Category: art
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museum visits in 2022 & 2026: northeast corridor and los angeles
the experience of hearing an opera is that you accumulate a lot of details that are not very significant in themselves. no one of the details in an opera (or in a novel) is a mind-boggling detail. but things just keep coming until you have a huge pile of them. that’s when they start meaning…
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mutilations and translations: bill orcutt’s four louies live (and other works)
my favorite film these days is likely paul sharits’ 1966 film ray gun virus, in large part for its ability to transform the space around it. there are multiple videos on youtube demonstrating this, by playing the film in a room and training the camera on something other than the screen: this may seem ridiculous,…
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bytebeat-ish stuff
lately i’ve been fooling around with bytebeat-like techniques for audiovisual art, lots of low-level bit manipulation type stuff – anyway one of the places that’s led me is using short bytebeat-like expressions (lines of code that look something like “t >> 3 ^ t” – see viznut’s post about it for an explanation) to, rather…