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by Mark Callahan
11 blocks • 8 days ago

I am sitting in a room (1969) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known works, featuring Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated.

http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/source/Lucier-Alvin_Sitting.mp3

Alvin Lucier "I Am Sitting in a Room"...

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Updated a month ago

"Although Douglas Hofstadter, the American professor of cognitive science, famously speculated that recursive loops were the secret to consciousness, there is a more intuitively convincing opposing argument. This position regards the loop as a mechanism that causes a cognitive lock when perceived in a given system of meaning. In other words, loops are things you get stuck in; this is an actuality represented in many forms, from mathematical problems to narrative devices."

frieze issue 155 "Loop the Loop"

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Updated a month ago

Duration: 67 minutes Disclaimer: This is a VHS rip of what is perhaps the most delicate and beautiful film ever made. In classical terms, this verison doesn't begin to do the work justice.

UbuWeb Film & Video: Stan Brakahge...

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Updated a year ago

[Type drawing](http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettmacfadden/sets/72157606815900949/) by [Brett MacFadden](http://brettmacfadden.com/) of [MacFadden and Thorpe](http://www.macfaddenandthorpe.com/)

Razzle Dazzle

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Updated 8 days ago

ibooks_wallpaper.png

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Updated a month ago

Life magazine illustration of memex, from Vannevar Bush "A We May Think" 1945
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hut-where-the-internet-began/277551/

LIFEmemex.jpg

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Updated 3 months ago

Brancacci Chapel

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Updated 4 months ago

Internet Soul Portraits

Added by Mark Callahan
Updated 7 months ago

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962.

Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All...

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Updated 8 months ago

Simple Net Art Diagram

Added by Mark Callahan
Updated a year ago

speech and typography

by Mark Callahan
30 blocks • 6 months ago

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Added by Mark Callahan
Updated 6 months ago

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new album "Mandatory Fun" out now: http://smarturl.it/MandatoryFun Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic performing Word Crimes. (C) 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes

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Updated 6 months ago

"Caring Friends" brings together a group of transcripts from videos found on the web. Created for an exhibition curated by Barry Jones for Terminal Physical Space,...

"Caring Friends" 2013

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Updated 6 months ago

A small television sits out front, playing TV. Projected onto the wall directly behind is a live transformation of the television signal. In this version, we used a live feed from the SOAP channel, a non-stop source of American daytime soap operas and frighteningly loud commercials.

Set Top Box

Added by Mark Callahan
Updated 6 months ago

'Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines' (Release date: July 14, 2017) Order Now - Sub Pop Mega Mart http://u.subpop.com/2q09tMp Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines is one of two fully-realized albums of new Shabazz Palaces material that expands the Quazarz universe.

Shabazz Palaces - 30 Clip Extension...

Added by Mark Callahan
Updated a year ago

Cranbrook Academy of Art

by Mark Callahan
13 blocks • 12 days ago

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by Ashton Merck
87 blocks • 18 days ago

multi-panel display

by Mark Callahan
14 blocks • 2 months ago

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