The following is a live post which includes some strong statements which I might temper later. If anyone asks, I … More
Category: rant
PhD Thesis: Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts
With some minor corrections done, my thesis is finally off to the printers. I’ve made a PDF available, and here’s … More
Motivation
Now here’s an hour well spent, Bret Victor giving a talk on “Inventing on Principle”: He demos some really nice … More
Computational thinking
Some great news today that the UK school ICT programme is going to be replaced/updated with computer science. As far … More
There must be no generative, procedural or computational art
This blog entry feels like a work in progress, so feedback is especially encouraged. Lately I’ve been considering a dichotomy … More
Best known and wrong: Dreyfus and Dreyfus
Since dipping my toe into cross-disciplinary research, I’ve noticed that it seems the best known results of a field are … More
New old laptop
My old laptop was falling apart, but buying a new one presented all kinds of ethical problems of which I … More
Sonic boom
I’ve been peeved by this FT article, and failing to express my annoyance over on twitter, so time for a … More
Novels are digital art too
Digital means discrete, and analog means continuous. Digital and analog support each other, as Deleuze and Guattari put it: … … More
Cyclic revision control
There is something about artist-programmers, the way they’re caught using general purpose languages and tools in specific, unusual circumstances. Many … More