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CODING
code literacy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregg-pollack/no-not-everyone-needs-to-_b_5155549.html?utm_hp_ref=huffpost-code
olafur eliasson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olafur_Eliasson
http://www.olafureliasson.net/
Volcano series: http://www.olafureliasson.net/works/the_volcano_series.html
Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code, 2011
“Code as Ritualized Poetry.” Mark Marino. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000157/000157.html
http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/new_fellowship_prepares_women_of_color_for_coding_careers.html
children’s book on coding: http://www.wired.com/2014/02/hello-ruby/?cid=18056704
Amy Jean Porter. “Butterfly Messages.” ARTnews March 2013, critic’s pick; p. 112.
history of the database: http://vvvnt.com/media/history-of-databases
Rafael Araujo’s analog butterflies: http://colossalshop.com/collections/rafael-araujo
Ancient “Curse Tablets”: “may all porcello’s body, limbs, entrails…disintegrate, languish, and collapse…soul, heart, buttocks.” (source unknown)
Toyota recalls cars on account of code: http://news.discovery.com/search.htm?q=toyota%20recalls%20software
Evolutionary and Swarm Design: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jacob/Courses/Summer2001/CPSC599.33/EvolSwarmDesign.html
Hidden in games: http://www.wired.com/2013/05/hidden-messages?cid=8197964#slideid-56262
Creating nature through Excel: http://www.psfk.com/2013/05/japanese-prints-excel.html?utm_content=bufferdf80f&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
Vice President Al Gore: “Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today’s hyper-connected world.“
Mike Bloomberg: Mayor, New York City: “We salute the coders, designers, and programmers already hard at work at their desks, and we encourage every student who can’t decide whether to take that computer science class to give it a try. New York City’s economic future depends on it, and while we’re already giving thousands of our students the opportunity to learn how to code, much more can and should be done.“
Jeff Atwood. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html
Before you go rushing out to learn to code, figure out what your problem actually is. Do you even have a problem? Can you explain it to others in a way they can understand? Have you researched the problem, and its possible solutions, deeply? Does coding solve that problem? Are you sure?
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rolandbart401687.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mitchhedbe297463.html
will.i.am: Musician/The Black Eyed Peas and Entrepreneur: “Here we are, 2013, we ALL depend on technology to communicate, to bank, and none of us know how to read and write code. It’s important for these kids, right now, starting at 8 years old, to read and write code.“
Snoop Dogg, Rapper, Singer-songwriter, Actor: “support tha american dream n make coding available to EVERYONE!!“
http://codecombat.com/
Girls Who Code – http://girlswhocode.com/
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COLLAPSING
“Floral Fields” “bumblebees distinguish flowers based on their colors, patterns, scents, and–as scientists recently discovered–electric fields.” “How to Make a “Plantimal” (smithosonian, p. 71, March 2013.)
James Lee Byars’ “letters on banana leaves in gold ink, his decorative calligraphy resembling a foreign alphabet: “May I say thank you for the very very beautiful Rothko Chapel. The deep purple is sublime.” (ARTnews Dec 2012, p. 26)
Wolfgang Laib’s “wax rooms”; beeswax medium. ARTnews March 2013, p. 30.)
“Painting the Sun and Sculpting Fog.” (Article on San Francisco’s Exploratorium. ARTnews March 2013. P. 60)
Susie Lee, ARTnews Jan 2009 (Caesura, 2005) p 90-91
Amy Myers, Operetta inside Atom, 2008, ARTnews Jan 2009, p 118
“Weird Science” Carolina A. Miranda. ARTnews Mach 2013. “Tissue cultures, genetic modification, cabterial colonies. Over the last decade, more and more artists have been giving up the studio in favor of the laboratory.” p 64-81)
“Zombie Artpocalypse.” (ARTnews Sept. 2013, p 28)
“Ink Side Out” Tim Steiner, Art Farm Yang Zhen (Beijing) 2005; ARTnews Dec. 2012, p. 93.
