Re: [NetBehaviour] (a question from algorithms) Re: Aljazeera and Koons?

2015-08-23 Thread none
Hi James, Sounds very interesting indeed - thanks! Bugs offer a fantastic focus here! A sort of Bug oriented analysis of production? ;) In that case, perhaps it could be claimed that maybe a factory machine, or even a certain mode of operation, can be thought of in terms of an algorithm? I

[NetBehaviour] For a talk I'm giving @ Pitt-Johnstown Day of Digital Humanities

2015-08-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
For a talk I'm giving @ Pitt-Johnstown Day of Digital Humanities September 12, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in Johnstown, Pennsylvania http://www.alansondheim.org/macgridsection.png http://www.alansondheim.org/keyword.rtf (as rtf) http://www.alansondheim.org/keyword.txt (as

Re: [NetBehaviour] (a question from algorithms) Re: Aljazeera and Koons?

2015-08-23 Thread James Morris
Factories and algorithms and Jeff Koons probably evoke all sorts of images I worked in factories for a number of years scraping a living. Some of them were bug ridden in the sense they never ran smoothly, the machines frequently broke down. Rain coming through the ceiling halted production

[NetBehaviour] (a question from algorithms) Re: Aljazeera and Koons?

2015-08-23 Thread none
A quick question? In this interview, JK talks about a factory of people working to produce His stuff. They seem to work by Knowing the Kind of stuff he'd do - and by the very fact they implement that knowledge under JK's supervision and finance, the objects are His. A question: Is it reasonable

Re: [NetBehaviour] banksy dismaland

2015-08-23 Thread ruth catlow
Hi, It is art as marketing. It is cynicism-lite. In tune with Brit Art's long running strategy to dash any public expectation that art might actually do, or say, or stand for anything... other than to induce a series of dreary snorts of disappointment. In the UK we are plagued by its repeated