- ARCHIVE / March, 2010
- Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools
A short movie about livecoding, Andrew Sorensen (creator of Impromptu), TOPLAP and other related stuff. If you’re not familiar with this stuff, I’d say it’s the most pleasant introduction to it available at the moment! Thanks Stepher Ramsay for doing this!
- Links to CS 193P iPhone dev lectures
For some reasons the excellent slides and other course materials that used to be available on the CS 193P iPhone Application Development website have been removed.. Too bad: download all the 2009 course (including videos) from here, or check out an exact copy of the site here. If you’re after the 2010 material, there’re plenty […]
- Victim of the Brain
If you’ve heard about the ‘brain in a vat‘ thought experiment but never had the time to read more about it, this movie is a quite pleasant dramatisation of the argument! Victim of the Brain, 1:30:14 – 1988 [wikipedia article] Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based […]
- Tale of tales: artistic interactive games from Belgium
Tale of Tales is a games development studio, founded by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn in Belgium in 2002 (*). The purpose of Tale of Tales is to create elegant and emotionally rich interactive entertainment. We explicitly want to cater to people who are not enchanted by most contemporary computer games, or who wouldn’t mind […]
- Japanese figurative paintings
I went to the National Museum of art in Osaka the other day, and saw a lot of inspiring stuff. The exhibition that was on was titled “Garden of Painting—Japanese Art of the 00s”: To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka’s relocation from Expo Park to Nakanoshima, in the heart […]
- BBC article on interactive art at Goldsmith University (London)
“That’s what makes science great, and technology great and art great,” he said “It’s about playing with ideas. “You try a few things out and see what happens, then try more and more and you come up with something that is genius,” he said. Only by building it, seeing and shaping it, can they truly […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
