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Art

Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga

The Amiga line of computers had a significant influence on many graphic artists and musicians moving into digital production.

Volume and Value

“If you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good?”

Why? Oh _why?

_why has gone. Left the intarwebs. And in the process, he tore down the house, and leveled the garden.

The Missing Literary Traditions of Programming

Learning how to forget the properties of programming languages themselves, and think about the context of what is actually written in these languages.

Multimathematical Immaterialities

The abnihilization of the etym by . . . the first lord of Hurtreford expolodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble fragoromboassity amidwhiches general uttermost confussion are…

Livecoding the musical apocalypse

Algorithms are thoughts, chainsaws are tools, and the triumph of the cyborg composer.

Kreuzberg Kosmonaut

This rather large fellow is floating across the side of a building in central Kreuzberg, visible from the U-Bahn approaching Kottbusser Tor.

In my craft or sullen art

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or…

Pink's Hand Style

I guess this is only relevant for Illicit headz or my generation of Welli kids who remember Switchblade being quite possibly the best Package cover of all time, but hot damn... Looks like the new…

Obsessive Geometric Abstraction

We all suspected that Marty was an insane genius, seems the art world is starting to pay him some attention after the close of the Obsessive Drawing exhibition. Not that any of this publicity would…

The worst condition

Did Saddam unconsciously model aspects of his regime on science fiction from Western popular culture?

The Walls of Schlesische Straße

Snapshots of the epic wall art at Schlesische Straße, East of Berlin’s Wrangelkiez.

Crease Geometry

Origami has expanded far beyond its origins in step by step folding patterns. These Crease Patterns are designed to be one-step transforms from flat paper into the finished shape. Even though the…

Crying Sculpture

Via bTang, I just stumbled across this crying sculpture (.pdf) which explores the theme of communication through tears. Crying is often considered solitary and individual, but here a significance…

Porn Attention Data

Talking to a friend the other night who remarked that she thought surely most people still use the internet for porn, just like always? Which got me thinking about the latest movements towards logging…