September 2004 Archives

Grrrr (Via Lessig’s Blog Comments)

The sad old crashed car analogy has to turn licensing into ownership in order to work. You don't own a recording or a piece of software, you license it (read the small print). It's not like crashing your own car, a physical item that you own, and then demanding a replacement. It's more like hiring a car, it failing, and the hire company refusing to replace it. Or worse, it's like not being allowed to refill your car's tank with petrol. Want to drive any further once you've "broken" your petrol tank? Well, make sure you buy a new car rather than engaging in "car piracy" by visiting a node on a petrol-sharing network.

As for backing up money, I do this regularly. Indeed I use my backup more often than the notes that I use to make the backup. Sometimes I don't even bother with banknotes, I just get the money over the network from someone else. I think people even make a profit from distributing other people's money in this way.
If I remember correctly, these networks are called "banks".
I've long enjoyed the convenience these "banks" provide, but I now realise that they will destroy our society's supply of money. Clearly they must be outlawed immediately and their operators imprisoned to serve as a warning to others who would threaten our economic wellbeing.
"...surely all (good?) art explores (and possibly redefines) the ontology of the artist..... Isn't "style" a corrupted form of ontology?" -tbatt.

Ethics & Aesthetics (via eu-gene)

...both aethetics and ethics are axiomatic restrictions on form. Aesthetics is concerned with pleasure, ethics with pain. (OK, the second sentence isn't true, but it was too good not to type :-) )

I sometimes claim that philosophy is a subset of aesthetics, but anyway. :-)

UNIX As Literature

Commons-Based Production is Not Communism

Petals Around The Rose

Because this is one of the very few misdirection puzzles I've ever figured out :-) :

Petals Around The Rose

And because it's very funny once you get it. I particularly recommend it for anyone you know who's big on mathematics...

Sketchblog

I've moved the sketchbook section to its own blog:

my sketchblog

1969 Sketchbook

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a web site to share catalogues of web links. Here's my page:

http://del.icio.us/robmyers

and my rss feed:

http://del.icio.us/rss/robmyers

See what I come up with each day.:-)

The Computer Art Society

The rebooted Computer Art Society looks like it's off to a good start:

http://www.computer-arts-society.org/

More Tools

The co-ordinate system is now the right way up and redrawing is improved. I didn't need to replace the buffer code, but I do need a better way of drawing bezigons. Possibly Cairo?

Tools In Minara

Here's a screenshot of the first shape I drew in Minara using the buffer, rendering and tool APIs. It's the blob, not the logotype which is loaded from file. It's just a quick test, I couldn't actually see what I was drawing. :-)
Further testing shows that the buffer code needs replacing, which will add time to the project. But it's encouraging to see this drawing program actually drawing.

Copy-Art

A UK-based website for sharing CC-BY-NC work (via Rhizome):

"Copy-art.net (http://www.copy-art.net ) will be exhibited at the ICA London
from Tuesday 7th September to Sunday 3rd October 2004.

Copy-art.net is a copyright-free website, a curatorial project that aims to
create an online platform to exchange works between artists, curators and
the public and give the audience free access to works of art. This project
intends to challenge the idea of intellectual property and test its limits
in a copyright-free zone.

Submitted works can be downloaded, changed, distributed, exhibited and used
by all visitors for free. All submitted works will be present online in an
archive, and available to the public to access. Only commercial use is
excluded, as all works are registered with Creative Commons under a
non-commercial license.

This show marks the premier of new artists' contributions by: Elizabeth
Price, Carey Young, Doug Fishbone, Abigail Reynolds, Reza Aramesh, Peter
Coffin, Ella Gibbs, Gavin Wade, Beltran Obregon and Richard Crow.

Existing work will be also shown by Anna Best, Bigert&Bergstrom, Colectivo
Cambalache, Critical Art Ensemble, A K Dolven, House of O'Dwyer, Per
Huttner, juneau/projects/, Matthieu Laurette, Miltos Manetas, N55, Szuper
Gallery, Thomson & Craighead and SAK

12-7.30pm daily, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Mall, SW1

www.copy-art.net <http://www.copy-art.net>

for further information please email mail@copy-art.net"

SchemePaint

SchemePaint was a Scheme-based drawing system like Minara, only in the early 1990s:

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-1325.pdf

rob-art Is In Rhizome Artbase

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