Wim Delvoye’s Tim; “Delvoye tattos a live pig for his piece”
“Living Bronze Sculpture” Earth, Life, Man. Robert J. Wick. (Advert; ARTnews Dec. 2012, p 72)
William Myers/ Julia Lohmann’s “Co-existence, 2009, london; “this project was inspired by the universe of unseen organisms that inhabit our bodies,” author william myers says of Julia Lohmann’s mural co-existence (smithsonian.com, march 2013. p. 68) Cruise Control: Rn, an app that uses music to help you pick up the pace ($5, itunes); Oprah.com, july 2013
Ken Rinaldo, Emergent Systems: http://kenrinaldo.com/
Noah Fierer “Invisible World,” April 2014…”Few realize how many living creatures surround us and even live on or in us…” (Miroslav Kalab, letter to the ed)
wearechangers.org/unselfies (anti selfie)
Jonathan Keats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Keats#Projects_2010.E2.80.93present ;
http://www.modernisminc.com/artists/Jonathon_KEATS/
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/513_s1135.pdf
Animal Encounters, Human-Animal Studies Vol.6 (Brill, 2009), eds. Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini
Barry Underwood. Norquay (Yellow) Banff, Alberta, 2007. (in Feb 2011 RealSimple Magazine) (simulated illumination)
A model that replicates the functions of the human brain is feasible in 10 years according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. “I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured.”: <del> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904071908.htm</del>
http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html
Hudson River Revival–Louisa Davis Minot’s painting of “Niagra Falls,” contrast to Friedrich’s “Wanderer”; both in 1818.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/an-oculus-rift-for-chickens-gives-animals-the-freedom-to-roam-without-the-roaming/
“Corpse Couture, the fabric of your afterlife”: Pia Interlandi, ecoffins, celestis, eternal reefs, new england burials at sea Wired, Oct 2013.
Wood as the new technological medium: a camping van (jay nelsonart.com), a keyboard (izenbamboo.com(, a spaceship (popular sicence, p 7, june 2014), tv (wired, mat honan) wood buildings/skyscrapers (popular science 50), boat, airplane (pop science 3.14) , scrapwood skateboard, table (gregklassen.com) (sunset, july 2014); Alison Elizabeth Taylor “Swimming Pool” (ARTnews Jan 2009.)
“Music of the spheres” interface, which uses solar-system type interface to access itunes (smithsonian, sept. 2013)
Phil Ross: “His current projects include a long-term effort to grow a large building out of mushrooms” http://rhizome.org/editorial/2228 ; http://philross.org/#projects/mycotecture/ ; http://philross.org/
Wieki Somers‘ Eurocarbon,” “Blossoms,” batboat”
http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/bunny.html
http://ultrafutureworld.com/2008/03/12/tufts-biomimetic-devices-laboratory/
Zoological and obtanical inspirations for pokemon (source unknown)
“A Mightier Wind: a New Way to Rate Twisters.” (Kate Greene, May 2014, p 71).
http://swarmgallery.com/gallery/exhibitions/Natural_Selection.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10104494.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/tech/incredible-new-tech-inspired-by-biology/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
June 1864, Scientific American “in making the soundings for the Atlantic telegraph between Newfoundland and Ireland, a small tube with a valve was fitted to the end of the line, so as to bring up a little of the sediment from the bottom of the sea, and when this was dried it was found to be a dust so fine that on rubbing it between the fingers it would disappear in the cracks of the skin. Under a microscope each particle was seen to be a shell–the home of a sentient being. When these shells are highly magnified, little holes are discovered in them through which delicate filaments protruded that were the animal’s organs of locomotion. As these filaments branch out like the roots of a tree, the animal is called a rhizopod, from two Greek words which signify “root-footed.”
Virtual Goat Game (coffee stains) http://qz.com/234473/why-a-virtual-goat-video-game-is-making-real-money/
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CORRESPONDING
“Into the Wired” “Grand-scale ecology brings a Virginia forest under unprecedented scrutiny.” Smithsonian sept 2013). “Call a Glacier”: http://www.antspiderbee.net/2013/09/calling-the-glacier/ (Joseph Stromberg, 78-79).
“Acoustic Paintings.” Jennie C. Jones “makes paintings that are activated by ambient sounds.” (Smithsonian May 2013).
