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First Digital 3D Rendered Film (1972)
Below is a very early digital 3D rendered film (possibly the first one, ever). It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar) and Fred Parke with a little help from Robert B. Ingebretsen.
The best part of this film ...
Daito Manabe: being real about being material [Theory]
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- 22/05/2011
An artist with a background in DJ-ing, electronic music, and visuals for clubs in Japan and now all over the world, Daito Manabe tends to make virtual things real, rather than vice versa. One of the things that I find ...
What is at stake in animate design? [Theory]
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- 17/01/2011
Grey Walter’s robotic tortoises ELSIE
Usman Haque has, on several occasions, made the observation that there is an important difference between interactivity and responsiveness (see for example -pdf). A responsive system is a fundamentally linear set of relations, a kind of ...
“A Philosophy of Computer Art” by Dominic Lopes [Books, Review]
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- 23/12/2010
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 ...
myFry [iPhone]
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- 14/09/2010
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 ...
Processing.org Exhibition now curated by FV [News]
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- 31/08/2010
From September 2010, myself with CreativeApplications.Net will be the curator of the online exhibition of projects on Processing.org. It's a great privilege and pleasure to contribute to the almost 10 year old open source project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. ...
Phaidon Design Classics [iPad]
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- 08/05/2010
Created by Phaidon, 200 years of design classics is now available on the iPad. The application offers access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless designs by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, ...
Begotten [iPhone, Mobilizing, c++]
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- 02/05/2010
Begotten is an iPhone application created by Matthieu Cherubini during the Mobilizing Wokshop in Geneva earlier this year.The application is based on the somewhat disturbing movie Begotten made in 1991 by E. Lias Mehrige. It includes a large map which ...
Faust [iPhone]
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- 22/04/2010
Faust (German title: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a silent film produced in 1926 by UFA, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother ...
Archigram Archival Project [Reference]
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- 21/04/2010
It's a pleasure to announce to CAN readers that this amazing project I have been working on for the past year is now live and ready for your perusal. The Archigram Archival Project [AAP] makes the work of the seminal ...


































