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I am a digital artist and writer whose practice explores issues surrounding artificial life, complex adaptive systems, data manipulation and interactivity. I am particularly interested in...
Marketing and Publishing Materials
Case Study - Rezzable
It has taken me a while to be able to write about this unit. The biggest problem I have is trying to tease out ways for it to be relevant...
Numbercrunching (using a single stock quote for Barclays) …
The variables available for a single stock quote are:
stock symbol
last trade
trade time
date
change (+ or -)
open
day's range:...
Above a complex structure of semi-transparent boxes an unresponsive avatar gazes at two steely pod-like objects suspended in space. Every so often, one of these pods begins to glow and a tentacled,...
I was going to write about Rezzable, a content creation and experience design company based mostly within Second Life. Unfortunately, as they are a very small private company it has proved...
Glyphs:
General Info
Georg Prohaska, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch: Glyphs and Visualization of Multivariate Data, Vienna University of Technology, August 2007
Visualization and Visual...
The above is only an image. It won't work online because of security restrictions on the use of loadStrings. You can download the source code and run it on your computer …
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Processing...
csv example
I found this example on the Processing forums.
The first thing to do is to pick through the code and see what it does …
//declare a string type variable called "URL" and define its...
This is a test page
You can contact me at one of these email addresses …
a_underscore_spinster_at_hotmail_dot_com
a_dot_spinster_at_rave_dot_ac_dot_uk
In-depth reading:
Steve Grand: Creation - Life and how to make it (Orion Phoenix, 2001)
Steve Grand is the creator of Creatures, the first computer game to use genuine artificial life. In this...
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The Gold Market
These gold prices are from Galmarley.Com which has a lot of information about how the gold market works. The "Gold Market" is not one single entity, but...
I think the most appropriate expressions to use for the Chernoff faces would be happiness, sadness, surprise and fear. Anger and disgust are, I am sure, frequently experienced by stock market...
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Switchboard with Processing
Sadly, the project code hasn't been updated since 2006, so I can't imagine it still works as Processing has changed a lot in that time. I might try it anyway as it does...
Unreal Tournament Art
Second Life Art
OpenSim
Ideas for trips …
piksel - December 4-7 2008 Bergen, Norway - Festival for free/libre & open source audiovisual software, hardware &...
A prototype investigating ways of transferring data between a shaker attached to an Arduino Board and some creatures in Second Life. When the shaker is agitated, the creatures in Second Life will...
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Bestiario - data visualisation, artificial life, swivelly website.
Information Aesthetics - form follows data - data visualization & visual communication.
Paul Neave -...
I have succeeded in making a face which reflects rising and falling trades on a happy/sad scale. I have omitted the calm/shocked scale for now. This is just a picture, it won't work in a web...
New Land and some thoughts on Software Architecture … (09/04/09)
So I now own 1/8 mainland sim (8192 sqm), plus a couple of small extra-prim parcels on the same sim. I have a total of almost 2000...
Hello, and welcome to my MA wiki.
Please treat this wiki as a big jumbly sketchbook, rather than as a coherently organised website :)
Please do leave comments - I'd love some feedback.
My First...
The Brief:
Produce marketing and publishing material for their personal course project. This material should communicate:
- the purpose of their project, the problem it is seeking to resolve or...
Keywords
ecosystems; emergent behaviours; contingency; non-human interaction; inadvertent human interaction.
Proposal
I am interested in the ways information flows through a system and the ways in...
Mask
by Robbie Dingo
just a beautiful thing …
Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents … ARTIST'S STATEMENT N0. 45,730,944: THE PERFECT ARTISTIC WEB SITE
This is also available in...
OpenSimulator is an open-source technology based on Second Life. It enables me to host an entire region on my own computer. I could connect my region to the OSGrid for free to share the project.
A...
Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing faces in random patterns. I have not investigated the psychology behind it in any depth, but it ties in with us being hard-wired to recognise faces (babies...
Print On Demand
Part of the inspiration for this project is Print On Demand book technology …
"Put simply, print-on-demand (POD) means you can print just one book at a time. In the past, to...
POD Building PDF
RSA Design Directions proposal: A Changing World (Patchwork World model)
POD Building Research
This system is aimed at anybody needing to produce new buildings of any type,...
“What alchemical transformations occur when you connect everything to everything?” (Kevin Kelly in Sadie Plant: The Virtual Complexity of Culture, FutureNatural, London: Routledge, 1996)
For...
Scope
This art project will take the form of an interactive installation, situated out of doors in a patch of woodland or other ecosystem. The installation will consist of a screen or projection...
Paper (PDF): Virtual Worlds for Virtual Lives
A Feasibility Study to Determine the Suitability of Three Different Virtual Environments for Creating an A-Life Art Project using a Virtual Ecosystem...
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test page MA
trying to embed a zoho slideshow
this code doesn't work:
[[embed]]<iframe...
Some thoughts on using Second Life as a medium for making my project …
Advantages
1 - I already know my way around the building tools and am making good progress with scripting in LSL. It will be...
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Nonnatus Korhonen
Research Strategy
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Interactive Digital...
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25 November (Tue) - Research Presentation
1 - 5 December - workshop week
1 December (Mon) - academic tutorial - 2pm
12 December (Fri) - last day before christmas
5 January...
Software architecture
Some of the many definitions of software architecture can be found here. Here's a few quotes which seem to relate to the way I am working …
Ebenezer Adegbile (Consultant,...
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Some thoughts on using the Unreal games engine for my project …
The main advantage would be that I could produce much higher quality graphics than I could using Second Life or something similar....
Challenges and solutions …
smooth, continuous movement
Scripted movement in Second Life often looks jerky. This is because changing an object's position causes a 0.2 second script delay. One...
Imaginary Money Graveyard
This interactive installation is the first artistic response I have seen concerning the current financial climate. I'd like to go back and try some machinima...
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What's New … in Fashion Design?
“Apparel professionals are faced with a unique visualization challenge—the inherently 2D production cycles, with flat patterns and...
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A group project to produce 360 content on the theme of new technologies in the creative industries.
For this project I am part of the "content" team, and will also be helping write copy.
We started...
