Latest Entries
Jules Janssen
photographic revolver
In 1873, Jules Janssen (1824-1907) presented to the Commission for Venusian solar transits, his « revolver method » for solving in an objective and permanent way the difficult problem of determing the exact moment of contact of the planet Venus with the solar disc.
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Straw Camera
Michael (Mick) Farrell and Cliff Haynes
32,000 10-inch black drinking straw “lenses” that each provided the camera with an f/127 aperture.
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Karl Klomp
hyperkinetic audio visuals
video circuit bending, video interruption, hardware interfacing and programming
Carsten Nicolai
unicolor 2014
“the installation unicolor examines the psychology of color perception..”
Juliet Ferguson
Stolen Images
Does photography demand a presence or are photographs taken using appropriated cameras controlled from another country in another time zone just as valid as ‘created’ images?
Artists and machine intelligence
Art has always existed in a complex, symbiotic and continually evolving relationship with the technological capabilities of a culture.
self-regulating systems
Feedback Machines
Project at the Köln International School of Design, Cologne.
Feedback loops are one of the main principles in the control and regulation of autonomous machines.
Adam Brown
Records and Tapes which Do Things
Buncefield Records and Tapes is an independent record label which releases photographs.
Domenico Quaranta
Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age
a book about endless archives, image collections, bees plundering from flower to flower and hunters crawling through the online wilderness.
Thompson and Craighead
light from tomorrow
It centres on an expedition to The Kingdom of Tonga, where tomorrow’s outdoor light-readings are broadcast in close to real time through The International Dateline to today; specifically to a lightbox installed in the San Jose Museum of Art in California.
Daniel Watkins
All My Friends
A sonification project in which I acquired portraits of my friends, and used the raw JPEG data to convert the images to piano music. The music is then dubbed on to cassette tapes which are then arranged to add a sculptural element to the project.
Simon Weckert
In the shadow of the darkness
The two objects are pointing to the moon and the sun. The LED lights represent the movement and the brightness of the two planets as seen from the centre of the earth in real-time.
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Flexible Sheet Camera
Flexible Sheet Cameras With Elastic Optics
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from – CAVE | Computer Vision Laboratory – Columbia University
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New Aesthetic
The New Aesthetic is a term, coined by James Bridle, used to refer to the increasing appearance of the visual language of digital technology and the Internet in the physical world, and the blending of virtual and physical.
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Jesse England
His output comprises a variety of gadgets, books, videos and assorted ephemera which comment on the changing landscape of contemporary media generation and consumption.
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Jacob Kirkegaard
London Subterraneous
takes the work of seventeenth century alchemist and scientist Athanasius Kircher as inspiration. Kircher was a polymath and inventor, who researched fields as diverse as medicine and Egyptology, and designed and constructed wondrous sound and vision automatons.
Andreas Müller-Pohle
Blind Genes. 2002
Following on Digital Scores, which represent the world’s first photograph (Niépce, 1826) in various digital encodings, Blind Genes are derived from a genetic database.
Quantum imaging
Entangled photons make a picture from a paradox
Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light
that has not interacted with the object being photographed.
ZERO
“Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero turns. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night – Zero flows. The Eye Zero. Navel. Mouth. Kiss. The milk is around. The Flower Zero the bird. Silently. Suspended. I eat Zero, Drink Zero, Zero I sleep, I wake Zero, I love Zero. Zero is nice, dynamo, dynamo, dynamo. The trees in the spring, the snow, fire, water, sea. Red orange yellow green blue violet indigo ZeroZero rainbow. 4 3 2 1 Zero. Gold and silver, smoke and mirrors. Wanderzirkus Zero. Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero is Zero. ”
– ZERO : Catalog Mack Piene Uecker- . Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover 1965
Herwig Kempinger
Untitled, 1991
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Randy West
I’m not picking up after you anymore
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Adrian Sauer
16,777,216 colors, 125 x 476, Digital C-Print, 2010
Each one of the possible 16,777,216 colours in the 8-bit color mode
is represented exactly one time, and randomly distributed, in the picture
Helmut Smits
Dead Pixel in Google Earth
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James Bridle
Robot readable World– Waving at the Machines
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Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
The Centre brings together a group of researchers who are seeking new knowledge and understanding of how network and computational culture has and is changing the production and reception of art and photography.
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AfterSherrieLevine
In 1936 Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama. In 1979 in Sherrie Levine rephotographed Walker Evans’ photographs from the exhibition catalog “First and Last.” In 2001 Michael Mandiberg scanned these same photographs, and created AfterWalkerEvans.com and AfterSherrieLevine.com to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age.
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Dina Kelberman
I’m Google
is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and
videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a
long stream-of-consciousness.
Doug Rickards
A New American Picture depicts American street scenes,
located using the internet platform Google Street View.
