Algorithmic Aesthetics
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Algorithmic Aesthetics
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Author : George Stiny
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Algorithmic Aesthetics written by George Stiny and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Chromatic Algorithms
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Author : Carolyn L. Kane
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Chromatic Algorithms written by Carolyn L. Kane and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Science categories.
These days, we take for granted that our computer screens—and even our phones—will show us images in vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how it is produced or how it came about. Chromatic Algorithms reveals the fascinating history behind digital color, tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late 1960s and early ‘70s through to its appearance in commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated colors were—built with the massive postwar number-crunching machines, these first examples of “computer art” were so fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and the gradual closing of the experimental field in which computer artists had thrived. Even so, the gap between the bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the relationships among art, code, science, and media in the twenty-first century.
Contagious Architecture
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Author : Luciana Parisi
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-03-08
Contagious Architecture written by Luciana Parisi and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-08 with Social Science categories.
A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for “modes of thought” exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world—from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture—the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.
Algorithmic And Aesthetic Literacy
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Author : Elke Mark
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-29
Algorithmic And Aesthetic Literacy written by Elke Mark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with Education categories.
This book presents a wide array of transdisciplinary perspectives on computational and aesthetic practices and thinking. Drawing on computer and educational science, artistic research, designing, and crafting, this collection delves deeply into social and educational challenges in the wake of the digital transformation to highlight the manifold ways in which algorithmic processes have become part of our lives.
What Algorithms Want
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Author : Ed Finn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-10-09
What Algorithms Want written by Ed Finn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Computers categories.
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek. We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the marriage vow, the shaman's curse—do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm—in practical terms, “a method for solving a problem”—has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things. If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of “algorithmic reading” and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.
From Point To Pixel
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Author : Meredith Hoy
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Release Date : 2017-01-03
From Point To Pixel written by Meredith Hoy and has been published by Dartmouth College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Art categories.
In this fiercely ambitious study, Meredith Anne Hoy seeks to reestablish the very definitions of digital art and aesthetics in art history. She begins by problematizing the notion of digital aesthetics, tracing the nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements that sought to break art down into its constituent elements, which in many ways predicted and paved the way for our acceptance of digital art. Through a series of case studies, Hoy questions the separation between analog and digital art and finds that while there may be sensual and experiential differences, they fall within the same technological categories. She also discusses computational art, in which the sole act of creation is the building of a self-generating algorithm. The medium isn't the message - what really matters is the degree to which the viewer can sense a creative hand in the art.
The Dj Aesthetic
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Author : Zachary F. Hellman
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2009-04
The Dj Aesthetic written by Zachary F. Hellman and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with Music categories.
This thesis provides an examination of Disc Jockey (DJ) technology, technique, and aesthetics. The history of popular dance music is explored in an attempt to demonstrate the role that technology has played in the development and future of the DJ aesthetic. Criteria for evaluating and producing Disc Jockey Music Technology is pursued in order to define the fundamentals of dance music and the essence of an authentic DJ performance.
Computational Aesthetics
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Author : Yasuhiro Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-26
Computational Aesthetics written by Yasuhiro Suzuki and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The essence of natural computing is aesthetics; for example, in cooking, one of the most common forms of natural computation, the decision to add salt, and how much, is based on the aesthetics of taste. Because touch perception is instinctively related to a sense of beauty, the aesthetics of tactile sense are considered as algorithms by using the Tactile Score, which encodes tactile sensation. This book will appeal not only to researchers of natural computing or aesthetics, but also those working in ergonomic design, haptic-Kansei engineering, philosophy, design and art.
Aesthetic Programming
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Aesthetic Programming written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Unstable Aesthetics
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Author : Eddie Lohmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-01-28
Unstable Aesthetics written by Eddie Lohmeyer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with Games & Activities categories.
Throughout the 1990s, artists experimented with game engine technologies to disrupt our habitual relationships to video games. They hacked, glitched, and dismantled popular first-person shooters such as Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) to engage players in new kinds of embodied activity. In Unstable Aesthetics: Game Engines and the Strangeness of Art Modding, Eddie Lohmeyer investigates historical episodes of art modding practices-the alteration of a game system's existing code or hardware to generate abstract spaces-situated around a recent archaeology of the game engine: software for rendering two and three-dimensional gameworlds. The contemporary artists highlighted throughout this book-Cory Arcangel, JODI, Julian Oliver, Krista Hoefle, and Brent Watanabe, among others –- were attracted to the architectures of engines because they allowed them to explore vital relationships among abstraction, technology, and the body. Artists employed a range of modding techniques-hacking the ROM chips on Nintendo cartridges to produce experimental video, deconstructing source code to generate psychedelic glitch patterns, and collaging together surreal gameworlds-to intentionally dissect the engine's operations and unveil illusions of movement within algorithmic spaces. Through key moments in game engine history, Lohmeyer formulates a rich phenomenology of video games by focusing on the liminal spaces of interaction among system and body, or rather the strangeness of art modding.