“Exotic House Plant #4” (2009, ARTnews Oct 2009, p 135)
“When Storm Is Collaborator” (ARTnews April 2013, p 81)
“Plant.” James Jean. (2012, ARTnews April 2013, p 98)
Foxy Productions “Networked Nature” http://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibition/view/659
“Foxy Production presents NETWORKED NATURE, a group exhibition that inventively explores the representation of “nature” through the perspective of networked culture. The exhibition includes works by C5, FutureFarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross,Stephen Vitiello, and Gail Wight, who provocatively combine art and politics with innovative technology, such as global positioning systems (GPS), robotics, and hydroponic environments. In their work Perfect View, San Jose-based collective C5 reached out to the subculture of recreationalGPS users, or geo-cachers, asking them for their recommendations of “sublime locales.” The submitted latitudes and longitudes provided the guide points for a thirty-three state, thirteen-thousand mile motorcycle expedition by collective member Jack Toolin, who photographed the terrain at the given coordinates. The results, presented in triptychs, smartly subvert traditional representations of landscape and notions of the sublime. San Francisco-based collective FutureFarmers’ Photosynthesis Robot is a three-dimensional model of a possible perpetual motion machine driven by phototropism – the movement of plants towards the direction of the sun. Their proposal that a group plants will very slowly propel a four wheel vehicle is a witty take on the pressing search for new forms of energy. New York artist Shih-Chieh Huang’s inflatable installation, EX-S-S-TW, is inspired by everyday household electronic devices and his studies of physical computing and robotics. In this ingenious exploration of organic systems, he creates a dynamic circulation of electricity and air: a living micro-environment. San Francisco-based Philip Ross’ Juniors are self-contained survival capsules for living plants. Blown glass enclosures provide a controlled hydroponic environment, where plants’ roots are submerged in nutrient-infused water, while LED lights supply the necessary illumination. The artist has drawn on two culturally divergent traditions – Chinese scholars’ objects and Victorian glass conservatories – that share the belief that nature is best understood when seen through the lens of human artifice. Virginia-based artist Stephen Vitiello’s Hedera (BBB) unsettles our assumptions of what an appropriate soundtrack might be. The artist has constructed a sprawling vine installation with speakers hidden between the branches that quietly broadcast percussive sounds woven from the speeches and private conversations of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. Creep, by Oakland-based Gail Wight, is an hypnotic three screen time-lapse video of the growth of dyed slime mold. Separately edited sequences play alongside each other, cycling through a sequence of fluorescent color shifts. In her aestheticizing of the normally repellent, Wight creates an ode to the beauty of natural growth patterns. Networked Nature will run in conjunction with the College Art Association’s annual conference in New York, February 14-17, 2007. A reception for CAA will be held on Friday February 16th at Foxy Production.www.collegeart.org Networked Nature is organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator, for Rhizome. The exhibition will tour to the Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York.Networked Nature is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the College Art Association, the New York City Department for Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. A full-color catalogue will be published by Rhizome and available at the gallery. Rhizome is a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways – www.rhizome.org; PRESS: www.newmuseum.org; Falconer, Morgan. “Networked Nature.” Art Review. 9. Mar. 2007: 142. ; Cotter, Holland. “Networked Nature.” The New York Times. 16 Feb. 2007: E28. ; Davis, Ben. “Net Worth.” Artnet. 14 Feb. 2007. Web. ; Hanley, William. “On The Horizon: Our Top Ten List For 2007.” artinfo.com. 3 Jan. 2007. Web.
