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Whitespace by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. [...]
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extreme whitespace by amy alexander / deprogramming.us Extreme Whitespace takes advantage of your linux/unix text terminal's natural talent as a realtime video instrument!
It's really pretty simple. About all this script really does it is continually spew whitespace into your terminal for you to type into/with/against/around...
(Up against that kind of resistance, your typing can't help but become a performance tour de force!)
More info, [...]
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Novelwriting by Jeff Epler Novelwriting is a knock-off of the Dada Engine written in Python.
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Wirescapes 1.0 by John Vega Wirescapes 1.0 is an exploration of the machine as conduit to the art idea. Interaction with the Virtual Sculpture Interface allows for the generation of infinite form and fleeting moments of beauty and chaos. The VSI provides for the creation of a digital "action painting" and presents opportunities for the user to see what is in the moment and to capture that instant of “seeing [...]
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Programming with a Paintbrush by Richard Wright A comparison of two highly contrasting designs of artist’s moving image software - Quantel and Adobe After Effects. This detailed critical essay analyses how a creative practice is constructed not through the technical definition of the software nor its visual design but its “techno-aesthetic” – the cultural models and encoded subjectivities by which a system’s [...]
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Actionist Respoke (Passivist Destroke) by Michael Janoschek & Rüdiger Schlömer Sound interface for the music of "Mouse On Mars"
"Actionist Respoke" was produced on the occasion of the "MTV iClip Award". Contrasting the commercial orientation of the format iClip (an interactive web version of Music Video Clips), this work reflects the question if music has to please the listener and if an interface has to obey the user.
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fleur v 0.2 by clemos "fleur" is a text generator based on a search engine. the user enters a word. the program gets related textual material on the Web, splits it and re-builts it randomly.
multiple subjects and new meanings can then appear, as the program runs through several websites, more or less related to the word entered, and puts those different texts together in a cut-up style computer poetry.
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googlepoweredgogglebox by Sam Woolf The googlepoweredgogglebox is a tool I made using Macromedia's Director software to explore the idea of generative film-making. The idea of generative or process art has been around for at least as long as Brian Eno and most probably for a good while longer. It has (some of) its roots in the experimental music movement of the 1960's and the work of avant-garde composers such as John Cage and Steve [...]
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NETARIUM by Haruka Kikuchi The universe seen from the Internet.
"NETARIUM" is the simulator which converts branch of a website into a video signal on real time. Arbitrary websites are decided and started. If "NETARIUM" analyzes the structure of a website and a link is found, it will create a star on the field. And the following page is loaded automatically again. [...]
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Software Art Panel Transcript Feb. 2003 by ... It's a transcript of the 3 hours long panel discussion on software art between Amy Alexander, Florian Cramer, Olga Goriunova, Alex McLean, Antoine Schmitt, Inke Arns, Pit Schultz, Sally Jane Norman, Adrian Ward, Dragan Miletic, and many others.
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Behind the Blip: Software as Culture by Matthew Fuller (some routes into 'software criticism', more ways out.)
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PawSense by BitBoost Systems PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.
admin's note: It costs money and we didn't try it but we like the concept!
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P.A.N.S.E. by Pall Thayer PANSE is an open access audio server that is capable of receiving messages as well as outputting numerical streams based on amplitude and midi note values being played by seperate "instruments". These numerical streams can be used for instance in a Flash movie to control various parameters of the movie. [...]
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The 5k contest by Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what force us to get truly creative. Between servers and bandwidth, clients and users, HTML and the DOM, browsers and platforms, our conscience and our ego, we're left in a very small space to find highly optimal solutions. [...]
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Enigma n^2 by Jim Andrews Enigma n^2 is meaning thrice: once backwards, twice forwards. Very stereo. Best with headphones up loud. Click around in it. It also lets you explore different sounds in a similar manner if you download the source code and open it with Director.
An experiential conceptual piece.
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