Noted by Daniel Rehn

marcel duchamp, a Trojan Horse even by Fred Truck (1991). A non-destructive virus that generates a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:18:00 -0700

marcel duchamp, a Trojan Horse even by Fred Truck (1991). A non-destructive virus that generates a limited number of readymade files which are labeled autonomously by the Macintosh.

An excerpt of the proposal posted to the WELL (ACEN topic 608):

When the Trojan Horse is started with a double-click it can be seen that this horse is not an application, but an application fragment. There is no menubar, so marcel duchamp can’t be quit. There are no windows as in a typical Macintosh application—just marcel duchamp running its course.

And then, icons begin appearing. Sometimes there are ten, but more and more of them come until there are 28 total. They stop accumulating, but continue moving around, as replacements with the same name are generated.

The Choose Your Own Adventure books which helped popularize...

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:37:41 -0700

The Choose Your Own Adventure books which helped popularize interactive fiction and hypertext are now available in iBooks. The series typically offered about 40 endings and sold more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. The concept was created by Edward Packard after telling branching stories to his daughter at bedtime and wondering to himself, “Could I write this down?” Perhaps the future of I.F. (and a new generation’s embrace) has been resurrected from the past.

"Up in dada heaven, Duchamp and Ernst probably wish they’d had computers, too. Joyce no doubt..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:01:22 -0700

“Up in dada heaven, Duchamp and Ernst probably wish they’d had computers, too. Joyce no doubt would be into hypertext. Finnegans Wake would make the biggest and most complex HyperCard stack in the world.”

- Steven Anzovin /Compute 127 (1991.03)

A partial survey of digital painting apps for MacOS (1983–90)....

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:35:00 -0700

MacPaint v1.4 (1983)

Apple Draw

Kid Pix (1989)

Mac 3D (1987)

Block Paint

VideoWorks (1985)

Adobe Photoshop 1.0.7 (1990)

Adobe Illustrator 88 (1988)

Mac Calligraphy (1987)

A partial survey of digital painting apps for MacOS (1983–90). I’m working through an obsession with black-and-white UIs at the moment [as evidenced by new site] and these paint applications are great specimens. Aside from the obvious (MacPaint and, later, Photoshop/Illustrator 1.0) there were many others including Mac 3D and MacroMind VideoWorks [later renamed Macromedia Director].

Screenshots sourced from the very comprehensive Vintage Mac Museum which includes several screenshots per application, photos of disks/manuals, and covers all categories. Recommended.

The Game is Broken

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:30:00 -0700

During my research ritual for wwwtxt/@wwwtxt on Tuesday, I stumbled upon a fantastic observation from November 1993 about the decline of [creativity in] computer games:

It was bound to happen. After years of more or less blissful innocence, artful drive, and altruistic passion, corporate America has found, captured, dissected, and degraded the Computer Game. It was a noble thing once: half way between Art and Science, it amused and challenged like no other pasttime. It brought people away from boredom or frustration to alternate worlds, vivid and alive. It was programmed with love, diligence, and a vision for excellence. The Game was meant to be enjoyed. It was crafted to stand alone and independent from its creator, to be sent out into the world with a value all its own. It was forward-looking, progressive, and challenging.

But now, all that has changed. The Game has been broken. It was pressed into a mold of verifiable and uninteresting funness, marked with a price and passed to the masses. They gave willingly to have it, because it was now a drug to them; a lifeless, empty drug. It helped them to escape for a while, but its mediocrity left them wanting more, though they did not even know how mediocre it was, since they had nothing with which to compare. What would become of it? […]

The original poster faces a heavy thread rife with flames—mostly naysayers who feel games were always creatively lackluster and always will be. But there’s a small minority who agree, and point out that games are less inspiring and requiring less imagination.

It’s almost 20 years later and we’ve experienced some bright moments. There’s a substantial, productive indie movement too, but there’s also much unexplored potential in the Game medium. LA Game Space—a project I’ve been developing with Adam Robezzoli over the past 3 years—is largely a response to these concerns. We aim to set games free, to stoke the creative and experimental fires that have already been started. Our space will provide the opportunities for games to be created and played without needing to worry about popularity or sell-ability. And, crucially, our interdisciplinary artist-residents will experience creative friction that will demand the development of new, hybrid forms.

