Serial Consign
Blog URL http://serialconsign.com
Located Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tags design, digital, information, visualization, representation, media, theory, technology, culture
Digital art, culture and information design by way of Greg J. Smith. Snapshots of key projects and interviews with cutting-edge practitioners.
Latest Blog Posts
- Four or Five Chess Machines on Nov 23, 2009 in Commentary chess fiction gaming narrative performance Reading MUTEK festival CoH John Cage Richard Chartier D. Graham Burnett Lowell Cross Marcel Duchamp W.J. Walter
[Wolfgang von Kempelen / The Mechanical Turk / 1770] The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swayin...
- Ant Scott & Iman Moradi Interview on Nov 16, 2009 in Interview book glitch Ant Scott Iman Moradi
A month ago I posted a glowing review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection, an impressive collection of glitch art compiled by Iman Moradi and Ant Scott. As a follow up to the review, Iman, Ant and I had the following exchange in which we discussed the...
- .txt/091115 on Nov 15, 2009 in .txt
Recently noted: Jer Thorp takes two articles about head injury in the NFL (penned by Jeanne Marie Laskas and Malcolm Gladwell) and creates a Processing tool for mapping the language used within these texts. Thorp uses this visual analysis (pictured...
- Ctrl-V: The Defense on Nov 10, 2009 in Ctrl-V chess fiction gaming narrative Vladamir Nabokov
With vague admiration and vague horror he observed how awesomely, how elegantly and how flexibly, move by move, the images of his childhood had been repeated (country house … town … school … aunt), but he still did not quite unde...
- RevMinds III on Nov 5, 2009 in Link design revminds science
[SYMBRION & REPLICATOR - self assembling swarm robots] A thematic recap of the material I posted during my second (and final) month hosting the Revolutionary Minds Think Tank blog: Edward Einhorn's excitement over advanced projection technology...
- .txt/091031 on Oct 31, 2009 in .txt
Recently noted: One of the most prominent websites on earth, WhiteHouse.gov (pictured above) was just relaunched and is now running on the Drupal content management system. While this transition has garnered extensive media coverage (some clueless),...
- Out of Context: Artists and Web Inventories on Oct 27, 2009 in Commentary database media social web Aram Bartholl Burak Arikan Christian Marc Schmidt
I'm almost done porting my older Rhizome articles over to Serial Consign and it is only fitting that the below piece (published last January) had already been degraded by a moderate case of linkrot. On any given day, the average web user may log into...
