Art by Machine

July 22, 2008 (09:38 AM EDT)

Conceptual art in the 1960s appeared at the same moment when it started to become possible for artists to stop making art and instead simply direct a computer—or other machine—to do it for them.

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June 18, 2008 (06:36 PM EDT)

MyArtSpace recently interviewed me about my work and research into visual music.

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May 23, 2008 (12:22 AM EDT)

Pushing the Performance Envelope. Mary Hallock-Greenewalt was a musician, engineer, inventor ... and exceptional.

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April 22, 2008 (08:12 PM EDT)

Robert Rich discusses the economics of being a small, independent artist/producer. His experiences agree with my own, much smaller ones arrived at over a shorter period. The conclusion he does not provide, but hints at, is that to survive within the long tail as an artist you need to already be established.... and even then it's uncertain.

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April 13, 2008 (06:02 PM EDT)

The musician Moby has started a project called Gratis to give away his music for non-commerical use in movies. Worth taking a look.

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March 9, 2008 (09:33 AM EDT)

The new issue of Vague Terrain is all about VJs and VJing. Vague Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ was guest curated by Saskatoon-based VJ/artist Carrie Gates and presents a great, international selection of video and theory.

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January 22, 2008 (06:27 PM EST)

I feel very sorry for all these folks who've upgraded their software and now can't do their work because the new version applies DRM that prevents them from doing stuff with files they make. Somehow it doesn't come as a surprise, though.

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January 16, 2008 (08:20 AM EST)

This " 62-in-1 Card Reader + Hub for SATA, USB 2.0, 1394/Firewire & Audio 3.5" Drive Bay" Hub would sound like a much better idea if it didn't force me to slow-down the firewire to USB speeds. Why can't it also connect via firewire if it has an "in" port for it?

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January 3, 2008 (07:26 AM EST)

This Stainless Steel Camera is a sign of the future: the divide between professional and consumer, instead of gradually going away, is going to become ever wider and more obvious. The professional equipment will record high-quality, ready-to-edit footage, and consumer devices will be more concerned with their fashion-sense than with the ability to control the quality or do much with the finished footage. I'm not surprised by this development: it makes sense if you want to gradually eliminate the consumer-as-producer, just gradually do away with consumer tools that are as good as the professional ones.

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January 2, 2008 (07:03 AM EST)

A new study called "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video," by Center for Social Media director Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, co-director of the American University Law School’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration.

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