Topic: Digital Aesthetics?
A Valentine for Perfect Strangers (Ben Coonley)
Topic: Borges and The Infinite
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Borges entry at Wikipedia
text of The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph
hyperfiction adaptation of "The Aleph" by Borges.
Book of Sand interactive interface to text "This application relies on a cellular automata where each cell simulates a grain of sand."
Topic: Web Surfing as an Aesthetic? The Aleph again?
Where the Hell is Matt (Matt Harding, 2008)
INVISIBLE GIRL Icy Spicy Leoncie
Olivia Munn: Internet Girl
Portofino video by Blackmoth.org ( Kari Altmann )
excerpts from New York Times article, July 8, 2008
In many ways "Dancing" is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it?s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it's open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism. It could be an allegory of American foreign policy: a bumptious foreigner turning up all over the world and answering just to his own inner music. Or it could be about nothing at all - just a guy dancing.
The other remarkable thing about the "Dancing" phenomenon is that it is, to a very considerable extent, a creation of the Internet. It doesn?t just live, so to speak, on the Web; it was the Web that, more or less accidentally, brought it into being. The current video is actually the third iteration of a project that began in 2003, when a friend, using a Canon pocket camera with the capacity to record brief videos (when it was still something of a novelty), shot Mr. Harding doing his dance in Hanoi.
Mr. Harding is aware that fame on the Internet is fleeting, and needs novelty for life support. On the one hand, data is never lost - it's floating out there in cyberspace forever - but, on the other, our memories (and those of our computers) are limited and subject to constant upgrades. A video is downloaded, sent to a friend or two and then quickly forgotten. Who anymore goes back to look at that animated dancing baby that was all the rage in the ?90s? So Mr. Harding isn?t certain yet whether he wants to make a sequel.
Topic: A database eye?
Whirr (Timo Katz) from Cartune Xprez DVD (2008)
One (Mark Callahan, 2002)
"Hundreds of images of cars scanned from vintage postcards, placed sequentially to suggest the travel of a single car in a figure-eight path."
flashings in the mirror (Jasper Ellings)
echopraxia echopraxia. (directed by fu pok yan) http://funkpunkyun.sinaman.com/
also look at loops from Cartune Xprez (2006)
also look at loops from Cartune Xprez (2008)
Moments in Love (Francine Spiegel) from Cartune Xprez DVD (2008)
The Monkey Writes (Drew Pavelchak) from Cartune Xprez DVD (2008)
selections from Seven Animations (Dennis H.Miller)
selections from Six Videos (Pengilly and Rhoades)
typology - Bernd and Hilla Becher - water towers
Topic: the image machine and the analytical machine (Manovich, ch 1)
Jacquard's Loom, Babbage, Edison
Manovich's properties of new media
- numerical representation
- modularity
- automation
- variability
- transcoding