Tag: computers
Jeff Thompson has seen more Law & Order than you. In fact, the digital artist has seen all 456 episodes of the original, non-SVU or –CI version of the show, and while watching, he took a screenshot of every computer that appears onscreen. He’ll present his findings in Computers on Law & Order, a Rhizome-funded talk at the Museum of the […]
The short student film “Noah” follows a teenager mid- and post-girlfriend drama in form of screen recordings of his internet activity. It’s smart. And depressing. Has POV like this been attempted before? Stalkerish Facebook behavior. Chats. Skypes. Porn. Exciting stuff. And then, a cathartic opus with a stranger on Chat Roulette at the end. Directed by […]
Computer Chess (2013) Andrew Bujalski mumblecored again, into an ’80s tournament between the newest chess-playing computer terminals. Hotel o’ Geeks. ADVENTURES! “Have you ever taken LSD?” Smart, so smart. Surrealism. Or is it? If you like chess, programming or thinking, see this film. If you like film, see this film. If you film, see this […]
If you’re in the sunshine state, they may be coming after you as you read this. Thanks to a scandal over gambling in internet cafes that led to the resignation of Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, a clumsily worded new law may have accidentally banned all computers, smartphones, and any other devices that connect to the internet. […]
At first glance, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess looks like a documentary filmed in the early ’80s. Then, you realize… This could be this year’s best new film. See chess software programmers spend several days in a crappy hotel. There’s a Swiss-style chess tournament: “We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach […]
IBM supercomputers have already beaten Kasparov at chess and Ken Jennings at Jeopardy. Now, the company hopes to take on the Anthony Bourdains, Alton Browns, and Gordon Ramsays of the world with a machine that’s designed to assemble recipes like a gourmet chef (t won’t actually cook, unfortunately). As Co.Design points out, the vague, abstracted idea of what […]
Niklas Roy, a professor at art university in Germany (where else?) recently challenged his students to create functional computing systems using nothing more than cardboard, welding wire, glue, rope, rulers and cutting knifes. To prove it could be done, Roy also created a cardboard computer himself–the ingenious plotting machine in the above video. Roy’s students submitted […]
Imagine living in a permanent augmented reality. Imagine walking around and all that you cast your gaze upon emits an infinite amount of metadata. All the images, maps and information associated with whatever you’re looking at becomes accessible to you in real time. Imagine doing it without looking quite so douche-y with those Google Glasses […]
“قلب, as far as I know, is the first programming language that’s also a conceptual art piece,” says Ramsey Nasser, computer scientist and a fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. He can’t read the Russian hacker forums or the Chinese Twitter accounts buzzing about قلب (“alb”, “heart”), but he shows us how his terminal can understand Arabic calligraphy. It’s […]
Take eight floppy disk drives, some MIDI software, an Arduino, and a little programming know-how, and you’ve got yourself a personal, polyphonic orchestra. At least, if you’re YouTube user MrSolidSnake745, you do. SolidSnake programs his eight little drives to perform music by systematically altering the speeds at which they run. “The concept behind this is basically […]
