urban nomad

James Harkin

Harkin, James

Thomson, Gee

Thomas Briggs

These images are discovered by exploring a variety of rule and dynamic based models for behavior. They exist on a continuum between randomness and order. The most interesting images are found at the brink of chaotic breakdown, or conversely, of strict mechanical repetitive structure. In either case the ebb and flow of line density at a micro scale become fluidlike and gestural when viewed at a more macro scale. The intended engagement of the viewer with the artwork is a temporal one, where the large scale structure of the image evaporates upon close inspection.

The computational realization of gesture in the practice entails the construction of of a spatial field of action. In this space various mathematical functions which represent small aspects of movement are distributed. The sum of the various functions is recorded for millions of points in space. These data are collated and translated into thousands of drawing primitives which are written into an image file for printing and archiving.

The Opte Project is a project created by Barrett Lyon that seeks to make an accurate representation of the extent of the Internet using visual graphics.

The PROJECT was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe, aiming to map every class C network on the Internet from a single computer and a single Internet connection with an overall goal of creating a map of the entire Internet.

Sending data to the major nodes of the internet, such as the big internet hosts, like AT&T, the packets then divert to sub nodes, mapping these. While this does not plot out every IP on the internet, this method gets the general shape of the internet, making for a good representation.

The project was started in October 2003 in an effort to provide a useful Internet map with open source code. In addition to helping teach students more about the Internet, it can also be used to visualize sites of disasters in the world, citing the significant destruction of Internet capabilities after a disaster. Additionally it can be used as a gauge for the growth of the Internet and the areas of growth.

The project has gathered support worldwide and is part of the catalogs of the Boston Museum of Science, The Museum of Modern Art and The Louvre.

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SIMILAR : 

 The Internet Mapping Project - The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.

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Links to other Internet mapping efforts

http://www.caida.org/tools/, 

http://www.cybergeography.org/

Gaston Bachelard

LABOUR ISN'T WORKING.

An advertising campaign run by the Conservative Party in the run-up to the 1979 General Elections. The Conservatives won the election with a 43-seat majority with the party leader, Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister.

Client : Conservative Party, UK

Talking about memes and viral media places an emphasis on the replication of the original idea, which fails to consider the everyday reality of communication — that ideas get transformed, repurposed, or distorted as they pass from hand to hand, a process which has been accelerated as we move into network culture.

 In many ways, cities tend to urbanize technologies semi-autonomously, since it is still not quite feasible to simply plop down a new technology in urban space. It requires modifications, mediations. Major advances in building and other technologies have left a massive imprint on urban space. This is perhaps most visible in the sharp increases in density and networked systems that the new technologies have made possible.

Technologists, urbanists and artists are beginning to "urbanize" technology. When this happens, the city becomes a heuristic space: it talks to the average resident or passer-by, it can make the most advanced applied technologies that can be used in cities visible. The city also makes visible the diversity of spatial forms through which these technological applications work, becoming legible even to the passer-by.

There is the need to push this urbanizing of technologies to strengthen horizontal practices and initiatives. Leading urban civic institutions tend to verticalize this work of making the urban.

BOOKS

Social Sculpture

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ONLINE

Memes as Mechanisms : How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World (http://doalchemy.org/2010/02/memes-as-mechanisms-how-digital-subculture-informs-the-real-world/), 02/2014

The Guardian Newspaper - interview

Zeman, J - on Peirce's Theory of Signs

Crow, David

VISIBLE SIGNS (An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts)

"Comment", Guardian Newspaper (2006)

Marion Deuchar (illustrator)

MOTION AND THE CREATION OF SPACE 

Dance is the art of motion. Through motion dance creates space as well as  defines the properties of the space it creates. For the first time the performer acts in external space to simultaneously create the work in external space. In this medium, the dancer can make us sense it accepting, resisting, parting, closing back up, in as a response to motion. Thus, space, in dance, serves the important function of communicating to us the presence of motion.

Through sympathy and empathy we can feel the motion as does the dancer. We do not need to fully contract our muscles and exert ourselves, like the dancer, to feel the quality of the dancers motion. We get to experience the pure quality of the motion without attendant strain and effort that the dancer has no choice but to experience.