prosthetic knowledge
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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.
More at Rhizome here
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D-L Alvarez
Early work from artist that has produced pencil-shaded digital drawings by hand, based on nostalgic scenes.
Selected work colections in this style are Closet, Rise, and Beau Soleil.
You can check the rest of the artist’s work here
[PS - I know some of the works have been featured around Tumblr before, but I still think it is worth another look]
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Nam June Paik’s 80th Anniversary : Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback
Poster for an event at the Nam June Paik Art Centre on the 20th July 2012, the date that would be his 80th birthday:
For Paik, ‘nostalgia’ was not a mere yearning for the past. It was rather a practical act of ruminating on his dreams and passions for the future that had been impossible to realize in the past. Similarly, the exhibition wishes to go beyond a conventional retrospective of the artist. Unfolding ‘the future of the past’ that Paik envisioned, we hope this exhibition will become a convivial feast of science, technology, philosophy, arts and culture all together.
Paik tried to incorporate the potential values of cybernetics, robotics and informatics for humans into art. His unusual view of the world was not that man and nature would devastate each other due to scientific technology, but that man, machine, and nature would be able to come together. We believe that all contemporary artists participating in this exhibition would also have a sense of community with a strong nostalgia for this world view of Paik’s. -
Endearing Tumblr blog project featuring submissions of photographs taken when with or receiving the first home computer. Computer nostalgia, and a moment capturing a small yet significant change in computing.
You can follow the Tumblr blog here.
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musicForProgramming(); 04: Compiled by Com Truise
Hour long mix / curation of electronic music with an air of nostalgia:
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Banjomatic
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Silicon Siren
Martin Walker - Armalyte 1 (Edit)
Caravelli & Patrick Vasori - Morse a L’infini
Harry Forbes - Scanner 2
M. Cannone - Sylphides
Boards of Canada - Whitewater
VHS Head - Motions
Oneohtrix Point Never - Grief and Repetition
Syn - 13
Lapti & Nocow - Sirenas (Part 1)
Sarin Sunday - Luh
New Dreams Ltd - Upper Spheres of Consciousness
Vektroid - Walk with me Saturn
Syn - Hoarfrost
Robert Viger - SeasonsYou can get a download link, as well as checking out other mixes in this series here
[Note: The above image isn’t official artwork for the mix, it is Com Truise’s Twitter profile pic]
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Han Solo by hollisbrownthornton
acrylic on canvas
30 x 26 inches
hbt11-07
2011
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Turrican Hologram Sticker via omgbarry
Nostalgia + Desire = WANT!
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This image alone pretty sums up my 7-year-old self - such a huge nostalgia hit.
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ZX81: Small black box of computing desire
Packing a heady 1KB of RAM, you would have needed more than 50,000 of them to run Word or iTunes, but the ZX81 changed everything.
It didn’t do colour, it didn’t do sound, it didn’t sync with your trendy Swap Shop style telephone, it didn’t even have an off switch. But it brought computers into the home, over a million of them, and created a generation of software developers.
Before, computers had been giant expensive machines used by corporations and scientists - today, they are tiny machines made by giant corporations, with the power to make the miraculous routine. But in the gap between the two stood the ZX81.
It wasn’t a lot of good at saving your work - you had to record finished programming onto cassette tape and hope there was no tape warp. It wasn’t even that good at keeping your work, at least if you had the 16K extension pack stuck precariously into the back.One wobble and your day was wasted. But you didn’t have to build it yourself, it looked reassuringly domestic, as if it would be happy sitting next to your stereo, and it sold in WH Smiths, for £69.95.
And how it got its name:
… The name combined the two most futuristic letters in the alphabet with a number that rooted it in the present day - though that doesn’t seem to have been particularly deliberate. The designer Rick Dickinson says they named its predecessor, the previous year’s ZX80, after its processor, the Zilog Z80, with an added X for “the mystery ingredient”.
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“Last year I thought about the first time I traveled through Europe, which was in 1970. When I traveled through Europe, each country had not only its own currency but its own brands of cigarettes, its own everything. That was such a wonderful experience. Each country in Europe was a pocket universe. That’s gone. It’s just gone. They all just have EU stuff and a lot of American stuff and a lot of Japanese stuff. It’s not as charming. But it’s the way it is. I don’t really see how we could have kept it the way it was. I don’t feel nostalgia for what it was. I’ve become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it’s usually attached to something else that’s really, seriously bad. I don’t traffic in nostalgia. We’re becoming a global culture.” -
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Xenon II - Merchant
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Shinobi (via haydiroket) - this just gave me a digital nostalgia reaction - one of my favourites :D
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(wow - nostalgia hit - wanted this bike when i was younger - ended up with a second hand chopper!)
(via computervision)
