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Aug 30, 2021

Lying Flat

躺平 Sometimes it is good to lay down, and instead of expelling heat, allow oneself to soak it in. The title Lying Flat comes from a movement in China today, Tang Ping (躺平). Many workers are exhausted by the “996” culture–9AM to 9PM 6 days a week–and other intense pressures…

Lying Flat

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Lying Flat
Lying Flat
Lying Flat

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Aug 30, 2021

Seen As Machine

Photography’s Copernican Trauma — Seen as Machine is an interactive physical sculpture. It is made of a modified Linhof 4x5 camera with a digital back. But in this case, atypical of most digital backs which converts the ground glass of an analog camera into a digital viewing and capture device, this device flips the…

Photography

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Seen As Machine
Seen As Machine
Photography

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Jul 21, 2021

worlding.earth Post Mortem

Reflecting on the process of making my interactive website — As a cumulative hurrah to put a cap on Gray Area’s 2021 Creative Coding Immersive, all the students had the opportunity to apply the software/hardware tools they had learned during the course and generate a work to display in an online gallery. Having already premiered (you can still view the…

JavaScript

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worlding.earth Post Mortem
worlding.earth Post Mortem
JavaScript

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Jun 9, 2021

Taking Inventory of Yourself

Photogrammetry, Control, and Identity — The Process At the start of February 2021 I began to take an image of myself everyday. I sat down on the edge of my bed, straightened my posture, and looked forward at the same spot in the corner of the room. Each day I moved the tripod a few inches to…

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Taking Inventory of Yourself
Taking Inventory of Yourself

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Mar 30, 2021

Mitosis: The Image’s Extended Phenotype

How images exhibit the memes that control them — This is a stream of consciousness write up, with some citations made in post, about how I think images operate. The story of Narcissus is one of overextension. Narcissus is a character in Greek mythology, who is born handsome, knows it, and becomes obsessed with how he looks. He gazes…

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Mitosis: The Image’s Extended Phenotype
Mitosis: The Image’s Extended Phenotype

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Mar 17, 2021

Tweening

Is this object discrete or continuous? — Tweening is a technique in animation where an animator adds intermediate frames in between two key frames. An example is an animation of a character walking. In the first keyframe the character might have their left foot forward. In the second, their right foot. The tween frames are the frames…

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Tweening
Tweening

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Feb 1, 2021

Keyscape

A chronology of keylogging my own data exhaust — This work was an exploration of my personal “data exhaust.” There is a magic in using a computer. It does not just take instructions; it is not just an Analytical Machine that executes instructions given to it. It feels alive, like it listens and responds and learns. It appears to…

Quantified Self

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Keyscape
Keyscape
Quantified Self

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Jan 16, 2021

Lensless Horizon

This work documents seven data centers dotted across the Pacific Northwest operated by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. It highlights the usurping of the camera by data centers: in each of these photographs the data centers graphically take the camera’s traditional place at the top of a tripod. …

Network Image

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Lensless Horizon
Lensless Horizon
Network Image

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Jan 14, 2021

Does a network have an inside?

According to Bruno Latour, it does not. — Latour, a philosopher, writes in the essay Some Experiments in Art and Politics, “…networks have no inside, only radiating connectors. They are all edges. They provide connections but no structure. One does not reside in a network, but rather moves to other points along the edges.” The understanding of network…

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Does a network have an inside?
Does a network have an inside?

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Jan 11, 2021

Second-order Data Exhaust

The footprints of data centers — “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” Buckminster Fuller, I Seem To Be A Verb Data exhaust are the footprints you leave behind as you go about your digital life. Every action you take on a digital…

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Second-order Data Exhaust
Second-order Data Exhaust

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tywen kelly

tywen kelly

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A student of Media Ecology. More work at https://www.instagram.com/tywensnotes/

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