HOW TO - Riley Cox
very cool and clever card-driven small jacquard loom build
Poetix – Post Position
Nick Montfort's poetics: "Writing very small-scale computational poems allows me to learn more about computing and its intersection with language and poetry. Not computing in the abstract, but computing as embodied in particular platforms, which are intentionally designed and have platform imaginaries and communities of use and practice surrounding them."
The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI | Ars Technica
turn your back for a second and everything just gets much, much worse
New Tendencies - Monoskop
"The organizers of NT initially sought to consciously accompany and form the historical transition in which the computer was perceived as medium of artistic creation. They set computer generated works in relation to Constructive and Kinetic art (1968/69) and to Conceptual art (1973). The arts of the electronic media were not considered as an isolated phenomenon but rather incorporated into the history and discourse of fine-and performing arts."
Mike Lyon: Biography & Technical Development
really interesting set of processes and techniques (CNC woodcuts etc)
AI+history - Search - IEEE Spectrum
oscar schwartz series (including algorithmic bias etc)
Memex #001
"The father/daughter team of Trevor F. Smith and Sparks Webb have gathered all available documentation about the memex and carefully fabricated the Memex #001 to match Dr. Bush's specifications."