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24/10/11 I found today’s lecture by the new head of post-graduate studies at Glasgow School of Art, Tim Collins, inspiring and astounding. Tim, in collaboration with his wife, Reiko Goto, forges a discourse between art and nature. His projects, ‘Nine Mile Run’ and ‘3 Rivers 2nd Nature’, both of which intervened with large-scale environmental concerns […]
Software Art After Programming Richard Wright In his article first published in MUTE magazine in 2004, Richard Wright reminds the reader of a problem first posed in the 1960’s, ‘Can the computer make art?’ His response is to reflect upon the early computer artists as ‘intrepid explorers setting out to cross a new continent without […]
Francis Halsall Systems Aesthetics and the System as Medium http://systemsart.org/halsall_paper.html In his essay Halsall set out to look at the ways in which a system can be conceived as an artistic medium. He discusses 3 main points: The historical perspective, the contemporary discursive perspective and the contemporary practice perspective. His argument is that the concept […]
Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s Edward A. Shanken http://www.artexetra.com/CyberArtExc.html A dream of technical control and of instant information conveyed at unthought-of velocities haunted Sixties culture. The wired, electronic outlines of a cybernetic society became apparent to the visual imagination—an immediate future … drastically modernized by the impact of computer science. It was […]
Early British Computer –Generated Art Film Program notes for an event held 07/03/2006 The event was supported by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Birkbeck University of London and held in conjunction with the Computer Arts Society. The event was a screening of rare and little-known works from the beginnings of British computer […]
Has all that is Solid Melted into Air: Experience, Value and Passion in Modernity and After In a recent lecturer I attended, Dr. David Sweeney discussed the representation of modernity as a break from traditional pasts, where individuals seek new experiences that shape society and a new world. In reviewing the lecture, I came across […]
Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia Software Art 11 – 12 October 2011, the Lighthouse, Glasgow The event was presented in association with the University of Glasgow’s Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute This event, which I attended on 11th October sought to share and extend the body of knowledge on the preservation of complex objects, […]
Reflecting on Roland Barthes and the section ‘Myth Today’ within the book Mythologies (Barthes: 1957). Barthes believes semiotics to work on 2 levels and that sign systems can produce a second tier, or ‘metalanguage’, of meaning. I also found that semiotics is closely tied to structuralism. In addition, I learned that Barthes sees myths as […]
