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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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OT Harr! Piracy in General
Where has eggplant man gone?
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OT: Using your brain
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Beachballs and repeat loops
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dumb 3D question
Tiger woes
Roxio Toast may be fragging your disk burns
Is this the end of Director?
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To UDP or not to UDP
The pain of timeout objects
How does a behavior discover its own name?
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OT When multimedia was black and white
Can a method know its own name?
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speaking, of which
OT Harr! Piracy in General
Where has eggplant man gone?
Since we are talkin bugs (DMX04)
Editable text causes extra beginSprite events
OT: Using your brain
Off to C++
Beachballs and repeat loops
Protected External images
dumb 3D question
Tiger woes
Roxio Toast may be fragging your disk burns
Is this the end of Director?
Object Expected
To UDP or not to UDP
The pain of timeout objects
How does a behavior discover its own name?
Well now that the Flash people don't like it...
OT When multimedia was black and white
Can a method know its own name?
Wrapping text around images
Er...just plain weird
Flash doesn't play when offstage?
smooth fade
Re: d/y ethereal radio broadcast #45: Pop Will Eat Itself
> http://deepyoung.org/radio/
Wow. I hadn't heard "The Jungle Line" by Joni Mitchell before. That's
brilliant!
ja
Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts through Harlem through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line
In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals of shuck and jive
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line
The jungle line the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging chanting down the jungle line
There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
Poppy poison poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line
The Jungle Line
Joni Mitchell
Wow. I hadn't heard "The Jungle Line" by Joni Mitchell before. That's
brilliant!
ja
Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts through Harlem through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line
In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals of shuck and jive
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line
The jungle line the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging chanting down the jungle line
There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
Poppy poison poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line
The Jungle Line
Joni Mitchell
Re: 'the universal computer' by martin davis
> Deleuze himself wrote a wonderful book on Leibniz, kinda heavy, but if the
> kids are out playing, when they get out playing, reading Deleuze
> is always a
> sublime & doubling joy. Le Pli: Leibniz et le Baraoque, Paris 1988 (sr2)
>
> Don't know whether the Martin Davis book expands on that, but
> it's in those
> writings that Leibniz gives a first
> kids are out playing, when they get out playing, reading Deleuze
> is always a
> sublime & doubling joy. Le Pli: Leibniz et le Baraoque, Paris 1988 (sr2)
>
> Don't know whether the Martin Davis book expands on that, but
> it's in those
> writings that Leibniz gives a first
'the universal computer' by martin davis
am muddling through a pretty good book at the mo i thought i'd mention: 'the
universal computer' by martin davis (subtitled 'the road from leibniz to
turing'). published in the year 2000.
each chapter looks at the work of a particular mathematician/logician,
starting with leibniz (1646-1716); then George Boole (b. 1822); Gottlob
Frege (b. 1848); Georg Cantor (b. 1845); David Hilbert (b. 1862); Kurt Godel
(b. 1906); Alan Turing (b. 1912). With brief mention of a few other cats
like Charles Babbage (b. 1791).
the book traces the contribution of each of these logicians to "leibniz's
dream" of a machine that can reason. so the book has a great deal to do with
logic and language. it has a lot to do with language since the work of the
above logicians can be seen as advances towards languages in which the
reasoning can take place.
this book also looks, toward the end, at the unfortunate misunderstandings
of searle and penrose. whether or not it is the case that there are thought
processes of which humans are capable but computers are not remains an open
question, notwithstanding things like penrose's simply fallacious proofs
that there are.
we be language machines, to some extent, in our reasoning/thinking. the
degree has not been settled.
i would recommend this book to digital artists interested in the historical
and philosophical/epistemological underpinnings of computing. i would
particularly recommend it to writers involved intensely in the digital,
since it concerns the contemporary interpenetration of language, logic and
reasoning/thinking. digital artists tend to be interested in the confluence
of arts and media. i suggest that the philosophical underpinnings of this
confluence concern language in an extrordinary manner.
martin davis, the author, is a distinguished logician and knows the subject
well. he is a prof emeritus of the courant institute in ny. he has written a
related but more technical book on 'Computability and Unsolvability' and has
put together a book of early papers by logicians on 'The Undecidable'.
the mathematical background required to read 'the universal computer' is
minimal.
ja
http://vispo.com
universal computer' by martin davis (subtitled 'the road from leibniz to
turing'). published in the year 2000.
each chapter looks at the work of a particular mathematician/logician,
starting with leibniz (1646-1716); then George Boole (b. 1822); Gottlob
Frege (b. 1848); Georg Cantor (b. 1845); David Hilbert (b. 1862); Kurt Godel
(b. 1906); Alan Turing (b. 1912). With brief mention of a few other cats
like Charles Babbage (b. 1791).
the book traces the contribution of each of these logicians to "leibniz's
dream" of a machine that can reason. so the book has a great deal to do with
logic and language. it has a lot to do with language since the work of the
above logicians can be seen as advances towards languages in which the
reasoning can take place.
this book also looks, toward the end, at the unfortunate misunderstandings
of searle and penrose. whether or not it is the case that there are thought
processes of which humans are capable but computers are not remains an open
question, notwithstanding things like penrose's simply fallacious proofs
that there are.
we be language machines, to some extent, in our reasoning/thinking. the
degree has not been settled.
i would recommend this book to digital artists interested in the historical
and philosophical/epistemological underpinnings of computing. i would
particularly recommend it to writers involved intensely in the digital,
since it concerns the contemporary interpenetration of language, logic and
reasoning/thinking. digital artists tend to be interested in the confluence
of arts and media. i suggest that the philosophical underpinnings of this
confluence concern language in an extrordinary manner.
martin davis, the author, is a distinguished logician and knows the subject
well. he is a prof emeritus of the courant institute in ny. he has written a
related but more technical book on 'Computability and Unsolvability' and has
put together a book of early papers by logicians on 'The Undecidable'.
the mathematical background required to read 'the universal computer' is
minimal.
ja
http://vispo.com