Preparing an archive of the not yet..
It's been tempting to blast out all these blogs with everybody's new best LLM ChatGPT but thus far I have restricted myself to experimenting with ...
Re/Discovering Diffraction
As I attempt to gather my thoughts on this week’s topic, I’m sat in a bar. The music in the background has just flipped over ...
(Investigative) Aesthetics
I’ve discussed the work of Forensic Architecture earlier in this blog, and lately have been reading Investigative Aesthetics (by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman). This ...
If (!knowledge) { thisPost.read(); }
If this blog was a film, this post would form the confusing info-dump that a time travelling character is shown early on, but only makes ...
VR experience “We live in an Ocean of Air” – reviewed by a guy who won’t shut up about the new Avengers film.
--
** Warning. This incredibly serious review is completely, 100% filled to the brim with spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War. If you have no knowledge of ...
Ghosts in the Machine / Voices in the Synthesiser
A lovely reading this week introduced us to post-phenomenology, a wide ranging topic that is only just sinking in now as I approach my research ...
Pizza and peaches
Here’s a bombshell - 93% of tweets involving the peach emoji are not actually related to the peach at all!
I know! I’m sorry, I ...
Research Assignment 02 – Proposal
-
Some turpentine in a jar. Brushes dropped in, pressed down, fanned out, bristles releasing residue from before. Swish them around, bump them down again, draw ...
Critical Technical Practice: “Just Do it”
Disobedient Electronics, edited by Garnet Hertz, was this week’s reading that introduced us to the topic of computational art as a critical technical practice.
It introduced ...
Theory and Process – Projection Mapping
As part of our creative coding course we had a projection mapping assignment in which we created real-time graphics to be shown over real-world geometry. ...
Stelarc’s head and the Uncanny Valley
“What figures of the human are materialized in these technologies? What are the circumstances through which machines can be claimed, or experienced, as humanlike? And ...
Digital Witnessing – Forensic Architecture @ Tate Britain
This year’s Turner art prize was unique as each finalist was a film. The entries were Naeem Mohaiemen: Tripoli Cancelled, BRIDGIT by Charlotte Prodger, Autoportrait ...
Algorithms in Nature – Computing with slime
I'm fascinated with the way that elegant solutions to computational problems often both:
- Pop up unpredictably in nature, often where you would least expect and
- ...