Some materials from this week’s recent class (reading for next week feb 24 at bottom of post):
A rather long and …dramatically staged… video about Tierra, mentioned in the Hayles reading:
The electric tortoise:
Rodney Brooks and Cog:
And for some art- Ligna Radio Ballet:
Jared Tarbell – generative AL artist: http://www.complexification.net
Barney Haynes – robotic “symbionts”: http://www.ultrafuzz.net/symovs.html
Ken Rinaldo: http://kenrinaldo.com/
Assignment + Readings for next week – Feb 24:
Assignment:
- please dedicate some time to thinking about ideas for a venue to present our final class projects – probably a mixture of installations screenings and performances. Any and all ideas are welcome, we’re going to discuss it a bit and try to come up with good candidates so please come prepared.
- Project 1 follow ups – those who didn’t show it this week should bring it for the coming class.
Tech reading:
In Jitter Tutorials, read the first two: “What is a Matrix?”, and “Attributes”.
Readings (pdf’s in portal):
- PDF: Manovich: The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art
- PDF: Youngblood: Expanded Cinema / “The Stargate Corridor” pages 151-156 (optional: the preceding chapter about 2001 a Space Odyssey)
- Art URL: Future Cinema ZKM show – look at artist’s work: http://www.zkm.de/futurecinema/works_e.html
- Art URL: Catalog of Slit-scan art by Golan levin at: http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/