(via 2012: THE DAZE DITHER D00M CRASHED | www.furtherfield.org)
Chicago is home to various musical moments. Currently, from the innovative moves of Cheif Keef and Young Chop, referred to as New Chicago, to the superniche tumblr energy of Seapunk, Chicago’s music culture knows the rapid movements of reinvention. Among New Media Artists, Chicago is also known as home to a ‘Chicago School of Glitch Art’ as well as being ‘the birthplace of Dirty New Media Art’. When all of these aspects combine online and AFK (Away From Keyboard) while referencing the histories of Chicago House parties, Industrial Culture in our post-industrial decline and Noise Art / Music in the heat of summer 2012, looking forwards to the ends of the worlds, a result is this: An Introduction to / Retrospective of Mayan New Media Art: the POST-DIRTY NEW MEDIA, APOCALYPTIC, END TIMES AWARE ART!
Rene Magritte’s The Treachery of Images.
(via thesecretlifeofmachines)
An application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts.
C3PO Descending A Staircase - by John Mattos
via: theuniblog
(Source: tiefighters, via illegal-art)
Marshall McLuhan, from the 1954 lecture “Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters”
published in Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek, (eds.), _The Medium and the Light_. Toronto: Stoddart, 1999, pp 156, 169
http://books.google.com/books?id=HyJ8QgAACAAJ
“To put the thing briefly, Poe saw that poetry should be written backward. One must begin with the effect that is to be achieved and then seek out the means for obtaining that effect and no other effect. Thus the same insight which enabled Poe to be the inventor of symbolist poetry also made him the inventor of detective fiction. For the sleuth works backwards from the effect of the event to reconstruct the circumstances which produced the particular event or murder […]
“The movie can teach us something more about perception and the poetic process. The characteristic dream world offered to the movie spectator occurs when we reverse the spool on which the camera has rolled up the carpet of the external world. So reversed, the carpet of the daylight world becomes the magic carpet of dreams, carrying us instantly anywhere. Similarly, it would seem that the poet differs from other men only in his conscious ability to arrest the intake of experience and to reverse the flow. By this means he is able to externalize in a work the actual process by which each of us in perception or cognition incarnates the external world of existence. But every word uttered by man requires a large measure of the poetic ability. Our words are analogies of the miracle by which we incarnate and utter the world.”
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A study of dithering applied to time-varying analog video imagery.
A slowly fading gradient generated using an analog Sandin Image Processor is rendered as a low-resolution animation. The color palette is derived from Suess’ Cat in the Hat.
Inspired by Daniel Temkin’s Dither Studies
(via facelesscope)
Blurred billboards by Ben Long, via It’s Nice That, submitted by Joe C.
