http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface some ideas for people and machines Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:40:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Marek Walczak is an artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in phsycial and virtual spaces. This has led to digital tools and interactive projects such as Apartment which was shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide. Dialog Table has recently been completed for ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/92/ John F. Simon, Jr. is an artist who uses programming language as an activated extension of written language. His software programs are displayed on the web and also on wall-mounted LCD screens. His software compositions never repeat. The beautiful patterns and movement emerge from Simon’s process of considering ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/91/ W. Bradford Paley is an interaction designer and artist whose focus in both worlds is readable, clear, and engaging expression of complex data. His visual representations are inspired by the calm, richly layered information in natural scenes. His process invokes three perspectives: rendering methods used by fine artists and ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/90/ “…Lacan reminds his students over and over to stop trying to understand everything, because understanding is ultimately a form of defense, of bringing everything back to what is known. The more you try to understand, the less you hear—the less you can hear something new and different.” http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/89/ Rama Chorpash Design focuses on how divergent cultures can celebrate existence through design. Through his New York atelier, Rama designs benchmark products, electronics, packaging, environments and furniture. Work ranges from consultancy, entrepreneurship to objects of provocation. Projects are done just a few at a time, thus employ a high ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/86/ The island in Midsummer Night’s Dream is intelligent, Caliban quiets his friends when they were frightened by it. The text here was taken and translated automatically many times over from English to German to English - a babel device created by Jonathan Feinberg - it produced new cadences to an ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/99/ coming? http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/98/ As interfaces mature into being windows onto the data feeds that people care about (e-mail, calendars, news) the varying degrees of consciousness or intelligence behind these feeds should be drawn to reflect varying degrees of self-directedness–evoking presences from table to refrigerator to TV to dog to phone to AI assistant: ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/97/ who knows? http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/96/ To plant is to put in place – control. Wander off the beaten path into wilderness, and plants reveal their sentience. In the kingdom of living beings, they are independent from us. Beauty lies in their province. How might our interfaces exhibit such qualities of splendor: autonomy, wildness and ... http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/walczak/futureface/93/