Inspiration
By Edward Gorey
By Don Kenn
By Ralph Steadman
Work: Complete book!
Transcript of Story:
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Reading Response: Creating Time For Busy People
I love math. I know that's a bit taboo to say in the art world, but I do. There's something comforting in rote memorization of processes and absolutely correct or incorrect answers. And math art is the same way. It's linear and smooth and complex but not in a way that makes it incomprehensible. Even infinite bell curves have a start and (generalized) end point. You can follow it. It's self explanatory. It's modern art without the confusion of literary allusion.
So with that in mind, I really like Victoria's time project both intellectually and visually. I'm not going to say that it's like looking at a Picasso, but I think there's something interesting in being presented with raw data and being forced to come up with a unique way of visualizing it. I'm not necessarily sure I agree with her sentiment about time, because hypothetically the digital self interacting with other digital selves functions on a very generalized set of dynamics, and would presumably veer off, sort of like that Pandora station that starts with Radiohead and ends with Bach, in a pretty short amount of time. Also, unless we become the Borg and can assimilate data instantaneously, one would have to look at the information as it grows to keep the organic data host (person) in sync with the virtual one, or the point is moot because you've just created a second entity that only vaguely resembled the original at it's inception.
Really fun to think about though.
By Don Kenn
By Ralph Steadman
Work: Complete book!
Transcript of Story:
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01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 00100000 01110111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110
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Reading Response: Creating Time For Busy People
I love math. I know that's a bit taboo to say in the art world, but I do. There's something comforting in rote memorization of processes and absolutely correct or incorrect answers. And math art is the same way. It's linear and smooth and complex but not in a way that makes it incomprehensible. Even infinite bell curves have a start and (generalized) end point. You can follow it. It's self explanatory. It's modern art without the confusion of literary allusion.
So with that in mind, I really like Victoria's time project both intellectually and visually. I'm not going to say that it's like looking at a Picasso, but I think there's something interesting in being presented with raw data and being forced to come up with a unique way of visualizing it. I'm not necessarily sure I agree with her sentiment about time, because hypothetically the digital self interacting with other digital selves functions on a very generalized set of dynamics, and would presumably veer off, sort of like that Pandora station that starts with Radiohead and ends with Bach, in a pretty short amount of time. Also, unless we become the Borg and can assimilate data instantaneously, one would have to look at the information as it grows to keep the organic data host (person) in sync with the virtual one, or the point is moot because you've just created a second entity that only vaguely resembled the original at it's inception.
Really fun to think about though.
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