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Personal

Oh, The Horror!

The guitar on “Dominion” by The Sisters of Mercy is the same as the first notes of “The Big Sky” by Kate Bush.
Oh, the horror!

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Aesthetics

OooOOoOooOh!

http://www.oxotower.co.uk/Paul_Catherall.html

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Free Culture

CC Star Charts

Via Boing Boing :

http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1052

BY-NC-SA. NC, grumble, grumble.

Star charts are probably at the limit of what you can copyright, being mere collections of facts, but this is a selective chart (cutting off at magnitude 7).

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Generative Art

Whatever Happened To AI?

Asks Newscientist, via Mindhacks:

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/04/new_scientist_on_the.html

Anyone who thinks AI is dead hasn’t played a computer game, watched news reports form warzones, or used a credit card recently. And they’re certainly not a chess player.

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Generative Art

Inkscape Scripting

Page on scripting Inkscape in Python:

http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/

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Aesthetics

Art & Language

Show on now, another in May:

Now They Are Surrounded

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Free Culture

Stay Free

Article on Free Software for digital artists:

Stay Free.

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Free Culture

Canto

Canto, at Remix Reading :

Canto (For Evie)

Canto (For Gabrielle)

Canto (For Liam)

Canto (For Liam, Version)

Canto (For Me)

Canto (For Tom)

I’ll upload the images to Ourmedia and to this site later. The source image comes from Remix Reading, so I’m uploading there first.

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Generative Art

MTAA Software Art

http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/aiotd_art_by_computers_for_computers.html

“Two software programs are created. Program A creates ?art data? which is transmitted to program B. Program B is programmed in such a way that it has aesthetic criteria with which it evaluates Program A?s art data transmissions. The human witness doesn?t view the art data, but Program B responds to the art data in a way that is discernible by the human witness. “

Kinda like a negative Turing test. A guy at Middlesex did unseen computer art before I was there, but this is a step beyond that. The producer/consumer pair reminds me of ae from rob-art, which was based on ideas from Algorithmic Aesthetics.

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Free Culture

Lessig & Tweedy Talk

Via Lessig’s blog:

http://www.campusprogress.org/features/228/art-is-not-a-loaf-of-bread