Assignment-02-Tweet – Spencer Longo Beats Pill Essay –@YungRAR

The essay linked in Longo’s tweet is a nice exploration of the current systems by which branding and product placement operate in media. Specifically, how do products — encoding various symbologies but more importantly, normative (and collaborative) schemata for advertising — come to be embedded within media like music videos that are so widely seen. How does this embedment come about, which seems so uncanny yet neutral? Certainly the common view of music videos as trivial media objects or expressions of anti-conceptual ideology seems dubious. But what can we replace this with, if we can’t infiltrate the industry and see for ourselves how it operates? Longo’s essay tells us to look beyond our experiences of product placement and to the more current question of how our ontologies are affected and reflected by the seeming-contradictions of influence that arise in our heavily mediated and branding-laden lives. His conclusion resonates strongly with me:

Being cloud-based and fluid means that it’s not an issue whether you’re clutched in the palm of the hottest producers’ hand or jammed into the mouth of a second-tier cyber vixen, as you maintain autonomy by flattening association and context to the point where all scenarios are equal and valid, allowing one to view the field from the point of the infinite panopticon. You inhabit everything, or you inhabit nothing. Existing within the flow of culture means letting it take you where it wants. You are the passenger, so please don’t adjust the air conditioning.

IFTTT : Automated Dad-Alerters

I decided that I would like to keep my dad a little more informed as to my whereabouts. Thus, I utilized IFTTT’s texting and GPS tracking channels to create my recipe:

If I enter or leave the Residence on Fifth, then send my dad a text message letting him know that I am entering or leaving my dorm. 

Now, I decided that I shouldn’t stop there. I also decided to automate our shared interest of astronomy and human space flight with two additional recipes:

If the International Space Station flies over my family’s house, then text my dad letting him know that the ISS is overhead. 

If nasa.gov posts an image to their Image of the Day Gallery, then text the image URL to my dad.

IFTTT is allowing me to partially automate my interaction with my dad, and, given enough recipes, I could do the same for my entire family/social circle. I think of social interaction itself as an API between conscious entities, and with the advent of social networking applications, the operation of this API can be easily automated. Such automation qualifies as art, especially in the scope of Jer Thorpe’s article. API art also turns Jim Campbell’s Formula for Computer Art on its head, as it facilitates multi-input, multi-output, decentralized operation.

Tweet Part 2

The Creators Project tweeted about these digitally-manipulated portraits, by Jon Jacobsen, that look like paintings! I guess after reading the article, I am left wondering about the process of creating these images. Did he add any outside patterns/colors or did he strictly take the information from the existing image? In other words did he only work from one image or several images? I guess the reason that I enjoyed this tweet the most was because it did not look digitally made, and that shows that technology has an endless aesthetic it just requires time and practice in order to tap into those other aesthetics.  This is the link they tweeted:

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/digitally-manipulated-portraits-turn-bodies-into-swirling-abstractions?utm_source=tcptwitteranz

Assignment 2 : Twitter : Abyss of Semi-Anonymous Human Expression

Twitter exists in the area of cyberspace where personal accountability is optional. These environments allow users to spit out their unfiltered, unfettered streams of consciousness without any fear of standards or repercussions. An example of one of my favorite culprits:

This user, named wint (true identity unknown), has more than 125,000 followers. I enjoy his posts for their non-sequitur humor. I especially like this one for its virtual reality reference.

Further into Twitter

Exploring Twitter I found:

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I like the look of the picture. You’d expect some post-apocalyptic fiction story to go with it, but it’s just a product for the quirky/nerdy/workaholic rich people of the 20s.

 

A statement that sounds like it is part of a commercial, but it relates to my goals as an artist, cheesiness aside.

Looking Outwards 02: Processing

I really like the idea behind this project because it combines the computer made aspect with real-time manipulation. This project uses the music of Dirty Freud to create a sound visualization which is then also affected by another musician Jean-Michel Rolland with a midi controller. The real time manipulation is what interests me the most about this project. Its a digital collaboration where one party doesn’t know they’re involved. Its like visual DJ-ing.

http://p5p.cecinestpasparis.net/index.html

I was surprised by how much i enjoyed watching these sketches evolve despite the projects seeming simplicity. Very pretty.

