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“How to Do Things with Videogames” by Ian Bogost [Books, Review, Games]

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From Roger Ebert's pedantic proclamation that "video games can never be art" to the clichéd fawning over the truckloads of revenue generated by each new release in the Modern Warfare series, gaming consistently inspires overarching conversations about media and culture. ...

The Frankenfont [Processing]

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The Frankenfont project by Fanthom (Ben Fry and co) is an edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein laid out using characters and glyphs from PDF documents obtained through internet searches. For each of the 5,483 unique words in the book, the team ran a ...

The Infinite Adventure Machine [MaxMSP, iPad]

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The Infinite Adventure Machine by David Benqué is a computer program which generates fairy-tale plots. Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales to 31 basic functions, the project addresses the difficulties of automatic story generation ...

Print Stuff [Scripts]

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Print Stuff is a personal project by Guido Tamino allowing strangers to use his printer at home forming basis of what will eventually become a book. Basically he is inviting everyone to print some stuff (a short message and a picture) in ...

Written Images [Books, News]

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Created in collaboration with more than 70 media artists and developers from across the world, Written Images is the first of its kind, a 'programmed book', continuously regenerated for the digital printing process, offering each reader a unique experience. The team, including ...

“A Philosophy of Computer Art” by Dominic Lopes [Books, Review]

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A Philosophy of Computer Art is a text that may interest some readers of creativeapplications.net as it covers the intersection of computing and art, discussing some of the classics of interactive art, and doing a lot of thinking about what ...

Jacob’s Cave [Cinder]

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Latest from David Wicks (sansumbrella) and selected for the WrittenImages book is this beautiful geometrical study created using Cinder. David writes: Jacob's Cave developed in response to seeing a range of helictite formations in a show cave in Missouri. Helictites grow downward, but also ...

FORM+CODE Book + Giveaway [News]

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FORM+CODE is the latest book by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams + LUST and published by Princeton Architectural Press. The book offers an insight into design by code used by designers, artists and architects to explore and derive to new ways of generating ...

100 Abandoned Artworks [Processing]

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Matt Pearson, aka zenbullets has just hit "publish" on the last of 100 Abandoned Artworks, a library containing 100 Processing experiments dating back to 2008, most open source and available for download. This is a wonderful collection including some very ...

myFry [iPhone]

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Published by Penguin, myFry is an iPhone application allowing you to interactively explore Stephen Fry's autobiography, titled "The Fry Chronicles" (released yesterday). Instead of doing something rather prosaic like reproducing the printed book on a touchscreen (though the whole book is here, every ...
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