Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: rentagerman


On Wednesday, April 06, 2005, at 11:01AM, johannes blank <headquarter@rentagerman.de> wrote:

>i am german and want to find out, how the reactions are on offering this service.

I greatly enjoyed reading the site. I found it very cathartic after a bad experience with a German management team last year. Thank you.

Possibly a pan-European rental site would be good? Rent two Italians and get a Spaniard free?

>rentagerman is also a reaction to the high unemployment rate here in germany. germans have been already rented out for real. and the official german statale agency for work wants to collaborate.(!!!)

The site seems to be a very effective social commentary, then. I'd say that makes it worthy of being in the artbase.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: web evolution


My first job a decade ago was Python scripting. I chose Python because
I wanted regexes but I didn't want the neural burn from Perl's sadistic
syntax.

I'd recommend Ruby to newbies, it has a more regular syntax than
Python. I'm on to Lisp myself, which is a genuinely powerful and
advanced programming language, and very good for the web (see Paul
Graham et al).

- Rob.

On 31 Mar 2005, at 02:00, Robert Spahr wrote:

> I will jump in here and agree by saying that perl is quite useful for
> learning basic programming skills, and combined with shell scripting
> it is
> a great glue to connect many separate command line programs into a
> powerful
> combination.
>
> Another nice thing about perl is you only have to learn a small subset
> of
> the entire language, in order to write quite useful and powerful
> scripts.
>
> -- Rob
>
>
> Pall Thayer wrote:
>> I just want to point out that this wasn't just absent mindedly "thrown
>> out there". I sincerely think that Perl should be required learning
>> for
>> artists interested in working with computers. It's rather easy to
>> learn,
>> it makes for quick prototyping of ideas if not a full solution and
>> it's
>> capable of giving the artist near complete control over the computer
>> and
>> it's capabilities. It's the quick-and-easy do all tool like the pencil
>> and paper sketch. You can use it for web-based projects, to read or
>> write to your peripherals, to interact with your microprocessor,
>> manipulate or create images, you name it. Also, it would give the
>> students a good general knowledge of programming concepts and
>> techniques
>> making it easier for them to pick up other languages and just
>> basically
>> understand how the computer deals with information and data. On top of
>> all this, it comes pre-installed with most major OS's, complete with
>> full documentation and is easily installable on Windows.
>>
>> Pall
>>
>> Komninos Zervos wrote:
>>
>>> "Perl should be
>>> required learning for all first year digital arts students."
>>>
>>> Pall
>>>
>>> anyone else like to weigh in on this one?
>>>
>>> k
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> komninos zervos
>>> lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major
>>> School of Arts
>>> Griffith University
>>> Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23
>>> Gold Coast Campus
>>> Parkwood
>>> PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre
>>> Queensland 9726
>>> Australia
>>> Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141
>>> http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos
>>> http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs
>>> http://spokenword.blog-city.com
>>>
>>
>
> --
> --
>
> Robert Spahr
> http://www.robertspahr.com
>
> On the heath Lear asks Gloucester: "How do you see the world?"
> And Gloucester, who is blind, answers: "I see it feelingly."
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http://www.robmyers.org/art - All my art, Creative Commons Licensed.
http://www.robmyers.org/weblog - Free Culture and Generative Art blog.

DISCUSSION

Re: christian oppression in usa = laughable


On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 04:09PM, t.whid <twhid@twhid.com> wrote:

>Regardless, how is the majority being oppressed by letting two guys get
>married or allowing a women to control her own body?

Their morality has been invalidated in the laws of a country that is supposed to represent them.

Which is the basis of your argument as well.

>your arg has holes. big, wet holes.

And your response has -er- no, this is a family list.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: christian oppression in usa = laughable


On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 03:21PM, t.whid <twhid@twhid.com> wrote:

>A rational argument can be made that it is the extreme christian right
>who are the oppressors by attempting to take away fundamental human
>rights. Two examples: working to ban gay marriage and working to ban
>abortion (both with the POTUS's help and approval).

Both measures have popular support IIRC. Why do you want to oppress the masses?

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Study For A Museum Of The Future


Ten Years

1994 - 2004