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Data Visualization And Corporate Information Culture

Create Digital Motion » Visualizing Data, and Data as Art

Regine at We Make Money Not Art has a fantastic overview summarizing a recent workshop of presenting data and numbers visually […]
What happens when data artists and interaction designers collide with VJs and digital musicians? I'm excited to find out.

Systems Art – Not Quite The Belaqua Pose – A talk in three voices

[…] a corporatist knowledge culture which has flattened literature, art and the rest of the so-called Humanities into information […]

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Generative Art Projects

Minara Buffers Working

MINARA> (setq buf (make-buffer-from-file "./minara.minara"))

; in: LAMBDA NIL
; SETQ
;
; caught WARNING:
; undefined variable: BUF

;
; caught WARNING:
; This variable is undefined:
; BUF
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 2 WARNING conditions
#
MINARA> (buffer-to-string buf)
";; The minara logotype as a minara file
;; Copyright (c) 2004 Rob Myers
;; Generated from an Illustrator EPS file using search & replace...

(set-colour 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.0)

(path-begin)
(move-to 5.0 5.0)
(line-to 5.0 395)
(line-to 6.0 395)
(line-to 6.0 5.0)
(path-end)

(path-begin)
(move-to 5.0 395)
(line-to 5.0 396)
(line-to 596.0 396)
(line-to 596.0 395)
(path-end)

etc...

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Free Culture

Dennis Hollingsworth: Artists in Hiding

Dennis Hollingsworth: Artists in Hiding

This image can get you killed in some parts of this world. The truth of this statement should be enough to compel a closing of ranks in the entire art community to defend the freedom of the artist who created it. But much of our art world is silent about it, hiding in plain sight.

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Free Culture

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Artist Rights


Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Artist Rights

Frankly, the only way to police the net for infringement is to throttle it. And thats exactly what the proactive policing that many artists are calling for would do. […]

Not only is this the height of arrogance ” “Shut up about your life and everything important to you so that I can Make Art” ” its also major bad news for artists.

Cory is on fine form explaining the paradoxes of being seduced by snake-oil promises of “protection” in this article for SF Writers’ magazine Locus.

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Free Culture

Sharing Is Sexy | open source porn laboratory // sex positive collective

Sharing Is Sexy | open source porn laboratory // sex positive collective

open source porn laboratory // sex positive collective

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike License.

Yes, it really is erotica photography, don’t click if you don’t like that sort of thing. Yes, it really is BY-NC-SA, which is a shame, maybe they can be persuaded to switch to BY-SA.

I’ve often used Free And Open Porn as a humorous inspiration for Free Culture ideas, and Crosbie mentioned it in a comment on Zeroinfluencer’s blog the other day. There must be something in the air…

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Free Culture

Please Sign DBD’s Open Letter to Viviane Reding

Click Here To Sign a Letter to Viviane Reding, European Union commissioner for information society and media

Yesterday, Viviane Reding, European Union commissioner for information society and media, issued a report sanctioning a “transparent” DRM framework for the EU. This irresponsible and senseless report comes just a day before Sony BMG announced that they would join Warner Music Group, EMI, and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group in selling DRM-free music downloads in the United States.

Help us take action now by reading and signing our open letter. Our signed letter will be sent to the commission’s office, and will add weight to the dozens of phone calls that will be made next week to her office demanding that she retract her statement and letting her know that we oppose any attempt by the EU to sanction, promote, or endorse DRM technology platforms.

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Free Culture

New Loca Tracks

Loca Records // News

Click above for MP3s of three new tracks from Meme and Ward. Albums to follow.

Meme seem to be going hip hop?

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Aesthetics Reviews Satire

Divisive Sci Fi

Mars Attacks!

This Tim Burton film with Tom Jones fighting (well, fleeing) early CGI martians made more money in the UK than in America on its first release. It’s knowing kitsch with an enemy that says one thing and does another. Tories will hate the former, Guardianistas will find the latter as incomprehensible in art as they do in real life.

Starship Troopers

An hilarious parody of militarism and media body fascism with amazing aliens and Doogie Howser MD as a Herr Flick lookalike psychic. This tends to out Buffy fans, who hate all the beautiful ubermenchen getting eaten.

Alien 3

This troubled entry in the Alien series divides audiences into those who think it is the worst possible end to the character of Ripley and the whole idea of the Alien series imaginable and those who made the mistake of giving Alien 4 a chance.

Mad Max III

Where did all the corn come from? And where do they get all the food for the pigs?

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Free Culture

The Libre Labyrinth

The excellent Greg London has a new book on Free Culture and Free Software out:

I just uploaded a first draft of my new book,
“Libre Labyrinth” to my website.

While working out some issues with what an
Open Hardware license would need to be comparable
to the GNU-GPL, I came up with a Venn Diagram
that describes how copyright, patents, functionality,
DRM, and other concepts can affect a FLOS project.

It turns out that this diagram ends up being a
completely objective way to describe, compare,
and contrast any sort of license, without resorting
to subjective terms such as “Free” or “Libre” or
“Open Source”.

The book also goes into a brief discussion of scalability
of a project, which is independent of the license
you choose for your project. The section on scalability
discusses issues such as Brook’s Law, where it does and
does not apply, parallel versus sequential tasks, and
the amount of overhead added to a project per person added.

It’s about 80 pages and is licensed CC-BY

You can download it here:

http://www.greglondon.com/libre/

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Aesthetics Generative Art Projects

Designing Problems are for the Lazy « Zero influence

It may seem dull, but understanding how a carrot grows is essential to a farmer. Understanding how Photoshop works is not necessary to use it, but to get the best from the system-as-application, knowing more about the under lying code is more important than understanding complementary colours. That's why Rob's Minara is such a smart way to think about the relationship between design and software.
Designing Problems are for the Lazy « Zero influence

Dave talks about The Joneses and design in general and kindly mentions Minara along the way. I should point out that despite a tutor’s once confusing my choice of some horribly coloured paper with a choice of horrible colours I do understand complimentary colours OK. It’s orange I have trouble with. ;-)Minara 2 / Minara 0.1 / Orlando is progressing nicely. Common Lisp is a wonderful language to work with.