ViLT

Levitated | the Exploration of Computation A huge timesaver: extremely usefull collection of opensource Flash Objects by the amazing Jared Tarbell. The code is pure and robust OOP, so very nice to ‘deconstruct’…

… A note on Sondheim (fading, exploding, fading)… One of the more ambitious stuff going on here is the attempt to formulate answers to analyses like the one from Alan Sondheim below (see http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/net4.txt for the complete source text). ‘Answers’ is a bad word, however, it’s more a matter of writing into this kind of […]

“In any net content, but most explicit and visible in commercial content, there’s a strict division between the data and the representation, the business logic and the representational logic. Data that are processed on a commercial website are methodically mapped to instances of representation. Cut up the data into managed objects, make them relate to […]

[this mail was sent to Artist Regina Célia Pinto, keepster of Museum of the essential and beyond that at arteonline.arq.br as my contribution to the debate being held there] Dear Regina, The debate you are holding at http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/debate.htm touches some very emotional strings in me, so I send you this response, cc-ing it to the […]

E-paper displays gaining acceptance – Hardware – www.itnews.com.au E-paper displays gaining acceptance – Hardware – www.itnews.com.au An eager wish for this kinda technology to break through. We do need a comfortable reading experience for digital formats, and in spite of all the fuzz & dotcom booms, we’re still staring our eyes out at these awful […]

hyperlink — (a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen) => link — 1computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list) => […]

… “Le livre unique, l’oeuvre totale, toutes les combinaisons possibles à l’intérieur du livre, le livre-arbre, le livre-cosmos, tous ces ressassement chers aux avant-gardes, qui coupent le livre de ses relations avec le dehors, sont encore pires que le chant du signifiant” Deleuze & Guattari, Mille plateaux,p.159 When Deleuze and Guattari wrote this, there was […]

… If the quality of net art is to be measured by the number of pop-up windows one produces, i will score very badly indeed. Why do all these artists use a pop up window? To liberate their art from the burden of browsers. To make it ‘autonomous’ on the screen. Do they succeed by […]

… SEARCHING = BUILDING = WRITING;no difference whatsoever. No hay caminos, hay que caminar. …