From the MIT webpage:
"The whorls and swirls of color may look like something by art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, but the winning images from MIT's annual 8.02 "Weird Fields" contest are really computer-generated visualizations of vector fields.
To help students understand electromagnetic force fields, Professor of Physics John Belcher and colleagues at the MIT Center for Educational Computer Initiatives developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said."
Jason Salavonsays:
"MTV compiled a millennium list of the "Greatest Music Videos of All Time". Each of the videos in the top 10 of this list were digitized in their entirety. The individual frames from each video were then simplified to their mean average color, eliminating overt content. These solid-colored squares were then rearranged in their original sequence and are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom."
Differenzierte bebilderte Geschichte der (statischen) ASCII-Kunst, die bei handgeschriebenen Textbildern beginnt, über konkrete Poesie, Schreibmaschinenkunst und andere Vorläufer bis hin zu einer Typologie von ASCII-Kunst und Abgrenzung von verwandten Künsten. Unter gleicher Adresse gibt es auch eine umfangreiche Sammlung von ASCII-Kunst, ein Tutorium und zahlreiche Links. Verfasserin ist Joan Stark.
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From the microsound mailinglist: "A couple of days ago I was watching an avi file of Blade Runner, when, at a certain point the video started skipping and glitching producing some beautiful visuals. I took some stills and I uploaded them without any retouch, I just resized 'em a bit." More
"Mister Ministeck Norbert Bayer is known for his notorious pixelextravaganza and has created an unexpected renaissance of an almost forgotten technique: The mosaic.
But he wouldn't be known as Mister Ministeck if his mosaics weren't somehow special: They're made from plastic. To be exact: From little plastic pieces, placed on a grid. This children's creativity-game named Ministeck was first produced in the sixties by a small bavarian company."
William Abraham Blaze usually posts some of his "gameboy- style-distorted" graphics (actually he used photoshop) on his weblog.He also has a website only for his picture, but I can't find the link at the moment.
The new electronic currents are marked by technology, therefore the musician's creative attitude is dictated by the influence of their tools more than any other moment in history. Electronic music is supposed to spin around electronic technology as well as most of the experimental electronic music from the 80's and 90's was focused to the exploration of new creative and production tools -such us sampler and different kinds of synthesis. The new computer tools let the musician work in an environment where information is the star. more
In the world of clear signals, perfect transmission, fibre optics communication and digital radio broadcasting, the aesthetic forms that imperfect transmission manifests are grossly under-appreciated. That is, to all but a few talented individuals who actively embrace glitches and seek to bring them to life in new and aesthetically pleasing ways. More
Glitch Aesthetics: In the depths of techno fetishism and communication arts.
A brief description of the theme:
In everyday communication it seems we are all seeking perfect transmission.
As millions of bits are pushed from one location to the other, countless error checking protocols exist to eliminate the possibility of imperfect transmission or reception. The breakdown of communication within any form of communication structure or device, creates artifacts. Capturing and appreciating these artifacts is now considered to have become the domain of glitch art. More
The Aesthetics of Failure:
'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught. Link
Prick up your ears
Can a CD full of silence or the noise of a ticking clock really be as rewarding as a Beethoven symphony?