http://rhizome.org/editorial/18
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/ai_agw-twitter-chatbot-argues-with-global-warming-deniers-automatically.html
“software gardener” http://www.chrisaitchison.com/2011/05/03/you-are-not-a-software-engineer/
Jonathan Keats’ “Strange Skies”: Chelsea Gallery to Screen Foreign Travel Documentaries for Audience of Local Palms and Ficus Trees: http://rhizome.org/announce/view/54695: “February 4, 2010 – Uprooting 450 million years of botanical history, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats announced this week the first opportunity for plants to see distant parts of the planet vicariously – by going to the movies. By special arrangement with the nonprofit AC Institute, Mr. Keats is building a botanical cinema in the Chelsea district of New York City. The theater will host his series of travel documentaries, featuring a selection of European skies, playing from February 4th through March 13th. Skies are the ultimate botanical tourist attraction,” says Mr. Keats. “The cirrus and altostratus cloud formations over Paris are as absorbing for plants as Notre Dame and the Louvre are for humans. Strange Skies will be presented on a special screen developed by Mr. Keats, which projects the diffused light from his movies onto the plants’ foliage. “Plants don’t have human eyesight, and perceive light only in aggregate,” explains the artist, “but they’re highly sensitive to fluctuations in the spectrum since luminosity is the basis of photosynthesis. As an entertainment form, cinema was practically made for them. Mr. Keats has some experience in this realm, having previously filmed pornography for plants – featuring honeybees pollinating flowers – a highly-popular work acclaimed by Reuters and the BBC, most recently screened for an audience of zinnias at Montana State University. However he acknowledges that porn may be “a specialized taste, unlikely to appeal to the many plants that reproduce asexually — whereas immobility is a nearly universal condition within the botanical kingdom.” In other words, his travel documentaries are suitable for all audiences. They may even be interesting for people. “Movie theaters are appealing to us because the big screen makes cinema a shared experience,” Mr. Keats observes. “This is a chance to share experiences with other species.”
“Call of the Bloom” “Bats don’t just look for flowers. Flowers reflect bat sounds to catch the winged mammals’ ears (Susan McGrath, National Geographic 225:3, (128)
Botanicus Interacticus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRSKEIucjk&feature=youtu.be
Cloud Music (1979-1992), David Behrman and Bob Diamond. “The trio created a device that ocnverts live video of the sky into electronic signals, which a music synthesizer then uses to compose and play a score. Their artifact, titled Cloud Music, toured the world from 1979 to 1992, making music that sounds like a cross between whales singing and an dearly Nintendo soundtrack…Now, calm skies wrap visitors in a fog of droning–but changing wewather or the occasional flock of birds can precipitate as soundstorm. “Your’e listneing to vedeo and watching sound,” says associate curator Michael Mansfield” (Erica Hendry)
Yanni Loukissas, “Drawing Data Work.” Yanni Loukissas is based at the metaLAB (http://metalab.harvard.edu/), where he is a principal currently engaged in projects such as Data Artifact (a study of the digital turn in cultures of collecting) and Natures and Networks (a collaboration with the Arnold Arboretum to illuminate new ways of making sense of environmental data). http://yloukissas.com/.
“”Record of the Earth,” “interstellar message on Voyager 1, “since 1977’s launch of Voayager 1, a golden record with an “interstllar message” has been hurtling with it toward the solar system’s edge. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led a team that chose earthly images and souncds to include. A cover etched with “scientific hieroglyphics,” as creative director Ann Druyan puts it, indicates the craft’s point of origin and how to play the message for whoiever (or whaterver) finds it” (Luna Shyr, unsure of source)
“Follow the Leader” “Researchers are unlicking the secrets of how fish swim in coordinated schools” (Carrie Arnold, scientific American december 2013, p. 26).
Chipmunk language, Smithsonian March 2013, p. 92
Bird passwords…
http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/jr-carpenters-etheric-ocean/
“sonic forest” http://janneysound.com/urban-musical-instruments/bonnaroo-sonic-forest/
Excerpt from George Henry Lewes’ Seaside Studies (1858):
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CONSERVING
“Big Data, Big Energy,” “electricity-hogging data ceners could soon powerthemselves” scienctificAmerican.com/jan2014
San Quentin growing gardens; hired ex prisoners to tend them (oprah.com april 2014)
http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Blazing-Trails-Solar-Panels-Could-Replace-Roads.html
“Keeping New Media New” Rachel Wolff. Oct 2013 ARTnews. (Ref. to Nam June Paik’s Random Access, 1963/1979, record player with lengthened axis, records, and moveable pick-up arm, opposite Paik’s untitled (robot); 2005, undergoing construction; Adam Chapman’s Diagram of Isolated Moments Forming a Memory (Andy G), 2008-2009, the figure is constructed by computer-generated lines and forms; “comce viewd on a rear-projection televiision set, Jim Campbell’s Digital Watch, 1991, is presented using a digital projection and flat scren. (76-77).
