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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: PLEASE DO NOT SPAM ART
is something meaningless when its information measure is maximal, which is
to say, when it's completely random? if it is completely random, then
intended meaning is not present. though the randomness itself may be
intended, and the intention of intended total randomness intended, etc.
of course, whether complete randomness is attainable is a moot point.
in shannonian information theory, there is the notion of being able to
measure the amount of information in a message. but that is not a measure of
meaning. it is a measure of the amount of uncertainty present in the
message. for instance, consider a message that consists of a million ones.
long message, not much information. in fact you already have enough
information to reconstruct it with complete certainty. now consider a
message that consists of a million random zeros or ones. such messages
cannot be compressed with winzip or stuffit or whatever. whereas the first
message compresses down to almost nothing. the more a message can be
compressed, the less information it contains.
ja
ps: received work from turkey's ozcan turkmen the other day. he is a
programmer-poet. he is working out a notion of "entropic poetry". very
interestin stuff.
pss: should you happen across the princeton encyclopedia of poetry and
poetics, have a look at the article on 'semantics and poetry' by philip
wheelright.
psss: and here is the original shannon:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
to say, when it's completely random? if it is completely random, then
intended meaning is not present. though the randomness itself may be
intended, and the intention of intended total randomness intended, etc.
of course, whether complete randomness is attainable is a moot point.
in shannonian information theory, there is the notion of being able to
measure the amount of information in a message. but that is not a measure of
meaning. it is a measure of the amount of uncertainty present in the
message. for instance, consider a message that consists of a million ones.
long message, not much information. in fact you already have enough
information to reconstruct it with complete certainty. now consider a
message that consists of a million random zeros or ones. such messages
cannot be compressed with winzip or stuffit or whatever. whereas the first
message compresses down to almost nothing. the more a message can be
compressed, the less information it contains.
ja
ps: received work from turkey's ozcan turkmen the other day. he is a
programmer-poet. he is working out a notion of "entropic poetry". very
interestin stuff.
pss: should you happen across the princeton encyclopedia of poetry and
poetics, have a look at the article on 'semantics and poetry' by philip
wheelright.
psss: and here is the original shannon:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
Re: [Rhizome]:::DIGICULT:::ENJOY THE DIGITAL CULTURE
I don't know one Canadian site that reviews digital art with the sort of
competence and regularity one sees in a half-dozen sites from Italy.
ja
http://vispo.com
competence and regularity one sees in a half-dozen sites from Italy.
ja
http://vispo.com
Re: [Rhizome]:::DIGICULT:::ENJOY THE DIGITAL CULTURE
other interesting italian online publications (besides those already
mentioned) that review net art and do other things also:
http://www.random-magazine.net and http://www.teknemedia.net
ja
mentioned) that review net art and do other things also:
http://www.random-magazine.net and http://www.teknemedia.net
ja
Re: voice recognition
> something like this?
>
> http://www.bek.no/gif/easylistening.htm
>
> hx
nice. yes, related. in this public situation, was there much accuracy
possible in its recognitions? i don't need it to recognize everything. or
even much. but i do need it to be fairly accurate in what it does recognize.
i don't need 100%. but people have to be able to see that their conversation
and the images are related. the stronger the relation, the better. so the
system just needs to be able to accurately recognize, say, one word every
few seconds and throw out the words it's not real sure about. would be nice
to have quite a large vocab. at least a couple of thousand words. sound
doable within what is currently possible in a public space? i'm thinking it
is possible. people won't have microphone headsets. same sort of situation
as in your piece. only the recognitions will be fed into
http://vispo.com/dbcinema .
you used open source linux voice recognition software?
how was the reaction to the piece?
ja
>
> http://www.bek.no/gif/easylistening.htm
>
> hx
nice. yes, related. in this public situation, was there much accuracy
possible in its recognitions? i don't need it to recognize everything. or
even much. but i do need it to be fairly accurate in what it does recognize.
i don't need 100%. but people have to be able to see that their conversation
and the images are related. the stronger the relation, the better. so the
system just needs to be able to accurately recognize, say, one word every
few seconds and throw out the words it's not real sure about. would be nice
to have quite a large vocab. at least a couple of thousand words. sound
doable within what is currently possible in a public space? i'm thinking it
is possible. people won't have microphone headsets. same sort of situation
as in your piece. only the recognitions will be fed into
http://vispo.com/dbcinema .
you used open source linux voice recognition software?
how was the reaction to the piece?
ja
Re: doron golan animation movies and qtvr works
> http://the9th.com/00/?M=D
>
> I arranged a folder of my works from 2000-2001
> please take a look :)
> doron
interesting contrast with your later works at http://www.the9th.com/04/crow
and http://www.the9th.com/04/revolution and
http://turbulence.org/Works/golan/9allegro .
how do you go from the one to the other?
what is net cinema?
different from cinema on the net?
ja?
>
> I arranged a folder of my works from 2000-2001
> please take a look :)
> doron
interesting contrast with your later works at http://www.the9th.com/04/crow
and http://www.the9th.com/04/revolution and
http://turbulence.org/Works/golan/9allegro .
how do you go from the one to the other?
what is net cinema?
different from cinema on the net?
ja?