Monthly Archives: April 2006

imagine this– gather a collection of magazine pictures of the future (real estate booster materials, articles from scientific american and popular science put a macro lens on the bolex and set up a copy stand tell a story about what she thought the west would be when she grew up look for parallels, patsy needs [...]

If we really want to understand innovation and collaboration, we have to explore shared space. Consider Watson & Crick: how many experiments did they do to confirm DNA’s double helix? Zero. Not one. They built models based on other people’s data. These models were their shared space.Their collaboration in that shared space powered their Nobel [...]

in mesh_ms, messages move through the network towards their destination host by pausing at intermediate hosts before attaching themselves to communication signals usually calls). at each temporary host the message is asked whether or not it has gotten any closer to its destination before joining another signal. the rule may be always go right or [...]

Computers have emerged as contemporary society’s defining technology. Increasingly we think of the world in terms of computers. We use machine terms to describe themselves and the world. Computers have proven themselves a potent force. Computers are hosts for transcendent content, and this falls squarely into the domain of the artist. How can artists meaningfully [...]

We tend to use perspective as a way to prove something about the world, and also to structure our representations with a consistency and a system that exists outside of subjective experience. Perspective is a good organizing medium, democratic, sincere. Generally when the system is used it is used completely. Even things like cameras are [...]

cv april 2006 statement Computers and digital media are the latest technical innovations to make radical changes in the way we understand the world. In the way that photography displaces memory and cinema approximates dreaming, technology mediates our personal communications. Artists have an important role to play in shaping the way that this mediation is [...]

One of the things that’s really clever about the representation of the human genome is that it makes a static representation of a dynamic system. This challenges both science (which has been traditionally associated with static representations) and our assumptions about people (how can anything so dynamic be represented with letters?). all representation systems are [...]

Francis Galton built up images of common traits he felt would be useful in profiling criminal types. Gait studies propose to do the same thing, and facial recognition isn’t too far behind. [Maybe we need to provide essential forms, core traits that may be mapped into non-hierarchical structures?] But for this project, tape negative or [...]

steganography:: the art of hiding information by embedding messages within other seemingly harmless messages. how might you embed messages in surveillance video? use it as a carrier wave, modulating the signal’s amplitude or frequency embedding information in the image humanment, ie: null ciphers a codec: embedding a message that emerges on decompression, ie: invisible ink [...]