Make A frequently-mentioned DIY site http://makezine.com/ Sound Generator Not intended as such, this mouse-over menu generates electronic sounds that could be picked up via Audacity or other tool http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/intro/selector.html Donna Haraway article A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html Bruce Mazlish book The Fourth Discontinuity: the co-evolution of humans and machines http://books.google.com Wired Magazine article Top Five Disruptive Music Technologies http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/top-5-disruptiv.html RobotDraw video "If you click on the robot, you can see an mpeg of the little fella drawing. I destroyed the robot after the illustration. I felt kind of bad." --John Maeda http://www.maedastudio.com/2003/robotill/index.php?category=all&next=1998/realm&prev=2004/creativecode&this=robot_draw Processing (a programming language) Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain. http://www.processing.org/ Generator.x Art from Code Generator.x is a curatorial platform exploring the use of generative strategies and software processes in digital art, architecture and design. It focuses on a new generation of artists and designers who embrace code as a way of producing new forms of creative expression. http://www.generatorx.no/category/tools-code/ NodeBox NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.It is essentially a learning environment and an automation tool. http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home Graffiti Research Lab Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication http://graffitiresearchlab.com/ Creativity Tools A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. http://www.freesound.org/index.php
In the category of alternatives to linear, keyboard driven ways of interacting with computing resources
Also in the category of alternative interfaces
This is an interesting tool for digitally creating David Hockney-esque images composed of polaroid-like snapshots.
Mimi Ito is a researcher doing interesting work on (among other things) the rise of so-called amateur production in the digital era. Is creativity being distributed more evenly throughout society as a direct result of digital media?
Thich Nhat Hahn: There is a Cloud Floating in this Sheet of Paper This is an excerpt from TNH's bood Being Peace that illustrates a Buddhist notion of nondualism.
Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
Suggested reading on non-dualism from our fearless leader
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney is published by Thames & Hudson. Hockney argues that the old masters were also masters at using (and in effect concealing the use of) the technologies of their day
Tools that may be perfectly suited to the needs of our course Video-demo: video-demo
Google Mashup Editor Still in beta-testing, requires getting in line to participate in the beta-testing, and may require some knowledge of programming, but worth noting at this point as a possibly useful avenue to explore and track.
This site allows for the building and playing of dynamic structural models
Freeware glitch music and sound design authoring suite (mac only)
Scream Tracker is a versatile multi-track digital sequencer created by members of Finland's Future Crew (FC), legendary in the PC demoscene.
Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community
Kohina is a free "just for fun" web stream, streaming the classic 8/16 bit computer, arcade, and console music of our misspent youth, as well as the latest scene music from the platforms that remain active.
Site on Fragmentation and Indeterminacy A fascinating site I ran into while looking for info on Pataphysics
An Interesting collage assignment from MIT
A Hirshhorn Museum show on synaesthesia: "Visual Music" http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/description.asp?ID=31
Wireless Sensors the Lego Way http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9880268-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Todd Winkler, a professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, and Mikael Fernstrom, a lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland, have choreographed performance pieces in which the dancers are rigged up with small wireless sensors that can alter the music and the images on screens. When the dancers move, changes occur in response. In other words, it's an arty version of the Wii. (Here is an academic paper (PDF) on the experiment.)
Poetry Machine installation diagram http://www.alpha60.de/poetrymachine/katalogtext_en.html
Media-Art-Net: Poetry Machine described http://mkn.zkm.de/works/poetry-machine-1-0/
The Baudelaire 7000 Poetry Machine http://www.bonkworld.org/index.php?action=show&id=97
Another Poetry Machine (these things are evidently popular) http://www.poetrymachine.net/index.php
Activated Googlism Poems http://www.leevilehto.net/google/googlism.asp
The Icon Poet http://www.iconpoet.com/index.html
Zhura Online Screenwriting Software
How to make a touch-screen with a cardboard box, a piece of glass, and a webcam http://www.hacknmod.com/displayMOD.php?hack=1340
DJ Spooky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky Joe's generative text manipulator suggestion: http://www.akirarabelais.com/software/software.html Hauntology and Such: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008535.html |  Brian Dewanightful Dewanatrons Dewanatrons are bread-box-sized pieces of art. They look like something from a 1950s science-fiction movie, complete with levers, dials and ignition keys. Dewan's tiny 19th-century house is cluttered with variations on these devices, along with at least 10 keyboards. He uses and re-uses the parts to create more unusual music-making machines. One he calls the Courtesy Modulator. There's also the Alphatron and the Vigilometer. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96382116 The Ecology of Eden, The Recording Angel, and other works Evan Eisenberg's website and links to publications. http://www.evaneisenberg.com/ Haiku Generator Koan Software You can find a 30 day trial of the sequel to Koan - Noatikl here: Distributed Cognition Distributed cognition is a theory of psychology developed in the mid 1980s by Edwin Hutchins. Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky (cf activity theory) it emphasizes the social and physical aspects of cognition. It is a framework (not a method) that involves the co-ordination between individuals and artifacts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_cognition  |
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