Electric sheep

· Andre Hoffmann · Art · 1 comment

Automatically generated psychedelic animations (called sheep), rendered with quicktime afterwards and distributed through a network of electric sheep users over the net; named after Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids dream of electronic sheep" which later became the movie Blade Runner, btw. Screensaver for Mac, Linux, Windows. Paper: The electric sheep screen-saver: a case study …

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Esoteric Programming Languages

· Andre Hoffmann · Art Technology

What? you might ask yourself while thinking of the notion esoteric in combination with programming languages . How can that two fit together? Well, life is full of contradictions which very well might end up in a dialectic conclusion, as you will see in this example. In the normal case, programming languages claim to be …

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ORIGINS

· Frieder Nake · Art Theory · 3 comments

Nobody really believes anymore that anything in the world could have a definite and precise date when it started. As soon as we define a phenomenon as “new" by giving it a name, and talking about it in particular ways, we discover its pre-cursors. Digital media need digital technology to be what they are. Digital …

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tagtool

· Walter Jenner · Art Uncategorized

check out this video (done www.tagtool.org) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4yxmy_tagtool-visual-beta-test-iii_creation UPDATE: I want to build this piece of hardware and i'm looking for folks! So if you find this tool interesting drop me a line . And even if you don't want to build it, you might help - i am looking for an broken VHS player or …

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