to read!
- Jonathan Crary __Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture___
- Catherine Hales - ___How we became post-human___
to think!
- DIWO - do it with others
- openFrameworks - on the iphone! check the demos - so creative, so cool, so fun.
- Art as research for the future of society and interfaces and life etc.
- Ars Electronica - superdelux new building with LED facade.
- POV tracking even with simple / low cost USB cameras. This allows video overlays.
- Tempt graffiti artist - using eye tracking to enable a graffiti artist to draw again.
- Inspiring the sense of wonder in children. 9
- The west is planning ourselves into organized oblivion. Brazil has 600 ponto cultural(s) because "it is disorganized" - there are not really very many limitations; not very much bureaucracy; tthey are open to any and all new ideas for distribution; the policy response is organic but 'flaky'. Brazil may be pedagology more nimble than the west?
- Open source as ultimately lowering the cost of entry / barrier of entry.
- Art as a means of getting people interested in their world, interested in creating things, interested in taking things apart (deconstruction seems very relevant to western art)
- TopoR - not really realated, but would be nice to have this in kicadocaml.
- Open source needs not only coders, but also the support personnel - the equivalent of all the non-coders in a software corporation. These people's contributions can be as important as the coders'. (e.g. translators).
- the mesh potato - Seems that many have the same idea at the same time.
- Via Artigo - very small x86 motherboard / full computer solution. 1.0Ghz processor, video out, ethernet, usb, 2.5" hdd, all in a 5.25" (CD-ROM sized) case. Via Chris Csikszentmihalyi.
- Goal-direction is best left to partially subconscious control (?) (at least according to some artists at the GOSH conference - but maybe that works best for artists?)
- Programming languages need to be a good compromise between accurate / terse representation of algorithms & data structures (graphical programming languages are bad at representing complicated datastructures, which is why I don't like them), and understanding / exploiting information-processing strengths of the human brain (e.g. visual, linguistic). I actually find that some of the fold-left & fold-right reduce operators in Ocaml are rather non-obvious to use. But maybe I should just study harder :-)
to make!
- Rapid Prototyped Electronic Circuits also a copy - images/767_1.pdf
- http://fritzing.org/ -- very slick, easy to use, interfaces intimately with the Arduino (which itself is an unusual cultural open-hardware phenomena). Mostly written by a Apple programming-guru who got bored and was lured to Berlin. Uses QT. All parts are SVG pictures - even the footprints!
- https://www.open-mesh.com/ -- uses the Ro.b.in and batman protocols. Can be reflashed with any open-source mesh networking firmware. Competitor to Meraki.
- home made CNC - unfortunately, you have to register to see the photos.
to program!
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