People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.
Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653
The Art of the Bot « B.J. Best, Poet. https://bjbestpoet.wordpress.com/the-art-of-the-bot/
Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/
Space Colony Art from the 1970s – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/
The Art of PNG Glitch http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/
Band name of the day: the gentle art of making enemies
Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode
How experimental psychology can help us understand art | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-experimental-psychology-can-help-us-understand-art
Band name of the day: chamber of arts and wonders
The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making
Donald Knuth: “The Art of Computer Programming: Satisfiability and Combinatorics” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lhrVPDUG0
Band name of the day: high concept art terrorist
Paris Review - Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1887/don-delillo-the-art-of-fiction-no-135-don-delillo
Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/
YouTube: Art or Reality? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVav1ri65Ws
Band name of the day: land art in space
How We Frame the Value of “Experimental” Art Badly – Carcinisation https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/20/how-we-frame-the-value-of-experimental-art-badly/
Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/art-paper-notes/
Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century Music | hydramag https://hydramag.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/luigi-russolo-how-the-art-of-noise-revolutionized-20th-century-music/
Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/code-art-code-poetry-and-esolangs
Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/stack-trace-art
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein https://puzzlemontage.crevado.com/
Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.
Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
HyperLook (aka HyperNeWS (aka GoodNeWS)) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/
KolibriOS - The art of small https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kolibrios.html
Nothing in Capitalism is Clean: On Making Art in Empire http://www.thorncoyle.com/nothing-in-capitalism-is-clean-on-making-art-in-empire/
Band name of the day: art crimes unit
“Machine learning failures - for art!” by Janelle Shane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneJIxOdMX4
Can algorithms create true art, or do they only imitate? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/can-algorithms-create-true-art-or-do-they-only-imitate
Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7
Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art
A Symposium on The Point of Art - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/the-point-of-art/
Film Composition: The Subtle Art of Cinematic Scores https://tedium.co/2018/09/06/film-composition-subtle-art/
Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy
The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo
Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force
Clip Art History https://tedium.co/2018/08/30/clip-art-history/
The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled
Why Love Generative Art? “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art
PoundArt – about Random Computer Comics http://www.poundart.com/art/randcomix/about.html
What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet
The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ
Art by Subtraction. Eat, Consume and Devour: An Essay on How & Why I Wrote Lonely Men Club http://thefanzine.com/art-by-subtraction-eat-consume-and-devour-an-essay-on-how-why-i-wrote-lonely-men-club/
Arnemancy : Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory https://arnemancy.com/articles/art-of-memory/giordano-brunos-art-of-memory/
The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow
Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.