Theaster Gates Sessions now posted onto New School’s YouTube channel
as promised, we finally got all of the clearances to post the sessions and forums pertaining to Theaster Gates’ residency. Here is a short Highlight clip: http://youtu.be/xCnDtYMuAUw And here are the remaining YouTube links: Session 1 – http://youtu.be/ZtQVNsy2630 Session 2 –…
Report on Ben Fino-Radin and Lori Emerson’s Conversation re: Preserving Obsolete Media
Last Friday Ben Fino-Radin, digital repository manager at the Museum of Modern Art; and Lori Emerson, assistant professor of English and director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, convened at NYU to discuss “New |…
Database Aesthetics
Some of the database art / visualization projects we didn’t get to explore in class: Database Cinema Jon Witney: Catalog, 1961 Created by “manipulating basic mathematical functions” to create “databases of effects” Peter Greenaway, Prospero’s Books Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema,…
Final Presentations
We’ll all be sharing our final projects on December 3 and 10. The schedule of presenters is listed here. We can dedicate 15 minutes to each presenter — including set-up time and Q&A. So, you should probably plan to talk…
Processing Post on Database Episteme from Nov. 12th
Data. Information. Knowledge. The abstractions feel almost like puffs of smoke. After reading Chaim Zins essay on data, information, and knowledge and his distinctions surrounding the ways in which to define data and information, I was struck by the sheer…
Processing Post: Database Aesthetics
Ben Fino-Radin talking about the role of the digital currator in conservation frames the his job as trying to predict and fend off the threats to preservation of certain types of digital art materials. His argument alludes to the…
Processing post: readings for Nov. 19
Ben Fino-Radin in his interviews, echoed a lot the topics I’ve been reading about in my research on digital archives. Metadata and emulation are popular. In researching for final papers in this course and others, I came across an article…
Processing Post: Database Aesthetic
This is the first time I thought about what it would mean to archive work that uses APIs of other services. APIs are the pluggable ends of databases that allow for retrieval (and sometimes insertion) of data. It has become…
Processing Post: Database Episteme
Charles & Ray Eames’ educational cartoon, expounding on the wonders of the newly invented electronic calculator, archives a mindset of the digital age that seems more in context after reading Tim Sherratt’s article on EJ Brady. Ideology aside, the inspiration…
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