Jack Kerouac trained his ear on the american vernacular. That’s what he told us, but consider these passages from On The Road And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body [...]
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Failure sketches
Here are a couple of quick sketches for Failure: Cameras positioned above each screen shoot the data representation and render the image as well as possible. Gallery visitors interrupt the camera’s path causing data dropouts in the rendered image.
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language as the sixth sense
With John Searle telling me in one ear that the structure of language closely resembles thought, and Noam Chomsky summarizing his ideas on embedded grammars, I’m starting to formulate a strange new take on the world. Add to this the certainty their passionate and well-reasoned demonstrations that there is no split between the mind and [...]
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100% Austen, notes on method
Somebody asked me to describe my method over the weekend. It’s been a long time since I wrote the text generator, but this is what I recall. First you gather the model writing into a database. Guternerg.org provided ASCII transcriptions of the complete works of Jane Austen which I strung end to end in a [...]
“ruby slippers” is now “Lossless”
The title has changed, and we’ve refined our pitch. Here’s what we sent to Linz: Good news, Lossless has been accepted into collision 11! Details to follow.
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signal and media
I’m trying to get a handle on how discrete media (ie: film) is translated to signal. WHat is the history of this? Is discrete media something we can understand? is granular synthesis discrete? what about analog signal, isn’t breaking a signal up into regular clips analogous to frames? When is data a signal? transcoding telecine [...]
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lumpy time
build a light meter that will fire a frame after receiving an appropriate amount of light shoot things with movement we know well watch the movement changes with the amount of light I’m building a prototype sequence now. I want to see what it would do in the following situations: a bright sunny day with [...]
notes on observation 1:: Heinz von Foerster
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics Heinz von Foerster SEHR, volume 4, issue 2: Constructions of the Mind 4 June 1995 Ladies and Gentlemen: I am touched by the generosity of the organizers of this conference, who not only invited me to come to your glorious city of Paris, but also gave me the honor of opening [...]
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>notes on observation 1, Heinz von Foerster
Ethics and Second-Order CyberneticsHeinz von FoersterSEHR, volume 4, issue 2: Constructions of the Mind4 June 1995—- Ladies and Gentlemen:I am touched by the generosity of the organizers of this conference, who not only invited me to come to your glorious city of Paris, but also gave me the honor of opening the plenary sessions with [...]
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