Category: Personal

I’m working on reviews for Furtherfield, having long conversations about digital art on Rhizome, reading William Gibson, and learning Rails, Open Inventor and Second Life.

I’m also hacking on some data visualization code (you’ve seen the patterns on this blog) but I’m not sure whether that’s going anywhere. I think 1968/1969 may be my ultimate statement on data visualization. They have the critical distance and irony that a straight piece of data visualization lacks, whatever its input.

Like That is struggling to break through the Processing barrier. I can’t think of a language that Like That would be easy in, but it certainly isn’t Processing. Maybe I can switch to JavaScript or OpenFrameworks. I’ve sworn to just use whatever tools do the job at the time, so I’m looking at OpenSim, but when there are no good tools that doesn’t help.

I need a project that I can just do.

If you are on MySpace please make friends with a colour or a shape or a compositional principle that you like. Friending The Aesthetic needs friends…

I am now on a new weblog platform (Movable Type) on a new server. Many thanks to Matt for helping with this. And by “helping with” I mean “doing”.

The Wiki is gone, and Like That isn’t back in the art section, but apart from that everything should have been moved over now.

If anything’s missing do let me know.

I’ve had very little energy recently (no idea, possibly a virus, no not a computer virus, work with me here) and so I’m behind on just about everything I’m meant to be doing. I’ve also been reading Batman and Silver Surfer collections that the library has in. Oh and the T&H “Internet Art” book, “Laws Of Cool”, the second Alfred Jarry collection from Atlas Press, and “War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines” which I’ve wanted to re-read since borrowing Tessa Elliot’s copy about fifteen years ago. All of which has also got in the way of making stuff.

Like That is progressing slowly but surely, I’ve written some code to screenscrape art market data sites for some possible visualization work, a couple of reviews are almost ready for Furtherfield, and I got to the Open Source Embroidery show opening which was brilliant. I also had to edit my essay for the art & FOSS book, which LaTeX made nice and easy.

As soon as I have anything to show, I’ll show it.

I’m still working on various projects, notably Like That and an artworld social network data visualisation project that may be called “Information”. And I may have some good news regarding my criticism and design work as well soon.

I’ll post when I have something to show…

While I actually do some art and some writing.

I haven’t forgotten Persuasion 2 but the response to Terry’s article covers much of what it will say. 😉