As for the original poster, Jeff Wofford, he’s alive, well, and posted this recently (6,744 days later):

We have to make games. We think about them. We draw them. We write about them. We replay images in our minds—incredible images that we can’t stand for the rest of the world to never see. We have to design games. We long for them to get made.

Some dreams never die. Here’s to making this one a reality.

images from Christopher Locke’s “Modern Fossils” (2009)

Greg J. Smith interviewed us for CAN recently. He fired away...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:28:00 -0700

Greg J. Smith interviewed us for CAN recently. He fired away with some truly great questions. I fired back with as much insight into our project and processes as I possibly could—

Z/Z/Z/ is a project hatched by Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag dedicated to “describing the dimension of cultural artifacts that are difficult to explain using natural language”. This endeavor deploys a custom visualization workflow to break down footage from film, animation and games and reconstitute this source material into stills and animated GIFs using a range of image analysis techniques. This playful and technically-minded approach to remixing media has yielded an ever-growing database of case studies which includes many important precedents (John Whitney’s “Catalog”, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001, A Spacey Odyssey”, “Astroids” etc.). Daniel and Sarah recently chatted with CAN about their work and they’ve provided us with the following overview of their research.

Read the interview →

“Wanna Drive with Dolly All Night Long” for Sheroes #9: Dolly...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:21 -0700

“Wanna Drive with Dolly All Night Long” for Sheroes #9: Dolly Parton by Daniel Rehn (2012). Tomorrow night in Toronto!

"By now the word “hypertext” has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:01:13 -0700

“By now the word “hypertext” has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word “hypermedia,” meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound—as well as text—is much less used. Instead they use the strange term “interactive multimedia”: this is four syllables longer, and does not express the idea of extending hypertext.”

- Ted Nelson, Literary Machines, 1992

The Teletext Museum.An online archive of information on a...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:01:00 -0700

The Teletext Museum.An online archive of information on a British television information system, which very recently is closing down after 38 years of service:

This site celebrates the development of a very British invention. Here you will find information about the development of teletext from its faltering beginnings to a system which has gained worldwide acceptance and which we now take for granted.

In July 2009 Teletext Ltd announced its intention to close its teletext news service in Jan 2010, due to falling audience and revenue. All analogue tv services and teletext will close in the UK by 2013.

teletext.mb21.co.uk

Works by Panther Club members (2009–12). File under: MEMPHIS...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:10:00 -0700

Letterforms by Benbo George

Alright by Benbo George

Subbacultcha Magazine by Viktor Hachmang

Sahara Studio Expo by Viktor Hachmang

Untitled by Château Vacant

SM/SCB/Deze by Vicktor Hachmang

NikeID by Michael Willis

Vigilantes by Michael Willis

Works by Panther Club members (2009–12). File under: MEMPHIS HAS A POSSE. I knew Hickson would reveal another revival reference point, and then Cole Moss pointed me to Michael Willis’ Panther Club.

Not entirely, holistically Memphis Group—but just as incredibly indebted to the style—these graphic designers were mostly born during/after the era. As with Hickson, this work does not feel like a reanimated corpse. It’s something more akin to rediscovering and further exploring a small, forgotten island.

Research/works by Clay Hickson (2010–12). File under: MEMPHIS...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:39:00 -0700

Research from Memphis by Barbara Radice

Research from Memphis by Barbara Radice

Research from Memphis by Barbara Radice

Sunday Thoughts 1.22.12 (2012)

Sketchbook

Funeral (2011)

Marble Pyramid

Sunday Thought (Stamp Collector) (2012)

Generic Sunday

Research/works by Clay Hickson (2010–12). File under: MEMPHIS REBIRTH. Hickson’s work initially emulated the Memphis Group which he clearly researched at a deep level. It’s clear now though—having mastered the vernacular—that he’s taking Memphis down roads that didn’t exist in the 1980s. One to watch, for sure. (↬unicodecharacters)

Content-Free Patent Art (2012). “Art from people who...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:20:43 -0700

Content-Free Patent Art (2012). “Art from people who aren’t artists, randomly culled from a wealth of video game-related patents.” Very promising concept that’s already delivering great drawings from the idea archive.

