Themes

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery

As artists, the one true inquiry of art as a pure subject is an inquiry of our potential to know the world around us and our actively being in it, with a particular emphasis on the aesthetic. This world is not just somehow given to us whole. We perceive, we shape the world, and as artists we discover and give value to our human potential to "see" the infinite richness (beauty?) in everything, creating an extended aesthetic reality.
Robert Irwin

The entire secret of designing is the conscious insertion of a building into the community of what exists.
Heinz Wetzel

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Tip of the day

You can link each others blogs to the google reader page, which then will give you an overview of the activities on one page. This will make it a lot easier for you to comment on each other's progress when you'll start uploading your work.

Unfortunately, this will register only posts and not comments.

Check this video on the Seadragon software: this would vastly improve how we share and look visual data on a screen.

5 comments:

smunger said...

I think, as it applies to our studio, this technology poses more than a great way to share information. What the Seadragon software really does is to alter the notion of place.

By creating a three dimensional composite of a specific place, (or all places), the technology begins to erode away at the conventional notion of location.

As we look to explore the notion of the Phenomenal & Virtual we should keep these issues in mind.

enno said...

Sounds like an excellent starting point for investigation and design to me. Go for it!

Scott Pfeifer said...

This technology represents an incredible synergy of visual data that goes so far beyond what I have seen to date. The part that fascinates me most, is how other peoples work (i.e. indentifying pieces of the data) gets translated back to your photos. Everyone's content gets smarter as the data grows. Taking advantage of everyone's efforts.

Stacey Stevens said...

Can someone tell me where the google reader page is? I have been looking for it and can't seem to find it. Can anyone help me? I hope I am not the only person not able to locate it.

enno said...

Stacey,
It's at http://www.google.com/reader