prosthetic knowledge
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Palace of the Net
A short 5 minute documentary on a creative collaboration over the internet, which is in itself a demonstration of and about how Net Art is produced:
Palace of the Net from Jessica Eucalyptus Quinnell on Vimeo.
A documentary film following an online art collaboration between the director and Grace Miceli.
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Seed Drawings by Clement Valla
Ongoing art series which looks like computer generative art, is actually a product of thousands of drawings by people:
Each Seed Drawing is an aggregate of many smaller drawings, all produced as copies of one another.
Over a 3 month period, thousands of individuals were solicited to copy small simple line drawings, through an online labor marketplace called Amazon Mechanical Turk. As each copy was completed, it in turn was replicated by other Mechanical Turk workers. Each drawing is produced by a single individual with no knowledge of the overall forms and structure within the larger drawing.
The iterative process of copying produces growth-like structures in which different patterns of influence and large-scale structures emerge. These larger drawing characteristics are purely the result of local interactions; beyond the writing of the algorithm, no single individual is making larger decisions for the group. -
Mini-Composer
iOS App is a 16-track audio sequencer designed to be synced to other users for performing together.
From Creative Applications:
Karl Bartos (electronic musician, ex-Kraftwerk, co-composer of songs like The Robots, The Model, Computer World,…) and Masayuki Akamatsu (media artist and author of various iPhone apps) created a 16 step music sequencer now available for free on the AppStore.
Created in support of Red Cross site, the app was presented in the form of installation in Kyoto comprising 35 iPads and inviting guests to download the app to the iPhone and use the room as an instrument.
As you can see in the video above, it was used as part of an interactive installation piece ‘Sync for Japan’.
You can find out more about the app at Creative Applications here
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EightBitBeats - a social 8 Bit music sequencer
Created as part of the 48-hour Node Knockout programming competition, where teams of programmers were to create a web-based app in a weekend using node.js
The idea is interesting, yet not polished - with a little more work this could be a fun collaborative site, but the basics are there. You have a sequencer board, with six types of instruments. A Mega-Man sprite runs from left to right as the timer. Other participants can join in, setting up their own sequences, composing together. You can chat and interact. You can’t, though, save your compositions, and each online user can only operate one type of instrument at a time, and if you change your instrument, you lose whatever you have been working on.
The video above best demonstrates the idea, using the Streetfighter II track ‘Ken’s Theme’ as an example.
For more info about the development from a coder perspective, this post gives all the details you need.
Otherwise: http://eightbitbeats.com/
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Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee - Flaming Lips + Prefuse 73
Interesting collaboration released on random coloured vinyl, limited to 2000 copies, released only at Oklahoma City’s Guestroom Records.
This is the opening track of the 4 song EP, and its a glitch rock fuzz bass belter.
The rest of the EP is a bit more ambient and laid back.
You can check out the rest of the tracks over at Pitchfork, where there are 4 YouTube embeds. Alternatively, someone uploaded the MP3s at a file upload site here
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Burial - Ego (New 2011 track)
You may have heard about a Burial / Four Tet / Thom Yorke collaboration.
Well, apparently, this is it, recorded off the radio.
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How poortaste used Tumblr for a special occasion … and made a small profit:
Impressing old people is as easy as:
1) Setup a Tumblr.
2) Print out business cards with instructions on how to send picture messages to the tumblr.
3) Handing out said business cards at the beginning of the wedding (works for all events).
4) Help Aunty save the tumblr email address as a contact in her phone.
5) ???
6) Profit.The finished result is really awesome. A ton of candid photos from throughout the entire weekend from a lot of different perspectives. I am sure the professional photos will come out great, but they won’t capture the VIBE, which in my opinion is just as important in remembering the night(s).
For less than $20 and 20 minutes of my time, I was able to give the bride and groom a really unique way of remembering their wedding.
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“Madlib called and said we should start getting to work on our album.. If he answers the phone next week, that’s huge progress!” — Tweet from Flying Lotus - possible collaboration album = potential greatness -
Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All Demos (via bigkif)
An important part of computer technology history:
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
The presentation is a bit slow and long (90 minutes), but this is the first time technology such as the mouse, the computer file, video conferencing, online collaboration, and hypertext were introduced publicly …. in 1968!
There are nine parts to the above YouTube playlist, but if you would prefer a condensed, visual overview ,there is this 5 minute video by SmeagolStudios
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Part of the Thru You Project, where YouTube instrumentalism is remixed to create something new.
