prosthetic knowledge

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Turntables and Records

A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the Web, taking a brief look at creative and sometimes poetic plays with the familiar audio technology of vinyl records.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Arrays and Matrices

A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on installation artworks which can be characterized by geometric or networked arrangement.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Contemporary Plotter

In my latest submission, a look at some modern projects that employ the use of one of the oldest computer output technologies - the plotter.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Slitscan

In this submission, a brief look at some coding experiments with the distortive and occasionally insightful slitscan technique.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Surveillance Painting

In this submission, three painters whose work replicates the visual grammar of New Media: Enda O’Donoghue, William Betts, and Kon Trubkovich.

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Typewriter 

A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web on creative projects and installations which employ the typewriter as part of the work.

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Rhizome - Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Commodore Christmas Demos 

In my last submission this year, we take a look at some seasonal animations made on the Commodore 64, ranging from the promotional (to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine) to the communal and entertaining.

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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The 3D Gif 

In this submission, with the animated GIF format both celebrating it’s 25th birthday and becoming the U.S. word of the year, I take a look at some creative projects which take the 2D format and takes it into another dimensional context.

Included are ‘Gifpumper’, a community GIF collage project which can place a series of GIFs in a 3D space, ‘Animated GIF in 3D’ which displays the GIF frames spatially (bottom left image), ‘GIF 3D Gallery’ which can take a GIF and place it on a virtual gallery plinth (top image), and ‘GLGIF’ (bottom right image), a piece of code which can be set up to create a spinning GIF video wall with music.

Also included to test these projects are GIFs by a few Tumblr artists - DVDP, V5MT and Max Capacity.

You can read the piece at Rhizome here

Rhizome - Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Internet Coolhunting

A collection of examples where pop culture was clearly inspired by smaller creative activities on the web (with some people not necessarily happy about it). With online chatter regarding the performance by Rihanna on Saturday Night Live and it’s adoption to the net-art ‘Seapunk’ style, it’s worth knowing that the mixed reaction is not an isolated occasion. Marketers employ ‘coolhunters’ to look out for interesting small cultural developments to make their artist’s seem ‘fresh’ and ahead of the game, an activity that has been happening since the early 1990s, which was a key subject in William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition.

Examples include Timbaland + Chiptune, Tumblr Fashion + Jeremy Scott, Paul B Davis “Datamoshing” Technique + Kanye West, and A Stroke of Genuis - Freelance Hellraiser + RCA.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Web Toys 

In this submission, a collection of online projects to play around with, such as remixing Google Maps Streetview photos that become ASCII art or Little World fish-eye panoramas, draw with text, or remix images with animated emoticons.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Computer Graphics & Art 1976 - 1978 

A brief look at a short-lived American quarterly publication, which gives a little insight into the practice of art with computers in the 1970’s. While a product of its time, there are some places with resonances to the practice of today.

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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: CurAudio / DocuMP3 

A collection of audio content from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web.

Featuring a 2004 talk from Notcon called “100 Years of the Computer Artscene”, DJ Food’s documentary-in-mixtape-form “Raiding The 20th Century”, Delia Derbyshire’s “Dreams” which feature narrations of peoples dreams with her unique audio style, and “Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 - 1984 Part 1” by Fluorescent Grey, a mix of electronic music created between that period, cut-up, and reconstructed into something contemporary.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Computed Fashion

A collection of items from this blog’s archive and around the web, including Nukeme’s Glitch Embroidery project, Kayla Mattes’ 90s Tech / Pop Culture fashion designs (before it recently became, well, fashionable), and more.

You can see the whole piece at Rhizome here

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - The Female Pixel 

A digest of links on the idea of ‘The Female Pixel’, including (on Tumblr) FM Towns Marty, Sheroes, V5MT, PartyTime! Hexellent.

It also features Lillian Schwartz, Waldemar Cordeiro, Jovi Xu, and Christian Zander.

You can read the whole thing here