Category: Creative Coding

  • Methodology – Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense

    I will begin with some autobiographical remarks. I have a double educational background in the humanities and natural sciences. I studied the former at Cornell University and the latter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later in life, I worked for twenty years as a software developer. I had earlier studied literature and philosophy.

  • Jaron Lanier’s Phenotropic Programming

    In his autobiographical work Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality, VR pioneer and founder of the company Visual Programming Languages Jaron Lanier explains his view of software code which has a lot of overlap with the view laid out in the present study.

  • D. Fox Harrell’s Phantasmal Media

    In his book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (2013), D. Fox Harrell strives to establish a new relationship between the human or posthuman imagination and computing. Writing code, or working actively with computational media, are, for Harrell, activities of artistic, cultural, social, critical, and personally empowering expression.

  • Interview with Artist Network Theory

    AXELLE: We met in a media theory course you gave in Lucerne at the HSLU where I was a student in the masters design program. I was struggling to legitimate my position as an artist entering the field of design in a program which at the time had no face, no position, and no theory.

  • The Simulacra of Public Space: the work of Christos Voutichtis, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Der Wohnraum und das Handy selbst werden heute als Kommandozentralen begriffen, als Terminals, ausgestattet mit telematischer Macht, das heißt mit der Möglichkeit, alles über Entfernungen hinweg zu erledigen. Der ordinäre Mensch hat jetzt die Macht, die militärische Generäle früher hatten. Gleiches gilt für den öffentlichen Raum.