Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law. Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to
The ball-of-mud transition: Akvo.org
“A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point
Thinking aloud – trying not to look mad
Today i experimented with Iphone Siri on my way to work. Why? because i feel the need to capture thoughts and ideas as they occur in the spaces between childcare, work and study. These are the times when i am
Bean game with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead 10/10/13
Thursday 10th October saw the first beans game played with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead pub in Brighton. The first game of the Digital Media Arts course. Whilst course leader Sue Gollifer and visiting lecturers Sam Proud and Paul Bunkham
The Society of the Spectacle : Guy Debord : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
The Society of the Spectacle : Guy Debord : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive The Culmination of Separation The Commodity as Spectacle Unity and Division Within Appearance The Proletariat as Subject and Representation Time and… This was posted
“…the liveliest factor that is played out on the chessboard of art has to do with interactive, user…
“…the liveliest factor that is played out on the chessboard of art has to do with interactive, user friendly and relational concepts” Nicolas Bourriand: Relational Aesthetics,1996 This was posted on Google+…
On relational aesthetics: Nicolas Bourriand
“…the liveliest factor that is played out on the chessboard of art has to do with interactive, user friendly and relational concepts” Nicolas Bourriand: Relational Aesthetics,1996 Excerpts from book This was posted on Google+…
Furtherfield
Furtherfield Homepage | Esther Belvis Pons writes about the rising interest in the notion of public space; demonstrations, camps, collaborative projects, artistic interventions, community projects, social activism. Pons explores just a few names that exemplify the different forms of engagement
Collaboration and freedom – the world of free and open source art
By guest curators Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, Furtherfield Each element in this collection connects with some aspect of freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute
AOS | Art is Open Source
AOS, Art is Open Source, is an international informal network exploring the mutation of human beings with the wide and ubiquitous accessibility and availability of digital technologies and networks. We move across arts and sciences, using technology, communication, performance, art