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Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968
"I wanted to imagine whether "CD culture" might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve."
turns videos into Ascii Art or retroish pixels
You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here.
"In today's world of huge, sharp LCD monitors, it's hard to remember what a videogame image looked like on an ordinary television of the late 1970s. Emulators like Stella make it possible to play Atari games on modern computers, serving the function of archival tool, development platform, and player for these original games. But unfortunately, they also give an inaccurate impression of what Atari games looked like on a television."
"In 2002, Touch invited a group of sound artists and composers to re-imagine the ringtone."
"The disc features 177 tracks by artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Fennesz, New Order, Hecker, Gilbert & George, Mika Vainio, Mark Van Hoen, Phill Niblock, Simon Fisher Turner, People Like Us, Oren Ambarchi and Chris Watson."
flash emulation of the TR-808, TR-909 & TB-303 <3 !
"There’s now a configurable web app for the semi-transparent vectors evolution approach mentioned earlier. (...) you provide a JPEG URL and then hit the Start button to watch the image mutate and evolve."
"Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process"
Interesting aesthetic. "call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real."
"the period beginning September 1993.[2] The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet."
"Dorothy applies every Photoshop filter, in order, to a photograph "
"we focus on the challenging problem of enhancing the aesthetic appeal (or the attractiveness) of human faces in frontal photographs (portraits), while maintaining close similarity with the original."
it allows to navigate in a video by moving objects from the video as a seekbar... i'm not sure it's useful or efficient, but it works !
it's not working perfectly well, but that's a great idea
"evoking the ancient with materials collected from the fossil bed of technology" / The perfect blend between hieroglyphic and microchips circuitry
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