Milton’s Balm Cruft - Nov 17, 2019
Sun, Nov 17, 2019 @ 18:26:04 | PermalinkAbashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely–saw, and pined
His loss— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV
This auto-generated video is made of media fragments from the 1980’s. These images and sounds promised a future that now seems lost.
Plattsburg, N.Y. - June 15, 1946
Sat, Nov 9, 2019 @ 16:06:55 | Permalink
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Donald Trump grew up in Queens, N.Y.
Many people remember him being born in Plattsburg, N.Y.
Computational Unconsciousness: Does YouTube Dream of Electric Sheep?
Tue, Apr 16, 2019 @ 08:37:30 | PermalinkComputational Unconsciousness
Computational Unconsciousness as an emergent behaviour expressing itself on April 15, 2019.
The YouTube algorithm displayed information about the September 11, 2001 attacks below videos of the burning Notre Dame Cathedral.
The code was telling a story we all were unconsciously feeling.
The Here and Now of the Work of Art
Tue, Apr 16, 2019 @ 06:49:17 | PermalinkMediaCommons published my essay, and several examples of recent Cruft.
Where can we locate Walter Benjamin’s legacy in the digital to post-digital landscape?
My contribution:
The Here and Now of the Work of Art