ristoid @ristoid@qoto.org
Composer, musicologist, writer and artist.
https://ristoid.net/
gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/
I have previously mentioned my encounter with the joys and frustrations of JavaScript. There is scant documentation of how to load a plain text document in an html object and specify the character encoding. Worse yet, it seems not guaranteed to work correctly, at least not in Firefox. Here is the page in question:
Art as we know it began in 1790 or thereabouts. Anything earlier that we might think of as art has to be declared to be art by a gesture similar to how a readymade is appointed. That's not my theory, and I don't think it needs to be taken too seriously, but I just posted a brief history of art and a reminder of my call for mail art exchange at the Needle's Haystack:
https://ristoid.substack.com/p/short-lesson-art-history
To all artists interested in mail art exchange. Please circulate among artists who might be interested.
As a part of this mail art project I will experiment with asemic writing and something very reminiscent of a conlang, except that the words are not intended to have any meaning. Video animations of a kind of audiovisual poetry are also planned. If you want to participate in the exchange, send me your post address by email. You may also send me your own mail art by regular post. The email contact will be useful to check if delivery is successful.
More information can be found on the official project page: https://ristoid.net/art/mailart.html
The project will run through the year, or perhaps longer. I intend to document sent letters or postcards, and will also scan and display incomming mail art on the project page. (Let me know if you prefer to remain anonymous).
In order not to make this an annual a habit, I make this announcement on a leap day.
Are there any artists here with a masters degree in arts or similar, who would like to share their experiences of their education?
How is theory balanced against practice, what's on the curriculum these days? What is expected of a student to be admitted on a program?
Until recently I have found no need to dabble with dynamic web pages. Javascript as a language turns out to be fun and easy. The intricate part is how to connect it to the html or css part. On the smolweb it is customary to point out the mess we're seing on the big web, all the distracting elements, all the fluff around very little actual content. Apart from the bloat as such, scripts are often pointed to as the culprit. Is this bloat and scripting proliferation partly a result of how fun it is to build such sites, or the amount of work a web programmer can charge for?
Dynamic web pages showing each visitor something unique and taylored to their profile is a recipe for removing a sense of common (online) reality. As an internet art project dynamic and unique web pages might be interesting to experiment with, leaving aside the way the internet almost always reduces art to "art", the medium erects quotation marks around the work, as it were.
This is another idea:
A single web page that presents documents once, and only once, from a large pool. When a document has been displayed it is disappeared and never shewn again. Withering away instead of accumulation; when resources are emptied they project ends.
René Girard seems to have had a profound understanding about scapegoating.
There is a short introduction in a series of brilliant animations that outlines his theories. In the second of five episodes, the animator rends homage to Norman McLaren by reconstructing one of his famous animations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhazRKyNL4
Automated translation services have improved quite a bit the last ten years or so. Before, you could use them creatively as in a whispering game, translating back and forth between different languages, and gradually the share of nonsense would increase because of unfortunate choices along the way. Now, it seems, while this process still introduces some slippages of meaning, the translations remain quite close to the original for several stages. Translations across languages of the indo-european and east asian groups, or other unrelated language groups, is probably the best way to introduce creative errors.
Also, starting from a nonsensical text, the translation process gradually stabilises on something that makes more and more sense, perhaps because more conventional phrases are selected at each turn.
Exhibit A
The purpose of making them work-shy is not to actually keep them idle. Instead, the goal is to create highly realistic models, where the focus is not on making them avoid work, but rather on achieving a high level of authenticity in their representation. This means that the intention is not to promote laziness, but rather to ensure that the models are as convincing and true to life as possible.
Exhibit B
Le but de les rendre timides au travail n’est pas de les garder inactifs. Au lieu de cela, l’objectif est de créer des modèles très réalistes, où l’accent n’est pas mis sur leur éviter le travail, mais plutôt sur la réalisation d’un haut niveau d’authenticité dans leur représentation. Cela signifie que l’intention n’est pas de promouvoir la paresse, mais plutôt de s’assurer que les modèles sont aussi convaincants et fidèles à la vie que possible.
The original of this quote was created by using the search-and-replace function and replacing words and expressions with something completely unrelated. This causes the text to retain a certain coherence through all its whimsical nonsense.
The Needle's Haystack is where I discuss art, mostly contemporary art and its theories. In the latest post I delve into uses of perspective, including in sculpture, photography, and anamorphic art. The convenience of bringing a camera with you everywhere seems to have had a deep influence on art, and perhaps on painting in particular. We don't have to try to remember scenes and reconstruct them from our far from perfect memories.
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https://oberdada.pollux.casa/peptalk.gmi
The source code is available if you want to compile the oracle for your own use. It's not supposed to act like a content producer for online posting, aka bot, so I'll probably stop quoting it from now on.
For those of poor sight, yes. For the rest of us, I'm afraid there are some who agree with this, but personally I don't like my interfaces to make sounds as communicative signals, partly because I work with sound a good deal of the time, and partly because it is disturbing. Nor am I willing to raise my voice to communicate with a machine. With animals, yes, because the interchange with a conscious being may always be worthwhile.
Things already make sounds when there's a reason for it, indexical sounds such as the speeding fan of the laptop indicating some process making heavy use of the processor, or the noise of a boiling kettle of water which indicates when the temperature is about right, if you pay attention to it. Those naturally occuring "interfaces" are quite enough for me.
QT: https://qoto.org/@levisan/111824038949317099
Peptalk says:
"Today's message: Use internationalisation and pretend
it wasn't you."
Five years have past since last time I was here and I suspect there has been an influx of users. Meanwhile I've settled more on the smolweb and gemini. Anyone here using it?
You find me at:
gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/
also mirrored on the web.
Two new tracks from an upcoming album.
As for academic publishing, I hope you support this initiative for open access:
https://www.coalition-s.org/
Being an ex-academic myself I have not failed to notice how locked-in much research is. Post your pre-print to an archive and make your results useful to the larger society!
Min roman Skrapan kommer ut nu i dagarna!
https://ristoid.net/skrapan.html
Hello World!
I'm not a programmer, nor do I come from twitter, so forgive me if I find no use for the hashtag here (I only use it when talking to the preprocessor). However, this is an
introduction.
I'm a composer, but I also do animations, relief prints and some writing. Curiosity brought me here, and possibly also the promise of being able to post equations should I ever need to.
Composer, musicologist, writer and artist.
https://ristoid.net/
gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/
