Lewitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art
This one seemed worth reposting, 39 years later. My replica is stashed from this secondary source. Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt (1969) Conceptual artists are mystics rather than...
View ArticleMachine vision vs. rice, pineapple, nuts
Reading the questions posted to the OpenCV (Open-Source Computer Vision) mailing list is one of my small pleasures in life. My favorite inquiries are those which combine charmingly flawed English, an...
View ArticleVernacular Computation
After ART AND CODE, I’ve got the conference bug, and am pondering the possibility of putting together another symposium… this time on the intersection of software studies and vernacular computing...
View ArticlePraxis, Theoria, Poesis
I’m grateful to Stewart Butterfield for making me aware of this quote by John Adams, which I here repost from his Sylloge blog, for the purposes of my own reference and safekeeping: I must study...
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Happy New Year 2010! (Interactive Card)
Dear friends – please enjoy our interactive new year’s card for 2010!
View ArticleGrateful for a name
In 1985, a research unit was formed at Carnegie Mellon called the “Center for Arts and Technology”. The interdisciplinary spirit was in the air — it was the same year that the Media Laboratory was...
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Computational Gastronomy
It can be a rewarding and entertaining exercise to think through the implications of prepending “computational” to various subjects of consideration — particularly those fields traditionally considered...
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Happy New Year 2014!
Warm new year’s wishes from Golan, Andrea, Zen & Roxy! Animated GIF built with Processing.
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Response to an Invitation
Hello ████████████████, Thank you for this kind invitation to present at ████████████████. I looked at your 2013 web site, and I counted 8 women out of 60 speakers, or 13%. I regret to say that I no...
View ArticleSome Objections to Interactive Computer Art
Below is a list of objections to interactive computer-based art (e.g. such as the kind I create). These are notes I scribbled during a conversation over beers with the great David Rokeby sometime in...
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