intelligent agent - Vol. 4 No. 1
The first installment of articles from Vol. 4 No. 1 is now available at
http://www.intelligentagent.comintelligent agent is published in a modular format:
*3 thematic threads
Threads of Vol. 4 No. 1:
//the DEMO scene//
//generativity//
//vj/dj//
*reviews of DVDs, games, Web, books, projects
All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout.
NEW:
//editorial//
+Patrick Lichty, On the Essential Nature of Conciseness
Patrick Lichty discusses the challenges that the genre of new media and its
practitioners have to face in communicating to an audience outside of the
cultural niche of technological art.
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//the DEMO scene //
+ Shirley Shor & Aviv Eyal, DEMOing: An Emergent Art Form or Just Another
Digital Craft?
Shirley Shor & Aviv Eyal give a historical survey of 20 years of DEMO scene
-- from the Old School 'hacker art form' to today's 'New Scene'...
//generativity//
+ James Faure Walker, Algorithmic Art
In 1997, James Faure Walker pondered algorithmic / generative art and its
historical connections and place in the art word at large. Seven years
later, his essay begs the question how much has changed when it comes to the
acceptance of this art form.
//vj/dj//
+ Kim Cascone, Grain, Sequence, System [three levels of reception in the
performance of laptop music]
Kim Cascone discusses the reception of laptop music performance and the
challenges it needs to overcome. Not surprisingly, many of his observations
also apply to the reception of 'new media art' in general.
//free radical//
G.H. Hovagimyan, GH's Automated Home Reading List
G.H. shares the research for a project he is currently working on -- focused
on the Smart House -- in the form of an annotated reading list. His
selections connect the concept of the digitally enhanced, smart home to
early Utopian ideals and the ideological construction of the 'home'
throughout history.
//reviews//
game:
+ Patrick Lichty, Tron 2.0
On the 20th anniversary of the cult movie Tron, Buena Vista Interactive has
released Tron 2.0. -- a first-person 'shooter' that almost doubles as
interactive machinima with
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