Category Archives: art

Reproducing Chuck Close isoluminant paintings.

By anselm | Published: April 20, 2009
The work of Chuck close demonstrates an almost algorithmic perception of the visual image. One wonders if in fact he actually sees the world in this manner. There's a quality to this work that creates a tension with human perception. We are seeing the overall sense of an image but the individual features of that image are in a way unrelated.
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@kissmehere and there! and there! and there! Kissing Booths FTW!

By anselm | Published: April 13, 2009
Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit - commenting on how strange it was that they didn't leverage social networks. For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn't terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
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Iraq Deaths TwitterBot

By anselm | Published: April 2, 2009
We’ve posted an update to our Iraq Deaths agent at http://twitter.com/iraqdeaths . Here I’m going to journal and document the work involved in making this actually work. At a high level this agent makes a daily post to twitter to broadcast any deaths reported by the Iraq War Bodycount database. I should mention that without their efforts [...]
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Biomimetic signaling in Twitter

By anselm | Published: February 26, 2009
Anselm: Have you noticed how it is that the beasts in nature can in some circumstances appear to move as one? Socrates: Indeed. One has to look no further than to witness the swifts descend upon the Chapman chimney tower in Portland.
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OMG I fell off the planet

By paige | Published: February 17, 2009
Hey all, So I have not been posting quite as much as I would like to these days because I have been spending all of my time working on my final paper for school. I would love to say that I had something extra special to post here but I don’t. Instead I will post some exceprts [...]
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Friday Night/Sat Night Music::: Sir Head Fake Selector & Sir Rolling Dollar Selector & Gentleman Matthew

By paige | Published: January 23, 2009
Musical Masterpiece :: Downtown Librarian plays Uptempo Soul and African Funk Friends – This weekend, if you find yourself near: Valentine’s [232 SW Ankeny PDX] Friday 1/23 Tiga [1465 NE Prescott PDX] Saturday 1/24 Drop in and have a drink. Matthew Yake will be spinning records 9pm – Close at both locations. He was kind enough to send me this Youtube Video [...]
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Gary Wiseman writes on Socially Activated Art and the Role and Place of Art

By paige | Published: January 23, 2009
Coming In From The Cold: Towards the Demarginalization of Creative Practice The Artistic Method: Self Reflexivity In Socially Activated Art Gary Wiseman at IGLOO Gallery December 2008 ‘The creative individual, previously known as ‘Artist’ has an unprecedented opportunity to step out of the margins of society into the mainstream. This creative individual may choose to use his/her creative, [...]
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