More about the Art Lending Library, via a site/system/identity designed by VIS-COM-DES people Sebastian Gorton Kalvik and Sophie Dyer. Includes an interesting set of educational events.
Photography: Colin Gray
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But it moves: the New Aesthetic & emergent virtual taste, on metaLAB at Harvard, is an interesting window on a very contemporary debate. A quick excerpt (quoting bruce sterling) frames the discussion thus;
[T]he New Aesthetic is a gaudy, network-assembled heap. It’s made of digitized jackstraws that were swept up by a generational sensibility. The products of a “collective intelligence” rarely make much coherent sense.
It was grand work to find and assemble this New Aesthetic wunderkammer, but a heap of eye-catching curiosities don’t constitute a compelling worldview. Look at all of them: Information visualization. Satellite views. Parametric architecture. Surveillance cameras. Digital image processing. Data-mashed video frames. Glitches and corruption artifacts. Voxelated 3D pixels in real-world geometries. Dazzle camou. Augments. Render ghosts. And, last and least, nostalgic retro 8bit graphics from the 1980s.
These are the forms of imagery that Bridle’s collaborators have thrown over his transom. There’s lots, they’re all cool, and most are rather interesting, and some are even profound, but they don’t march together.
Sorry – a bit slow off the mark to blog Culture Hack Scotland 2012. However if you consider yourself handy with code there are still developers tickets available, and if don’t, but you’re interested in getting involved and learning some basic building blocks to get started with using data, there are also ‘cultural track’ tickets still available. Follows on, as you’d imagine, from Culture Hack Scotland 2011
Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media is one of the latest books to make its way to my bookshelf. By clicking that link above you can see the author, Geert Lovink, talk about a number of the key themes in the book.
For me, the ideas around ‘weak-links’ and their exploitation are most interesting, but also rather enjoy the general disregard for and dissection of the all too pervasive hype around social media/networks. (Think that possibly takes the prize for worst sentence ever constructed on the vis com blog, but you know what I mean).
Interesting Parallel Worlds, in relation to corporate sponsorship of arts and culture.
Obama Says So Long to SOPA, the Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation, as reported by Forbes, and here by the BBC. The question still remains though; in what form might this ‘type’ of legislation next re-appear?
Here’s Clay Shirky talking about the topic at TED. To read more, try Lawrence Lessig, or this piece on copyleft, as a starting point.
“It is clear that copyright is being misdirected from its original intention to that of meeting the needs of corporations desperate to safeguard existing profits and create new markets artificially.” From: Copyleft and copyright / Eye 55
“You are sat in a pitch-black room. Your head is gently buzzed with whisky. Out of the darkness you hear a recording of my voice.”
Some interesting podcasts, via The Serving Library.
Friedrich Kittler has been described by some as the Derrida of the Digital Age – the first philosopher to truly explore and understand our emergent relationship with digital technology. Friedrich Kittlers computer wars is a podcast on the Guardian website which explores this legacy.
Another writer on the ‘digital’ who might be worth looking into is Vilém Flusser, who wrote about networks, but also photography and the ‘technical image’.
Thanks to Gordon Hush for the initial link.
“…a revolutionary new way to collect art by the world’s leading contemporary artists in digital format”
Interesting that this is happening in the advent of ‘Cloud’ storage… do we actually own our digital content? Do you actually own the limited edition artwork if it’s stored online? Ego-massage via your iPad?
“New Art/Science Affinities” is a new publication focusing on artists working right now at the intersection of art, science and technology. Co-published by The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, this 190-page book was written and designed in one week by four authors Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans and Pablo Garcia and two designers Thumb in a collaborative authoring process known as a “book sprint” derived from “code sprinting” for open source projects.
You can download the book for free, by following that ‘via’ link, there, down below.
Trend List is a bit like every design blog you’ve looked at, viewed through different goggles. Possibly interesting and cynical in equal measure, its that troublesome burden of history again, magnified through the internet vortex.
History+Internet=Paralysis.
(And I’m not sure that centre-aligned is a trend, so much as one of 3 or 4 standard ways of aligning text).
Like a Phoenix from the flames, Book and Web of the Week resume usual service, with the first website — the Café Society — suggested by Alex Lunn (thankyou), and the first book being Studio X NY.
If there’s one thing about the internet, there’s plenty to look at. To assist, using some widget-type rss aggregators, I’ve made myself ATN Reader, to visually and textually sort interesting feeds from sites that I like. If you have exactly the same interests as me, then you may like it too.
From Rob Walker, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Googled Reproduction‘. Connects (in my mind) with this (or this). (And this).
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