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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.
Re: Fwd: HorizonZero 10.1: PLAY: Growing up digital
> > PLAY: growing up digital
> >
> > http://www.horizonzero.ca
> >
> > Dueling phantom pigs ...a narcoleptic hoary marmot ...a sunny LopArt
> > sandbox
> > ...a magic fish mobile. Countless surprises await those who stumble
> > into
> > HorizonZero's PLAY valley.
Ah, well, here is another surprise: Banff got about a million dollars from
the Canadian Heritage org, i hear, to do this horizonzero project. That's
quite a hoary marmot. "showcasing the best in Canadian digital arts +
culture." and the magic fish mobile. Where is the mad cow?
ja
http://vispo.com
> >
> > http://www.horizonzero.ca
> >
> > Dueling phantom pigs ...a narcoleptic hoary marmot ...a sunny LopArt
> > sandbox
> > ...a magic fish mobile. Countless surprises await those who stumble
> > into
> > HorizonZero's PLAY valley.
Ah, well, here is another surprise: Banff got about a million dollars from
the Canadian Heritage org, i hear, to do this horizonzero project. That's
quite a hoary marmot. "showcasing the best in Canadian digital arts +
culture." and the magic fish mobile. Where is the mad cow?
ja
http://vispo.com
Curtains by Alex da Franca.
http://www.farbflash.de/curtain by Ulala and Alex da Franca of Germany is a
piece called Curtain. Input the URL of an image on the Web. Curtain imports
it and hangs it like a curtain or laundry out on the line that you can grab
and play with. This sort of image manipulation is usually really slow on my
400 Mhz machine but was pretty good in this case. The Director source code
is available, also, for those who would like to see how it was done and have
Director installed.
Alex da Franca's Web site at http://www.farbflash.de/director , like many
Director developer sites, contains links to works he's done but also to
source code and to tools he has developed for Director. Much of it is 3D and
'imaging Lingo' oriented.
ja
http://vispo.com
piece called Curtain. Input the URL of an image on the Web. Curtain imports
it and hangs it like a curtain or laundry out on the line that you can grab
and play with. This sort of image manipulation is usually really slow on my
400 Mhz machine but was pretty good in this case. The Director source code
is available, also, for those who would like to see how it was done and have
Director installed.
Alex da Franca's Web site at http://www.farbflash.de/director , like many
Director developer sites, contains links to works he's done but also to
source code and to tools he has developed for Director. Much of it is 3D and
'imaging Lingo' oriented.
ja
http://vispo.com
Eolas v. Microsoft
Here are some links concerning the Eolas v. Microsoft case. Eolas sued
Microsoft for patent infringement and was recently awarded $521 million.
Eolas appears to have a patent on the idea of embedding objects (in certain
ways, I presume) in HTML documents. This outcome of this case apparently has
the potential to make Microsoft alter IE so that it does not infringe on the
patent, though whether this will happen remains to be seen. This could well
affect all HTML pages where things like Flash and Shockwave and other
plugins are embedded. I just read of this today, first I've heard about it.
Anybody been following this and know about it in some detail?
http://www.lexisone.com/news/nlibrary/m081203e.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent
http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2003/aug11art1.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/other/08-11-03EolasStatement.asp
Here is some writing from 1998 about this issue (it has been brewing a long
time):
"On November 17th [1998], little Eolas came into effective control of U.S.
patent number 5,838,906 for an invention described as "a distributed
hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing
interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document."
Say that fast three times. The patent is held by The University of
California in the name of inventors Michael Doyle, David Martin and Cheong
Ang. Doyle is the CEO of Eolas, which is the exclusive licensee of the
patent.
Read the patent, and you'll see it covers the use of embedded program
objects, or applets within Web documents. The patent also covers the use of
any algorithm that implements dynamic, bi-directional communications between
Web browsers and external applications. Every Web browser you can name
currently supports embedded applets, and is therefore in violation of the
Eolas patent. But wait, there's more! The Eolas patent covers the whole
concept of executable content, which is at the very foundation of Java. So
it looks like Java, too, is in violation of the patent. For that matter, so
is Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ActiveX.
