Website of the week 5

These contemporary drawing machines echo some of the devices on show at Cybernetic Serendipity in 1968 while simultaneously rejecting a modernist trajectory by the use, in many cases, of pre-digital technology. Some of them definitely possess a certain Victorian mad scientist chic.



I'm not sure what to make of these yokes. Are they just weird contraptions with pens attached? Is the art in what is produced, the means of the production, or a combination the two? Anyway you can check out the set here

The real art lovers amongst you might like to watch this. I think Leonardo would have approved.

Thanks to Sean Fallon at Gizmodo for this gem

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For those of you who can't resist it, and why would you? the AC/DC spreadsheet video can be downloaded here. This does not mean I condone head-banging in any shape or form, especially in my lectures!

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Website of the week 4

This week's WOW comes from Antrepo Design Industry

It consists of a series of movie posters which are a kind of reductio ad absurdam of film hype. The designs simply list the brands promoted by or integrated into the movies being promoted. In an important sense these posters open up for consideration the way commercial film has become little more than a means for pushing products on unsuspecting consumers.

It is particularly appropriate in the week following the release of the latest Bond movie, a franchise that probably did more for product and brand hyping via the cinema over the last 40 years than any other.

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Website of the week 3

This, or by now last, week's WOW is Joyce Walks by Irish artist and NCAD old boy Conor McGarrigle.






According to it its maker

Joyce Walks is a psychogeographical tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce's Ulysses in any city in the world using Google Maps. The system prints maps to be used as the basis of walks exploring the city of your choice and generates mashups using your pictures and videos documenting these walks to share with other users.

Need I say more? I thought not.

Check it out and make up your own walk in the city of your choice. On a less cerebral level this could be a great tool for generating random pub crawls with literary pretensions as well.

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