the leak in your hometown

this is a great example of culture jamming and while we are on the topic of Augmented Reality,  Breadboard is working with VPAP on a Philly project that will give 8 local artists a chance to create
there own virtual art work and use it to tag locations around town. A new kind of
site-specific…

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*Waiting for VBLANK*

Wil Lindsay, one of three digital artists selected for the inaugural July 4th Art in the Air initiative shot some home video of PECO’s Crown Lights tower in action. Wil’s 30 second clip is an extension of an ongoing project he works on called, VBLANK:

The name VBLANK is derived from the code used to [...]

“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.”

The new synthetic cell carries a line from James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Inscribed in its DNA as a watermark, “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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Adventures in Synthetic Biology

“So this is what we change to reprogram this critter? LOOKS EASY!”

A comic twist on some current events. AiSB.vol1.pdf

Adventures in Synthetic Biology by [...]

The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock

A nice audio clip from NPR on a particular history of distortion: The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock

Music journalist Dave Tompkins has written a book about the vocoder and its unlikely history. It’s called How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop.

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The music of sound: Only Everything Lasts Forever

Only Everything Lasts Forever is a very long sound composition for MP3.  It contains every sound we can distinguish as humans and is approximately 10450 years long.

Kyle McDonald works with sounds and codes, exploring translation, contextualization, and similarity. With a background in philosophy and computer science, he strives to integrate [...]

Decode

“Computational code contains the core data necessary to run a computer programme. It is also becoming an increasingly prevalent design tool. Code is both a new ‘material’ that artists can use and an inspiration for their subject matter. Practitioners are exploring the beauty of algorithms and the artistic potential of computational systems.”

decode

“Digital [...]