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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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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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Tagged analog computers, antikythera mechanism, charles babbage, ctcs-677, imap, johanna drucker, strandbeest, tara mcpherson, theo jansen
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David Golumbia, buzzkiller
I’m excited about all the new forms of politics, art and mischief that participatory technoculture seems to promise. I can get genuinely pumped-up about Kurzweilian “singularities,” the Planetary Society and the Long Now Foundation. Sometimes I actually think things could … Continue reading
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Tagged co-optation, ctcs-677, david golumbia, imap, pessimism, tara mcpherson
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