Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: CurAudio / DocuMP3
A collection of audio content from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web.
100 years of the computer artscene - Talk by Jason Scott and Rad Man at Notacon04
Recording of a talk by Jason Scott (creator of textfiles.com) from NOTACON 2004 discusses the history of computing and creativity.
Unfortunately, there is no accompanying visual collection to the examples mentioned in the talk, yet it is an enlightening primer on creativity and new technology. (PK link)
DJ Food - Raiding The 20th Century
DJ Food's classic mix from 2004 curates and documents the growth of 'The Cut-Up' (also known as bootlegs or mash-ups), forming a creative alternative world of popular music. It also features spoken audio from Paul Morley, critic and former member of the Art of Noise and ZTT Records, reading from his book 'Words and Music: the history of pop in the shape of a city.'
Tracklist on DJ Food's website. (PK link.)
Dreams - Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange
Narrations of recollected dreams recorded and collaged with the distinct audio style of BBC Radiophonic Workshop musician Delia Derbyshire:
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Other Worlds
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Other Worlds', a collection of independent / student games that veer away from convention, either produced as 'experiences' in another environment, aesthetic exercises that the paths of commercial gaming did not tread.
Proteus
Indie video game with Zen-like experience, with ambient audio music and 3D Atari-cartridge-like visuals. An island is randomly generated for exploration, with no goal orientated action. (PK)
Zenith
Free game by Arcane Kids that celebrates ' ... speed, movement, and Twitter ...', acrobatic skating in a polygon world.
(PK)
Trip
Currently unreleased, when available should be free for all. (PK)
Fotonica
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Computed Fashion
Virtual Clothing Touch 'Heatmap' Feature Of CLO 3D
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Fashion'.
Glitch Embroidery by Nukeme
Clothing with embroidered logos whose sewing machine file has been purposefully corrupted, creating glitched outputs:
CLO 3D
South Korean 3D CAD software developed specifically for industry-class clothing design:
Netstyles
Limited edition T-Shirts designed by net artists:
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Digital Graffiti
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, around the theme of 'Digital Graffiti'
SWEZA
Berlin-based street artist uses QR Codes in his work, such as his Graffyard project, which is part archive, part graffiti work which accesses photographs of removed graffiti:
I am using QR Codes to preserve graffiti for posterity by photographing the graffiti before it is removed. After the graffiti has been cleaned off by the local authorities or building owners i place a QR Code in the exact location which resolves to an image of the original. In that way a mobile phone with a QR-Code Reader can be used to travel back in time.
Video of artist
Artist's Website
Facadeprinter
Project invovles machine which creates images on walls by firing accurately firing paintballs onto the surface:
PK LinkThe Facadeprinter is a simple robot. Its purpose: shooting out large scale graphics onto walls. Calculating movements based on digital artwork, software controlled motors position an airpressure-marker to fire thousands of colorballs and print the work on a distant surface. The artwork grows dot by dot, like the drawing of a magic pen. An inkjet-printer in architectonical dimensions.
Project Website
Free Art Technology
F.A.T. have produced various projects merging graffiti with new technologies, such as:
QR Code Stenciler
PK Link
Project Page
Graffiti Markup Language
Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) is a universal, XML based, open file format designed to store graffiti motion data (x and y coordinates and time). The format is designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation, even for hobbyist ...
Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Algorists
Kubo-Oktaeder, 1971 by Ludwig Rase + Georg Nees
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, focusing on a collection of European artists who since the 1960's have independently been creating art with the computer, and in 1995, became known as 'Algorists'.
Below are five artists picked with accompanying animated gifs of their work. For a more expansive investigation, check out the links at the end of the piece:
Definition of an Algorist:
if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) {
include * an algorist
} elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm) {
exclude * not an algorist
}
Herbert W. Franke