Selected rooms from “The Joint” by Pixel Joint artists...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:39:18 -0700

Stephen hawkins dorm room by drZool

The Red Solstice Room by Eahs

the Doors room by kiwidesign

Pond of Life by Omenith

Relaxing Room by mrduke

Room race by d-p

Room Redecoration by Skull

Ramp Apartment by Script

Escher's dorm room by Smite_O_Rama

Selected rooms from “The Joint” by Pixel Joint artists (2007–12). Clever iso-pixel rooms created for an even clever-er iso-pixel apartment building.

“Spectre VR” for Macintosh by Velocity Development (1994). A...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:10:00 -0700

“Spectre VR” for Macintosh by Velocity Development (1994). A beautiful early-polygon game where you shoot tanks, avoid windmills, and capture flags. Great, cyberwonky soundtrack too. The aesthetic merges the bright colors of S.T.U.N. Runner, Space Harrier’s parallax, and Battlezone’s tank P.O.V. (Some of the Battlezone designers worked on Spectre.)

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:27:00 -0700

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“Desktop Is” curated by Alexei Shulgin (1997-98). Dubbing...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:17:00 -0700

Buk Head (neosituationist@hotmail.com)

(idea1@erols.com)

by way of Luka Frelih (luka@ljudmila.org

alblum (alblum@br.homeshopping.com.br)

M@ (mhoessli@cadre.sjsu.edu)2

rachel@irational.org

garnet hertz (garnet@conceptlab.com)--de

“Desktop Is” curated by Alexei Shulgin (1997-98). Dubbing itself ‘The First International Online Desktop Exhibition,’ this show is still partially open to the public. Like an ancient temple near the ocean though, it’s beginning to experience severe structural damage.

Only about 1/3 of the entire desktop collection still exist at their original URL. [For those interested: I’ve created an archive of what’s still available.] Also still available is Garnet Hertz’s classic “7300 Desktop” (from which the last desktop is pulled).

All of this makes me appreciate the donation that I give Rhizome each year towards it’s Art Base. Speaking of which, if you’re interested in learning more about Alexei—there’s a Rhizome interview from 2008 and there’s always Wikipedia too.

(↬Martijn van Boven who sent this to wwwtxt on Twitter.)

“Patience” by adam0301 (2011). Beauty. •••

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:23:51 -0700

“Patience” by adam0301 (2011). Beauty. •••

“Beginnings” by Don Slepian (1984). Pyroclastic pastel painted...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:57:00 -0700

“Beginnings” by Don Slepian (1984). Pyroclastic pastel painted ooze created with the Chromascope vsynth. (Highly recommend Slepian’s “Sea of Bliss” space album from the same era as well.)

“Cratermaze” by Cratermaze (2010). Pure pink+blue ecstasy from...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:24:00 -0700

“Cratermaze” by Cratermaze (2010). Pure pink+blue ecstasy from a Sandin Image Processor, Final Cut, and a slowed TG16 soundtrack.

IPv6 Rice Processor [Test] by Sam Kronick (2012). Of the...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:16:00 -0700

IPv6 Rice Processor [Test] by Sam Kronick (2012). Of the numerous projects that we at D:GP (the Center for Design and Geopolitics) have in our sights, “Deep Address” is, well, deep with possibility. My fellow researcher (and friend) Sam’s prototype taps the vision perfectly:

What if your every blood cell could have its own internet address? What if everything in the world –all the way down to the scale of nanometers and up to the scale of human ideas and global cities– could directly exchange information, could communicate, as part of a massive universal addressing system?

I’m pursuing a similar processing with the objects of classic abstract animation and video art. McLaren’s dots, Paik’s people, and maybe even Chris Burden’s big wrench.