openframeworks/openFrameworks - GitHub CreativeApplications.Net | Apps That Inspire... s Free Texture Library Buy Every Texture Buy every texture on this website for only $33. Bulk Downloading Please don't try to download every texture, our server will automatically block you. The download limit is 20 textures every day (per IP address - you may be sharing this with others). If you need lots of textures, please buy them. Questions Please see the FAQ or email Will. Authors William Smith, Mayang Murni Adnin. Other Projects Will and Mayang's other projects include CommodityModels.com, Will's PhD blog.
e - c l o u d Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness | ISEA Thank you to everyone who made ISEA2012 an amazing success! "'Machine Wilderness'...conveyed a consciousness of consequence, a sense that new technologies can yield earth-changing results, that artistic vision can drive such technologies to such results, and that usefulness, and especially useful transformation, is a form of beauty." - Peter Frank, Huffington Post In September, 2012, the worlds of art, science and technology came together in Albuquerque, New Mexico for a six day, international conference, which kicked off a season-long exhibition and series of public programs around the region. ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness was the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art. The title “Machine Wilderness” referenced the New Mexico region as an area of rapid growth and technology within vast expanses of open land, and presented visions for how technology and the natural world can coexist to support life on Earth. ISEA2012 Merchandise now available online!
Paul Villinski artwork > birds and butterflies birds and butterflies I am drawn to humble, yet evocative materials; in this case, crushed beer cans from the streets of New York - every one of them once raised to someone’s lips. My process of “recycling” them into images of butterflies is a quiet physical meditation, a yoga of tin snips and files and fingers.read more: • on beer can butterflies As the butterflies alight on the walls of my studio, they lead into an exploration of formal, painterly issues. Often, they want to gather into a certain shape, or fly off on a particular tangent, and I let them. They function both as marks in these abstract, three-dimensional “paintings,” and as actors in curious narratives. Butterflies seem impossible. ^ less
Is Hip-Hop Making You Stupid? The Hip Hop Word Count Breaks It Down What can rap lyrics teach us about our culture? Tahir Hemphill, a lifelong hip-hop enthusiast, has spent the past four years compiling an “ethnographic database” of hip-hop lyrics to answer that question. Comprising more than 40,000 songs spanning from 1979 to present day, Hemphill’s exhaustive archive makes up the project Hip-Hop Word Count, a searchable rap resource that analyzes lyrics and assigns various metadata to them, such as time, geographic location, word count, syllable count, and readability. Next week, Hemphill’s project will be one of some 100+ works included in the MoMA’s much anticipated “Talk To Me” exhibition (curated by Paola Antonelli). We spoke with Hemphill over email to find out more about how Hip-Hop Word Count got started, how the project is developing and where he hopes to take it in the future: The Creators Project: Your day job is as a creative director and strategic planner at an advertising agency—how did you make the transition to artist?
Newz On Fire connections On Twitter last night, I came across something fascinating, via Maria at Brainpickings. (Always a source of fascinating bits.) It was an amazing visualization of the interactions of characters in the Iliad, and how they change throughout the book, by Argentinian designer Santiago Ortiz. Do click here to view the stream in all its interactive glory. I thought immediately of another graphic. The thinking behind the two charts is quite similar, don’t you think? Then there was this other chart which I’ve shared with you, about Avengers characters and how their “interestingness” changes over the course of the series. What’s compelling to me is that T came up with these ideas on his own. Mostly he’s just having fun. More evidence of how the world is changing? In her fantastic book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, Cathy Davidson writes, How do we prepare our kids for that?
Bernie Lubell´s talk at Ars Electronica Yeah! The return of the ars electronica posts. To be honest with you, this is going to be a messy time on wmmna. There are still tons of stories to write about Conflux, my little trips to Chelsea, to Beijing and there are a few more reports in store. Right, here's the notes i took during the talk given by Bernie Lubell as a winner of the Interactive Art category. Erkki Huhtamo, member of the jury this year, introduced the forum by explaining how people had been complaining that the interactive component of the winning works had not always been obvious over the past few years. There's no electronics involved in Lubell`s installation, just wood and pneumatic components. For Lubell, the winning work Conservation of Intimacy is all about having people physically involved, the body is part of the installation. The elaborate wood construction is modeled on a computer; human beings assume the role of the processors. Marey is famous for his research on chronophotography. Marey’s Sphygmograph
STILL/INSTALLED | WILDERNESS MACHINE The Wilderness Machine 2010 The Wilderness Machine is the physical extension of the online piece The Wilderness Downtown. The machine generates postcards from the handwritten notes created by viewers of the interactive film. Each postcard is a person writing to their younger selves. The machine uses a suction arm to transfer a blank postcard to a metal podium where a mechanical pen is programmed to reproduce the original pen strokes. Then, a claw arm tosses the postcard out of a slot in its Plexiglas casing. The Wilderness Machine is now programmed to tweet, one postcard per day.