Selected Tweets #5

Constructivist Study – Steve Mason

Microblogged: recent selected tweets from my Twitter stream. Note: Some tweets have additional descriptions, overriding their original 140 character limit.

Lightning Fields – The dendritic aesthetics of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates – Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Atlaseobscura reports on the Morning Glory Pool, a natural wonder at the point of environmental disaster. The bright concentric colour bands are generated by Thermophilic Bacteria.

Christian Bok’s ‘The Xenotext’ Experiment is a literary exercise that explores the aesthetic potential of genetics to create a poem, doing so in order to make literal the renowned aphorism of William S Burroughs, who declared “the word is now a virus.”

16-bit Intel 8088 chip, a poem by Charles Bukowski, laments the incompatibility between certain types of, now obsolete, data storage formats.

Sonumbra, by Loop, is a sonic parasol utilising electroluminescent fibres.

Julie Karabenick creates geometric pixillated abstractions, their pulsing circuits contain the ghost of Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie.

Mitchell Whitelaw creates transduced weather jewelry in the form of a 3D printed bracelet, the form is derived from 365 days of local weather data.

Lightning Fields – Hiroshi Sugimoto

Constructivist Study by Steve Mason. A generative set of cubes expand and sprawl into a randomised anti-gravitorial composition.

Digital Acoustic Cartography, by Daniel Rothaug, is an interactive experiment in mapping sonic events into a concrete visual language.

Andre Michelle has implemented an audio reactive version the Superformula in Actionscript 3.

Subblue creates a 4D Quaternion Julia Set Ray Tracer that generates extra dimensional curvaceous forms of self-similarity.

In conjunction with The Wire magazine, some music of constraint. 22 musical compositions by artists from around the world, where each piece was created with just 140 characters of code in SuperCollider.

Melvin Galapon’s prints explore computer monitor pixel geometry and strobing effect of TV static in a minimal graphic fashion.

Ant Scott’s Repetitive Beats series of prints are created using his flat panel luminograph technique. The results have the trademark broken glitch aesthetic. Listening closely we hear the scattered techno of neo-Op-Art .

Chris Scarborough’s drawing evokes a kind of deconstructed, Arcimboldo-esque transformer portrait.