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Self-Portrait

September 10th, 2012 by Jim Andrews | 0

I recently got a small commission to create a couple of self-portraits for a visual art show in Vancouver on self-portraiture. The curator saw an earlier dbCinema piece I did called The Club that incinemates the faces of my favorite North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths. He asked me to do related work with [...]

A Short Video About Aleph Null

August 3rd, 2012 by Jim Andrews | 0

Here is a short video I put together about Aleph Null, an interactive, generative, online work I wrote in HTML 5 and JavaScript using the new <canvas> tag. The video was first shown at the Morgantown ELO confererence. It was my contribution to a panel involving Leo Flores, Giovanna Di Rossario, and Mark Marino, who [...]

The Club

April 28th, 2011 by Jim Andrews | 4 comments

The Club is a moving-image digital collaging of 57 images of selected North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths from the eighties till the present. There’s also a linked slideshow of some stills from the video. The politicians are conservatives who have blasted away both at home and abroad. Via deregulation, the shock doctrine, and [...]

LongestPoemInTheWorld.com

August 21st, 2009 by Jim Andrews | 3 comments

Here is the author’s description: “The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •) Made by Andrei Gheorghe.” It’s interesting [...]

Re: Spiritual Materialism

July 22nd, 2009 by Jim Andrews | 2 comments

‘m sure ‘spiritual materialism’ could mean any number of um things. that’s part of its poetical if not philosophical appeal, as poetry is the art of being profoundly vague. so one doesn’t like to ‘disambiguate’ too strongly. however, here’s a bit more about what i had in mind. others will have their own, different notions [...]

Book by Dominic McIver Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art

July 21st, 2009 by Jim Andrews | 0

Dominic McIver Lopes has a book coming out in August called A Philosophy of Computer Art; info at http://www.apoca.mentalpaint.net. He teaches Philosophy in Vancouver. Nice to have a different sort of approach to these matters. A philosopher. And he talks about my piece Seattle Drift. In which the basic philosophy is ‘do me’. Which, come [...]