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How digital changed Photography> New Era in Instant Photography

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All things Patti at GUNG HO 2000

A new Generation of Readymades

Beauté Fatale (in French).

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Melding with your Music in an Immaterial World from FEEDmag.

FEED | Essay: The Judgment of Paris; or, read all about "Brad's Life in Hell : Bienvenue à Paris".

Salon Technology | Google: We're down with ODP

A great day at XPLANE.

There is life after passing 30 years old> Jasper Johns: Still Producing Riddles, Still Profoundly Opaque and still kicking-ass.

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chemical computers [not yet in beta]> Research Team Creating New Computer Technology....
Also at the NYTimes, unsacredArt and Mess'in with the Whitney.

Real online art space at Rhizome.org: The New Media Art Resource. Why web space cannot be modelled after a parallel real world.

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Cinema about the Futurist's future-past, not to mention, from the same site, Futurists from the pasts' Manifesto. We need more manifestos on this here net.

Cinema about cities> history, memory, place and people in Urban Legends by J. Hoberman at the Village Voice.

I was a builder.com or webmonkey addict for web design tips until they both became dull and neglected. I've since put webreference.com on my daily list. For graphics> Let There Be Lines by Wendy Peck is excellent.

Very-interFace [Dangerous for your desktop> Procede with Caution] Synesthésie (9).

2cute4comfort> Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Being There Live & in 3Dcolor> CyberForum@ArtCenter Spring 2000

Understanding Music> The NYTimes' guide to everything you might already know, or not in Talking Music.

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Deflecting technology>
As much as I might feel like "a kid in a candystore" when I get my hands on a new rig or the latest upgrade to my favorite software, I actually don't hesitate to revert back to my "bull in a china shop" methods of using this stuff. Which, in my case, is not necessarily a bad thing. A tool like softimage in the hands of an animator creates polymorphic talking heads. I'm more interested in taking, say, inverse kinetics and enveloping, which are used in 3D modelling to create things like elbow joints and skin, and turn them into spatial hyper-organisms whose walls are links to other rooms, materials and colors are redefinable tags and whose spatial organization(s) unfold like a falling stack of cards.

Artists' tools>
Softimage is finally pushing their vision of the future of 3D out the door. At webreference.com, their excellent continuing series on 3D outlines how animators and artists must adapt to the new modalities made possible with these tools in The New 3D Artist. Both visions of the future of 3D count on interactivity between object, scene and user as their focus. You can read about the new softimage XSI, how movement and animation will become mixable, composited attributes of objects. The softimage scene viewer is already available for download. It will permit remote viewing, sharing and interaction of complex 3D datasets and animations over the net without softimage on the client system.

Review of some of the tools of the trade> Real-Time 3D Tools for the Next Generation

Don't know your texture map from a data set> Here's a great online glossary of 3D terms.

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Being there> PATTI SMITH: On-line Chat : March 20, 7:30pm EST or @ 20 on 20.03.3900 Internet Time.

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Gore and Bush spend a lot of time trying to redefine and capture the fledging political center according to their own twisted visions of what it should look like. At National Philistine, the political visionaries from art's center, your reactions to political ideology is anticipated with unexpected imagary. They're not hedging their bets.

Not about computer-sex, Probe My Ports is kind of a sexy article on computers.

Another in the continuing series of one for the Apathy>
This time thanks to Salon Technology | Greyscale paradise, it's ASCII art cross-bred with arcade video games, 70's cool and good beats. All this and not much more at Hi, Res!.
Along the same ASCII lines, though this time kind of a one liner, and it's actually pretty funny. I was dissapointed when Greyscale Paradise came to an abrupt end. BTW, I lost.

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Turning away from the accepted products of culture> Art Brut.

Making art is dirty work, but somebody's gotta do it. It's even tougher when you've been shoved to the edges of society because you're mentally ill, perverse or just plain fucked-up. Art Brut or Outside Art is made by those people. From Rousseau to Gauguin and Dubuffet, the artist began searching beyond the influences and means of production that were taught or apprenticed. The search progressed from the far edges of the planet to the outer bounds of their culture.

THE ART OF MADNESS
Museum of Art Brut

The good news is that the Oxford English Dictionary is now online. The bad news is, you gotta pay a lot of money.

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Art "hitting the streets" doesn't necessarily produce public art, whereby, net.art produces something approaching (at least polemically) networks, computers and browsers. If we are destroying the cult of the artist by giving anyone with ambition, half an ear and Acid Music the chance to be on top of the pops, will artists (even without their cult) still be capable of producing sound, song or scandal?

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What's the difference between, say, broadcasting space, mixing sound or programming a browser, and creating content? Are they necessarily interchangable? Does creation always qualify as content? What is the content of art?

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Scaling> Powers of 10
Creating hyper-organisms> Projecting interface

Instruments of Precision> The Transverse Plane
Bodies Projecting> Giving meaning to MEAT.

Access to remote objects> Telepistemology
Net controlled Puppets> DotComix

The Machine somebody's gotta build> Industrail Equipment
A universe as projected from a system> All Spaces

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"The simplest descriptions are those expressed by only one word."
R. Buckminster Fuller's SYNERGETICS.

Structure> FORM
Clear> Statement
Wet> Play-Lets
Real> Anything can be a gun.
Fake> Adbusters

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Access reality through fiction>
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Access space through text(ure)>
ASCII face avatars : datavatars, where "...creativeness is based on recursion and recoding..." and "...codes and programming enables net art..." at LinX3D Konsum ArtServer.

Access the e in utopia>
Cities mutate. The distinction between real and virtual place fades as communication infrastucture becomes embedded into the urban fabric. William Mitchell explains in e-topia.

Access work and home... somehow>
How did the American landscape and communities develop into containers of traffic, isolation and separation. More informative than academic, feedmag's Sprawl Of America. Written by unwilling actors in this transformation.