Andreas Johansson “From Where the Sun Now Stands” (2011-2012) ARTnews Dec. 2012, p. 128 “desolate Swedish toxic waste areas that were abandoned in the 1970s and are now favored gathering spots for bike riders and skateboarding enthusiasts…”
Horse-powered harvesting machine, 1864 (scientific american, april 2, 1864)
http://www.thewritingplatform.com/2014/05/writing-subversive-games-pitfalls-and-potentials/
http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
ShellyeLake “Blackhawk Down, 54″ by 80″, Digital scene simulation on canvas” (ARTnews Nov. 2013, p71).
Products: Doorbot, Frostfire, Doggie Doorbell, Dr. Doormat, Dog Vacay, Nextdoor (Better Homes & Gardens, May 2014, p. 56)
AlgaeTown, What are golden eagles in ariszona eating? Whale Call Project–global ocean app (OApp); users encouraged to share and play whale songs (wired dec. 2013, p. 56)
Product: Wonderbowl Selective Feeder, Skymall, 127
Google/Nest
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/tech/innovation/big-idea-airborne-wind-turbines/index.html?hpt=us_t3
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-e-mann/climate-contrarians_b_5347614.html
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/19/3439048/insurance-climate-class-action-flood/
LASA (Local Air and Space Administration); Jonathan Keats, 2010
Soccket
Sciecntific American, vol xi, no 1 july 4, 1863, automated, mechanical looking bedspring
“A Gaming System Starring…Microbes” Popular Science, June 2014, p. 65
Velaslavasay panorama, on view weekly, www.panoramaonview.org
http://at.cnn.com/2014/04/28/tech/innovation/the-artificial-leaf-power-solar-electricity/?obWgt=articlefooter&iref=obinsite
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/tech/innovation/solar-lasers-ocean-power-energy/index.html
<del> http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/tech/catch-a-train-from-the-sky/index.html?iid=article_sidebar</del>
Sam Lavigne “We Love Pigeons” “Cats with Wings” http://lav.io/category/itp/interspecies/
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/19/3439048/insurance-climate-class-action-flood/
http://www.care2.com/causes/giant-london-landfill-becomes-home-to-several-rare-species.html
Entry on “Dodona,” from Oskar Seyffert’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1894):
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GENERAL
http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/928
Dark Mountain Project: http://dark-mountain.net/about/the-dark-mountain-project/ ; http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-he-feels-fine.html
dark ecologies (timothy morton’s blog)
“Game of Drones” Dec. 2013 ARTnews. p 26.
“The New Collage: contemporary artists are updating the modernist tradition with new tactics and new media.” Rachel Wolff ARTnews Dec 2013, p 60-67. (Ref. Laure Prouvost, Genzken, Cameron Gray, Urs Fischer, Ryan cnamara, Wangechi Mutu)
Alexis Rockman, Bronx Zoo, 2012-2013 ARtnews Dec 2013, p 96.
http://www.envirolink.org/
SLSA, Textures Conference. Riga, Latvia 2010. http://www.rixc.lv/10/en/festival.info.html
http://www.rixc.lv/10/en/conference.info.html
BioMedia. Eugene Thacker. Minneapolis, MN: U of MN P, 2004.
Teri Rueb. http://www.terirueb.net/.
Technoecologies Conference, Riga 2011.
“Zootechnologies: Swarming as Cultural Technique.” Sebastian Vehlken. Theory Culture Society 2013.
Bioartsociety (Finland): Deep Time / Deep Futures
symbiotica / Australia
Hybrid Matters http://nordiskkulturfond.org/en/hybrid-matters-digital-2015-16
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/tech/innovation/big-idea-airborne-wind-turbines/index.html?hpt=us_t3
http://fallenfruit.org/
Julie Dillon Science Fiction Art http://www.juliedillonart.com/
Jellyfish Window Project installation – http://www.walterhugoandzoniel.com/
Nine Spaces Nine Trees – http://www.garyfaigin.com/reviews/2008/2008-05.html
Plastic-Eating Fungus – http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/61260-plastic-eating-fungus-could-help-deal-with-landfill
Nature Reclaiming Space – http://www.npr.org/2014/09/23/350926903/when-nature-fights-back?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140924
Rain-Activated Dress – http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway/blogs/project-runway-blog/season-13-episode-8-the-rainway-recap
Man-made biological leaf – http://vimeo.com/101734446
