Yesterday the audio-input and/or output of the logic board of my Powerbook G4 was destroyed. It happened while playing a composition of Thomas Köner. Whenever I turn on the volume on the laptop there’s a very loud high pitched noise. And I mean very loud – much louder than you’d image would be possible. Think: ear-piercing. Everything else still works. Well, the option is to have a new logic board installed (400 – 700 euro’s), or just keep working on this machine and not use sound. And eventually when other parts start breaking down buy a new one. Hmmm.
So I started testing my old white ibook, the one that had screen problems. Maybe I could use that for playing music?
I’ve been searching for this quote forever. Browsing through old syllabi I find it, somewhere in the text ‘Art as language’ by Yury Lotman – very heavily underlined annotated by myself, but not this sentence:
Art is the most economical, compact method for storing and transmitting information. But art also has other properties wholly worthy of the attention of cyberneticians and perhaps, in time, of design engineers.
[I guess, with design engineers Lotman refers to what we now know as ‘programmers’].
My annotation – dating from around 1988 – “ONZIN” (=nonsense).
Yury Lotman, The Structure of the Artistic Text, Ann Arbor, 1977, (1970), p. 23
An good analysis of why there are so little women in the Open Source community: http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184415216. (Via Artem Baguinski).
META is a bunch of artists, techies and other suspects in Amsterdam: http://www.makingelectronicthingiesinamsterdam.nl. They organize workshops in which they (and you), well, the name of the group says it all: make electronic thingies.
http://improvisingguitar.blogspot.com/ brings to my attention that he cannot leave comments here. I’ve tried it myself, not even I can leave comments… Apparently there’s something wrong. Must’ve happened since the blog was moved to another server. We’ll look into it.
Next year: experience design starts at the HKU, Utrecht: http://experiencedesign.hku.nl/index.php, looking at a world in which all things & everything will be connected.
Anne Helmond has a nice bit about the Ubiscribe-event at DEAF, and beautiful photo’s: http://www.annehelmond.nl/2007/04/16/deaf07-ubiscribe-collocollaboracontentquery/.
And I promise, from now on I will not use Powerpoint anymore for presentations. (Why did I ever choose to use Powerpoint for my Ubiscribe-sheets? A decision once made, on a morning, with little time, then one is stuck with it builds on those sheets? Something like that…)
Back in 1983 / 1984 the poet bp Nichols wrote a dozen programmed kinetic poems for the Apple II. They are revived, by Jim Andrews and others, in different formats: http://vispo.com/bp.
It’s also a good example of the problematics concerning the conservation of digital art…
5 minutes after I posted my entry on moving, I receive a comment from which I gather that a spamblog has hijacked/copied my post on an apparently totally new WordPress-spamblog of which I am not going to give the URL to prevent further idiocies…
Why? To install spyware? Have me click? Speaking of total wastes of times that make the world a worse place to live this sort of stuff must be in the top 10.
I was actually going to write that it’s not so bad with the Digitenne single tuner as I thought. I can turn on the timer of the videorecorder and turn off the tevee and still have it record. I just have to make sure the tuner is on & tuned to the right channel. Phhiewww. I’m not as stupid as I thought I was.
Peet http://sneaker.nl/articles/2006/12/20/wil-je-ook-eens-een-keertje-minder/ tells me about this software: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom – and hmm, although I’m quite often doing the apple-tab thing (swithing quickly between programs), I might like this.
Just text text text!
Alas, it’s only for 10.4 & I’m still using 10.3.9 – maybe this will make me upgrade (when I find the time — …)