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31/03/2004

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

Computer Code as Art Material

In an interview with three artists taking part in a generative art exhibition, one of the artists points out that code could be looked at as being similar in artistic content to any other form of writing:

As it happens in literary practices with language and text, there is a difference in thinking about code as an end in itself, and code as means for something else. In this last case, code is instrumental, and it does not matter if the goal is a word processing program or an exquisite graphic effect, or the control system for an interactive art installation.

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31/03/2004

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

LiTraCon. Some crazy genius has invented concrete that contains fibre optics which transmit light from one side of the block to another. This allows you to see shadows of the outside through walls.

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31/03/2004

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

The Untitled Project imagines a world without words. And Revelation 2.0 does it for websites!

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31/03/2004

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

Seems a lot of attention has being paid to information visualisation using maps recently, such as projects like GeoURL and Zipdecode. Overlaying geographic data onto a map is interesting, but I also like it when this geographic data is combined with local photography to produce a map of an area that can be viewed at different scales through photos of each section.

Similarly, RAW uses photos to create a timeline based map, and Cinema Redux uses photos to create a map of a movie. The notion of a map as a plan of physical space is expanded upon. In a way, I suppose all data visualisation is mapamaking.

Lots more interesting stuff going on at the course page for Information Visualization as Artistic Practice, taught by Golan Levin.

Update: More photo mapping of a city, London this time, in Street Sensation.

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23/03/2004

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Best URL ever: http://del.icio.us/

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