La lettre n°17


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Bluetooth will enter Google Earth as a “temporary place”. To not move, to let oneself be teleported via satellite optics, in order to swoop down on the - literally - blue tooth. Not anywhere, exactly on this georeferenced point equidistant from the Houses of Denmark, Norway and Sweden of the Cité internationale de Paris… The treasure hunt is your responsibility (CF. Etienne Cliquet’s blog). An origami has snuggled into a fold of Google Earth, a new occurrence of the encoding/folding undertaking to which Etienne Cliquet devotes himself with the humour and the seriousness required. The Ordigami folds, unfolds, encodes and charts, intricates consecutively the researches of the “computational origami”, the language games and the instructions to which the conceptual artists… bend. Surprises : the suggested unseemliness lets glimpse the congruence of apparently antithetic imaginaries. A traditional art of paper and the digital technology are submitted to incessant transfers and heartening shiftings, bent to the artist’s philosophical factory.

The month's work of art

Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Etienne Cliquet, November 2007

The Drive Scroll screen saver displays the data from a disk drive as a scrolling image. The data is directly copied to an RGB screen buffer without interpretation.

Downloadable screensaver for Windows.

 


Artiste's screen
Drive Scroll
Drive Scroll
Greg Sidal, 2001


The Grand Tour in the  Digital Humanities' age
After the first outlines drawn from the visit of the University of Virginia, we are resuming our Grand Tour in the Digital Humanities’ age with a series of portraits to present the Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities.  Read more...

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