The patent stems from work done in 1993 by Doyle and Co. at the University
of California at San Francisco, where they built an interactive 3-D medical
visualization. These guys showed working applets and plug-ins in their
enhanced version of Mosaic to NCSA, Microsoft and Sun a couple of years
before any similar products like Navigator 2.0 or Java appeared on the
market. It's not like these outfits can claim to have developed their
products ignorant of Eolas' work.
What does this have to do with the various Microsoft legal cases?
In the case of Sun versus Microsoft, it looks like Eolas is in a position to
put Java out of business, if it likes, not to mention big parts of Netscape
and AOL."
This is from http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html
Microsoft for patent infringement and was recently awarded $521 million.
Eolas appears to have a patent on the idea of embedding objects (in certain
ways, I presume) in HTML documents. This outcome of this case apparently has
the potential to make Microsoft alter IE so that it does not infringe on the
patent, though whether this will happen remains to be seen. This could well
affect all HTML pages where things like Flash and Shockwave and other
plugins are embedded. I just read of this today, first I've heard about it.
Anybody been following this and know about it in some detail?
http://www.lexisone.com/news/nlibrary/m081203e.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent
http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2003/aug11art1.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/other/08-11-03EolasStatement.asp
Here is some writing from 1998 about this issue (it has been brewing a long
time):
"On November 17th [1998], little Eolas came into effective control of U.S.
patent number 5,838,906 for an invention described as "a distributed
hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing
interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document."
Say that fast three times. The patent is held by The University of
California in the name of inventors Michael Doyle, David Martin and Cheong
Ang. Doyle is the CEO of Eolas, which is the exclusive licensee of the
patent.
Read the patent, and you'll see it covers the use of embedded program
objects, or applets within Web documents. The patent also covers the use of
any algorithm that implements dynamic, bi-directional communications between
Web browsers and external applications. Every Web browser you can name
currently supports embedded applets, and is therefore in violation of the
Eolas patent. But wait, there's more! The Eolas patent covers the whole
concept of executable content, which is at the very foundation of Java. So
it looks like Java, too, is in violation of the patent. For that matter, so
is Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ActiveX.
The patent stems from work done in 1993 by Doyle and Co. at the University
of California at San Francisco, where they built an interactive 3-D medical
visualization. These guys showed working applets and plug-ins in their
enhanced version of Mosaic to NCSA, Microsoft and Sun a couple of years
before any similar products like Navigator 2.0 or Java appeared on the
market. It's not like these outfits can claim to have developed their
products ignorant of Eolas' work.
What does this have to do with the various Microsoft legal cases?
In the case of Sun versus Microsoft, it looks like Eolas is in a position to
put Java out of business, if it likes, not to mention big parts of Netscape
and AOL."
This is from http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html
Re: PLEASE DO NOT SPAM ART
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
>
> http://spam.trashconnection.com/
Very interesting. I like the combinatoriums linked from the above url. But I
suspect people will not want to 'submit' because it is so linked with the
notion of spam, and these days, well, there's hardly anything else. What
does AlphaMail_words.cgi do? And AlphaMail.cgi? And what do you do with the
email addresses? These sorts of unanswered questions make this project,
though very interesting, difficult to participate in and one that you
hesitate to ask much about...though that might be part of the project. But
it is obviously intelligent and interesting in its conception and execution.
What is www.artknowledge.net ?
ja
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
> Please do not spam!!
>
> http://spam.trashconnection.com/
Very interesting. I like the combinatoriums linked from the above url. But I
suspect people will not want to 'submit' because it is so linked with the
notion of spam, and these days, well, there's hardly anything else. What
does AlphaMail_words.cgi do? And AlphaMail.cgi? And what do you do with the
email addresses? These sorts of unanswered questions make this project,
though very interesting, difficult to participate in and one that you
hesitate to ask much about...though that might be part of the project. But
it is obviously intelligent and interesting in its conception and execution.
What is www.artknowledge.net ?
ja
Re: Museum of democracy for beginners
Those are very memorable, manik, as are your other 'x for beginners'.
ja
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