engaging experience

Everything Has a Color

Designers with a wee bit too much time on their hands. View the Flickr photoset.

"Me"

Watch this mesmerizing self-portrait of Ahree Lee. The artist took a single photograph of her face each day for three years.

Unwelcome Visitors

What About the Bone?

There Was A Green Fish

Aptly Named

The Maker Faire just wrapped. I particularly like this self-reassembling chair.

Anyone still wonder why I took my husband's last name when I married?

Four Towers

50 People See

Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote a program to blend Flickr images that share the same tags. The result is "50 People See."

This work has been up for more than a year and it still compels me. Neil writes that "no human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images." But that's not quite right, of course. Humans were involved in envisioning the scene, composing the photos, processing the image files, uploading them to Flickr, tagging them, sharing them, making them available via API, coding their aggregation, displaying them, and tagging the results all over again. So it's really all about humans, all about creative process, in which human interposition is essential, ineluctable.

Complexification Dot Net

More digital art.

A friend turned me onto the algorithmic artwork of Jared Tarbell, visible on his site, Complexification.net.

These images are transcendent - not simply in the sense of surpassing the ordinary; rather, they transcend the materials - or non-materials - of their creation, becoming something else. Or at least, becoming an image of something else, something out of which we might be able to derive meaning, image, reference.

Maybe I'm starting to get under the hood of semantic transparency after all.