I like this project because it takes something that already exists in a physical form, text, specifically from a book, and animates it digitally. I think it sort of missed an opportunity to do something ironic like use a really old text or use at least a more renowned book than fahrenheit 51, like maybe even the bible at least.

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IFTTT, Art and the API

“If new email in inbox from sabrown@andrew.cmu.edu, then send me an SMS “Every time I get a package, I’ll get a text instead of constantly checking my email expectantly.

Initially, part of me thinks IFTTT is creepy in that it connects everything, but really it just IS creepy to see all your accounts in one place all at once. It reminds me that the internet already has all my personal information, so I might as well add another account. I love the concept. I think it’s super convenient, creative, and clever.  I think the concept of API’s is really interesting and that as a bridge from one computer to another, they hold a lot of creative potential. As someone who had no idea what they were before reading the article, the emphasis the author puts on the weight we the reader supposedly puts on them is amusing.

Twitter

@kiralucille

@tinygreentrees (but dont judge me because i dont try like i used to with the beyonce pics)

I think these tweets are interesting because they are funny. They’re not informative or inspirational but I am entertained by them, which is a large part of Twitter for me.

 

Looking Outwards 1

  1. Yoshi Sodeoka: GIF Compositions displayed in an online gallery.
    1. I really like this project, because I’m very interested in how different formats of digital art can be used in a gallery context. These GIFS have inspired me to switch from working with static images on the computer and try to make something that moves.

i.     http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2013/04/08/13-compositions/

  1. Vax by Ellsworth Campell and Isaac Bromley
    1. This project is a network visualization game about how diseases are spread.

i.     I really love the concept of this game, because it’s a cool way to show people the effect that one infected person can have on those around them. That being said, it looks really really boring and grey. If I’m being honest, I would probably stop playing this game in less than a minute, no matter how educational.

ii.     http://flowingdata.com/2014/07/31/network-visualization-game-to-understand-how-a-disease-spreads/

  1. Noa Raviv: Impossible clothes
    1. This designer made a line of clothes utilizing 3D rendering and 3D printing. The interesting part to me about this line is that she used designs that would glitch the 3D rendering program she was using. However, this project was one that surprised me because I hadn’t thought about the utilization of 3D printing in the context of fashion. I think there’s some really cool stuff going on here, and that she just opened up a wide range of exploration for other fashion designers interested in exploring new technologies.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/meet-the-fashion-designer-whos-3d-printing-impossible-clothes

Kira melville Looking Outwards 01

http://www.dwbowen.com/cloud_piano_movie.html

Cloud Piano is a piano that plays music based on the movement of the clouds above. I camera captures the movement and shape of the clouds and a robot presses the corresponding keys of the piano. I am interested in how the artist determined what notes to associate with each image.

 

https://www.creativeapplications.net/c/patterned-by-nature-transparent-pixels-in-the-north-carolina-museum-of-natural-sciences/

Patterned by Nature is a Large-scale lcd sculpture to display  20 down-scaled patterns of nature and to change along with a soundtrack. It is located in the North Caroline Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh and it spans 90×5 feet. In addition, two high-resolution screens show the image and a description of what is on the sculpture at any time through the sequence. The only think I don’t like about the project is how it leaves no room for interpretation, but seeing as it is a museum for educational purposes, Its understandable.

 

http://www.hypersonic.cc/who-we-are#!/projects/breakingwave

Breaking Wave is a cluster of  804  metal balls suspended by wire on rotating drums that move each wire up and down to form patterns that mimic nature.  The arrangements look like chaos but for 2 viewpoints, where the pattern can be seen. The theory is that scientists sort through these patterns and data points to create new drugs and cures, and this data is what informs the movement of the wires and the arrangement of the balls. I Think this is really cool to look at and watch but I wish that the meaning behind the pretty arrangements was more clear,

 

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