prosthetic knowledge
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The Art of Projection Mapping: John Ensor Parker at TEDx NYU Poly
Interesting 15 minute video discusses, from an artist’s point of view, a brief history of technology, art, and culture, and how that leads into the practice of Projection Mapping. Video embedded below:
As our knowledge of the natural world exponentially increases, so does our perception of reality. Scientific and Technological developments affect us as individuals and as a collective species. At TEDxNYU Poly, John Ensor Parker discusses how the art media of projection mapping can be used to generate needed dialogue on the topic.
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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.
You can check all of this out at Rhizome here
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BBC Radio 4: In Our Time - Game Theory
45 minute radio show discusses the subject:
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. First formulated in the 1940s, the discipline entails devising ‘games’ to simulate situations of conflict or cooperation. It allows researchers to unravel decision-making strategies, and even to establish why certain types of behaviour emerge.
Some of the games studied in game theory have become well known outside academia - they include the Prisoner’s Dilemma, an intriguing scenario popularised in novels and films, and which has inspired television game shows. Today game theory is seen as a vital tool in such diverse fields as evolutionary biology, economics, computing and philosophy.
More information can be found here
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100 years of the Computer Art Scene
UPDATE: I’ve uploaded the talk onto SoundCloud for better sharing.
Recording of a talk from NOTACON 2004 discusses the history of computing and creativity. It isn’t for for everyone, but anyone with an interest in this area could find this interesting:
SYNOPSIS: Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene.
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Alright, so, basically, the name of the talk is "100 Years of the Computer Art Scene". That was a marketing trick, but what are you going to do. Technology, as far as man has always approached it, incrementally over time, it gets better and better, but the biggest problem you have is adaptation. How do you convince people that they were doing things this way, and now they want to do it this way? And because your big metal honking clanking thing is much better than however they were doing it by hand. Interestingly, if you really look at the history of communication technologies, and later computer technologies, its kind of surprising how much art actually plays a point into it. In terms of this narrative, we're going to start somewhere around telegraphs, which is a little ways in, but what're you going to do. Telegraph technology basically involved using wires to send dashes and dots indicating some sort of code that could be decoded over long distances, therefore allowing you to send messages basically instantaneously, an amazing difference for that time. Where as before, when Abraham Lincoln was elected, there were parts of the country that didn't know what their new president looked like for 3 or 4 months. And didn't know he had won for weeks or months, simply because the communication wasn't there. So the addition of this instantaneous traffic changes the world, markedly.You can download the talk from Archive.Org here, and a text file transcript of the talk can be found here
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Golan Levin Q&A - Recorded with Kinect
Programming artist Golan Levin created a video Q&A with Reddit on the subject of future technology related to experimental cinema. Interestingly, the whole response was captured with Micosoft Kinect technology, giving a Minority Report-like hologram feel, moving the data around to give alternative angles.
Here is the video, embedded below:
More background information can be found at Creative Applications
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Turning Data Into Art
UPDATE: Apologies for the video not working - you can see it here
10 minute talk by new media artist Jason Salavon for Chicago Ideas Week. Jason is responsible for works such as Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades (normalized) and The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1 [pictured above, which is the film Titanic broken down into frames, which each frame reduced to it’s average colour - it’s discussed at the beginning of the talk].
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Where good ideas come from - TED Talk from Steven Johnson
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.
This came up from responses to a Brain Pickings post on social media and historic examples, and it reminded me of something I read somewhere that alcohol and pubs / bars were one of the earliest forms of social media. Interesting to see how these types of places have a much more significance to progress and stimulation (no pun intended) that they had.
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The Big Lebowski Live Cast Reunion
Embedded above.
UPDATE - this is a pre-talk for the main event, which is on in an hour and a half (whoops - not used to American time zones - sorry)
This should be entertaining for anyone who enjoys the film, as many of the cast will be present - I look forward to what John Goodman has to say :)
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The Big Lebowski Live Cast Reunion This should start in about 5 minutes of posting.
This should be entertaining for anyone who enjoys the film, as many of the cast will be present - I look forward to what John Goodman has to say :)
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Roseanne Barr was a sitcom star, a creator and a product, the agitator and the abused, a domestic goddess and a feminist pioneer. That was twenty years ago. But as far as she’s concerned, not much has changed.
Very interesting read on celebrity culture, and the struggles of someone trying to do something different, even by todays standards. And she secretly loved John Goodman.
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Stop the Hysteria by TheDanielKahl (via @midorihirano)
I am relating a message from the people of Japan to new services around the world — STOP THE HYSTERIA. You are causing panic amongst the foreign community in Japan by exaggerating the situation at the Fukushima #1 Nuclear Power Plant. Listen to your own nuclear experts, and get back the job of reporting on the humantarian crisis evolving in North Japan.
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“Until the rise of the coffee house, you had a whole population that was drunk all day.” — Steven Berlin Johnson talking at TED (sourced via Brainpicker) -
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com (via notational)
About this talk
Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
About Jane McGonigal
Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how. Full bio and more links
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Tom Shannon: The painter and the pendulum
About this talk
TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with John Hockenberry reveals how nature’s forces — and the onset of Parkinson’s tremors — interact in his life and craft.
About Tom Shannon
Tom Shannon’s mixed-material sculpture seems to levitate — often it actually does — thanks to powerful magnets and clever arrangements of suspension wire. He designed the TED Prize trophy. Full bio and more links
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Making maps to fight disaster, build economies - Lalitesh Katragadda (TED Talks)
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.
Stunning example of crowdsourcing.
