examples of things we take for equivalents: handwriting and text conversation and telephone film and video rolodexes and contact lists calendars and planners a person and a medical trace (monitors, charts, bills) the place and its map handwriting and type relationships and analysis places and information graphics vanilla beans and vanillin (a chemical equivalent) and [...]
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(Film-DVD) =
(Film-DVD) = is a 35mm film-loop installation that will demonstrate the actual difference between DVD and film image quality. The images will be created literally from color, motion and sound information discarded by DVD compression. DVDs are popular for their convenience and low cost rather than their fidelity to the films they represent. Industry engineers [...]
1927
Henri Bergson, élan locomotif, cloud chamber, native plants (and foreign interlopers [like me]), neurogenesis, neuropathologies, and worlds buried by history.
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process and product, fundamental-styled
“The truth is that nobody is in charge. It is the hardest thing for human beings to get used to, but the world is full of intricate, cleverly designed and interconnected systems that do not have control centres.” Genome, by Matt Ridley p 151 Sounds like an argument from the creationists, but why not? This [...]
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pixels as peeps
I asked my class last week why carburetors could not be made out of pigeons. You see it follows that if a computer could be made out of any collection of objects that maintain state (position, color, size, weight, etc.) then why can’t things in the real world be assembled with the same kind of [...]
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contact printing from monitor
This is a prototype image showing a process I’ve been developing over the past year. Prepare several short clips of video, cue them up, then tape some photographic paper to the monitor. Then darken the room and expose the paper to the video, allowing the light frmo the video to accumulate on the paper. Expose [...]
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sharks series
Andy Kopra has blessed the CIM with his presence this spring (2005). He taught a class called Picture Programming that extended the ideas he hatched while visiting last year. This year I used the ideas to make a short procedural video with watery sharks. Here are a few stills. These frames (and their 447 brethern) [...]
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sharks
Hopelessly obscured by procedural postscripizing, you can see the sharks with just a little prompting. You can see them, right??
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Mannix Roadster
Customized 425 1966 front-wheel drive convertible Oldsmobile Toronado (License No. UQW-477) seen on the detective drama MANNIX/CBS/1967-75. Designed by George Barris (a.k.a. “King of the Kustomizers”), the Mannix Roadster perfectly complements the action-filled lifestyle of private detective Joe Mannix (Mike Connors). Driven during the 1967-68 season, this silver and dark gray roadster featured a black [...]