapins communicants.
de Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé.
Coproduction Web Flash Festival et Violet, créatrice du lapin Nabaztag.
Sur une idée originale de Guylaine Monnier.
Les lapins nabaztags sont la première génération d'objets communicants via wifi avec les réseaux.
100 lapins Nabaztag apportés par leurs propriétaires respectifs se donnent rendez-vous, dans l'esprit des flashmobs, sur la scène du Centre Pompidou pour interpréter, tous ensemble, un opéra spécialement composé pour l'occasion par Antoine Schmitt (http://www.gratin.org/as) et Jean-Jacques Birgé (http://www.drame.org).
Convoquant John Cage, Steve Reich et Conlon Nancarrow, cette partition musicale et chorégraphique ouverte en trois mouvements, transmise par wifi, joue sur la tension entre communion de l'ensemble et comportement individuel pour créer une oeuvre à la fois forte et engagée.
who is Nabaztag
http://www.nabaztag.com
Flashfestival.net 2006
Flashfestival.net 2006
Prix Art graphisme : Art-session/s4, Yoann Montalban
Prix Centre Pompidou "net art" : Superpositions, Renaud Vercey, Position
(see also - what are you)
Prix Animation : Défilé Kenzo, Frédéric Sofiyana, Evostruct
Prix Expérimental & GRAND PRIX 2006 : Breaking-phone, Julien Lasort
(see also netdisaster)
Prix Présentation : Twoto, Twoto
Prix Jeu : Les cavernes D'Hammerfest, Motion-twin
Prix du public : Dofus Arena, Ankama
http://www.flashfestival.net/2006/
Greenaway and Rembrandt
Over in the Rijksmuseum, Peter Greenaway directs ``Nightwatching,'' a theatrical installation telling the story behind Rembrandt's 1642 painting ``The Night Watch,'' while in the former industrial Westergasfabriek Zuiveringshal, the music of Verdi forms the basis of ``Sentimenti,'' a music theater evening devised by Johan Simons and Paul Koek. The festival runs from June 2 to 25. http://www.hollandfestival.nl
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