February 2006

99 ways

Administrator | February 28th, 2006

Stuart Bailey, talking about a recent worksop at USC, california. Using Georges Perec’s system of the Exercice de style, where the same action is described in 99 different writing styles, Bailey interessantly evokes this practice into Graphic design language: “The implication of this in terms of graphic design is that any piece of work could […]

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The story so far

Administrator | February 28th, 2006

A little summary of the walks done in the field of books, during past 2 month Book is in mutation. What it shows is a different apprehension and use of language and codes. Books are no more the only one media support, but has its own specificity. Dematerialisation, new ‘seeing’ practice, technical progress, new beauty […]

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Rights in time

Administrator | February 24th, 2006

A little reminder about legal ownerships and public domain: For music, rights become public domain: – 75 years after creators death. – 50 years after interpreter death. For books, a text becomes public domain – 70 years after writters death. – 70 years after the book/text is published. But in 1998, the legal term have […]

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Copiers

Administrator | February 22nd, 2006
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A smart way to do interviews…

Administrator | February 21st, 2006

Interviews of Robert Stein and Peggy Awhesh using game network! www.thisspartanlife.com

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When in doubt, cut it up

Administrator | February 21st, 2006

Ex. from the editorial of Electric Newspaper, issue 2. Psychic TV “So, in caseI.T. is unclear. Any and all of the audio files, loops, or even longer trance sections on this CD, are FREE to whoever wishes to utilise them. We, Ourselves, have all ways sampled, cannibalised, and reworked our own documentary recordings and master […]

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Death Factory

Administrator | February 21st, 2006

We wanted to make music and records more effective and relevant to our Industrial society, and we wanted to make business more efficient and creative as well. Industrial Records Limited was born. Named as the most unromantic yet appropriate title we could envisage. http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/tg/tgnewsframe.html

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Poetry of Code

Administrator | February 15th, 2006

open(THIS,’and’);open (THAT,”>>and”);while(){print$_; print THAT”#$_”}; “#to”; close (THIS); From opening Perl poem, of Florian Cramer. 2001/3, public domain. Gopher: http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/

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I hate Macs and I hate the Police.

Administrator | February 14th, 2006

Those 2 movements are patented by Apple Macintosh Company. The related article. After DRM, we can threat another ambush for E-ink future devices (lybris, Reader). It seems the run for having patent on everything is getting further. 4 years ago, there was this dance affair, in Belgium, where 2 choregraphers sued each other for stealing […]

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By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters…

Administrator | February 13th, 2006

I\IIIIIII/IIII\IIIIIIIIIII_ IIII\\IIII///II_II\\IIIIIII II//I\\IIIIIII\\\IIII_IIIII IIIIII\IIIIIII\IIIIIIIIIIII IIIII=IIII///IIIIIIIIIIIII\ The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges I would love to have a program that generates those books, and keeping on memory “real” words, and writting another book with those words. Generating all combination possible of letters, Computer poem, as genius as the whole world litterature… “There are five […]

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