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Code and Materiality: Strandbeest and mechanical computing

Johanna Drucker’s discussion of code and materiality (”Code is not an immaterial ideal“) got me thinking about Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest project… Continue reading

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Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest

A scientist-turned-artist, Jansen’s bizarre beach animals have their roots in a computer program that he designed 17 years ago in which virtual four-legged creatures raced against each other to identify survivors fit enough to reproduce. Determined to translate the evolutionary … Continue reading

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