Secondary Research, year 2 term 2

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EMIX

Demoscene production by Epoch features contemporary real-time visuals with a techno track. As always, it is best to experience the demo running natively on your computer, and bear in mind all the effects you see are coded:

You can download the demo directly here, or find out more at Pouet here

(Source: pouet.net)

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The Lost Art of Canada’s Doomed Pre-Internet Web

Short video from motherboardtv looks at Telidon, a Canadian networking technology which artists used as a creative medium:

Before GIFs and net art, there was Telidon. Telidon was a protocol invented in Canada in the late 1970s that let people dial in to central servers over the phone lines to view computer graphics on their TV sets. Telidon was mainly meant for online shopping and banking, but it wasn’t all business. Artists in Toronto obtained one of the desk-sized computers used to create Telidon graphics and formed a thriving community around it before Telidon disappeared in the mid 80s. We catch up with the original Telidon artists and find out what it was like to be a true pioneer in the world of art made with machines.

Motherboard has also put together an article on the Telidon system, which you can read here

(Source: Vice Magazine)

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Database

Public installation by Tobias Zimmer and David Ebner is a booth which monitors passers-by with cameras and facial recognition tech, streaming results on printed paper which become shredded:

The art project »Database« is a public installation on the subject of surveillance. It covers the invisible and unnoticed collection of data in both public as well as digital spaces and discusses the use of said information. The installation consists of a continuous printer, a paper shredder and two cameras, which detect the faces of people passing by. The faces are being printed together with a respective data entry that indicates date, time and number of the capture. They are then going to be processed by the shredder, while the digital image files are deleted immediately upon printing. This way the »Database« is gradually filling itself with huge amounts of paper and data.

More about the project can be found here

tobiaszimmer has a Tumblr blog here, as does davidebner here

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Specular Portraits 

Project from James George uses 3D scans for portraiture which transition in form and appearance, shifting in identities:

I have a writing practice: at regular intervals, in a stream of consciousness I list the current cast of characters in my life. The prominent people who are on the forefront of my mind at that time are written down by name without further description. Over the years, individuals emerge and fade away, sometimes to appear again years later. Roles of friends and lovers are filled and  vacated. Ties with family members fluctuate. Specular Portraits is a new and ongoing series of portraits depicting individuals as they enter this cast of characters. 

Using a process I call ‘geometric light’, figures fade and appear, shifting identities and trading places as the lights give and remove their form.

You can find out more here

(Source: jamesgeorge.org)

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Contentbot

Project by Alex Taylor is a bot that is constantly viewing and sharing web content, represented as a 3D avatar:

Contentbot is a relentless virtual player in the attention economy, seeking out Hot New Content to engage with & share on a 24/7 basis. Meaningful tweets are occasionally constructed via rudimentary sentiment analysis.

View for yourself here

Alex also has a Tumblr blog here