Content tagged "computers"
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Podcast: Jaroslav Švelch, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
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The Truelist
The Truelist is a book-length poem generated by a one-page, stand-alone computer program.
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Operational Images and the Interpretive Turn
Through the history of cartography, surveillance, and reconnaissance runs a long tale of instrumentalization, a history of calculable images primed for machine-readability.
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The Age of Female Computers
Francesca Schembri on the all-female team that programmed the first electronic computer. It received the Obermayer Prize For Writing on the History of Innovation.
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Exploratory Programming Workshop
Nick Montfort will lead participants in exploring computer programs through modification and as they start learning the fundamentals of programming
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How Did the Computer Learn to See?
Did computers learn to see by modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
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To Create Live Treatments of Actuality: An Investigation of the Emerging Field of Live Documentary Practice
There is less attention to new opportunities and new theoretical challenges for live practices within the documentary sphere. This thesis argues for a fuller conceptualization of Live Documentary practice.
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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Podcast: From Purple Blurb, “Computers and Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Technology”
The computer’s creative involvement in the visual and literary arts is the topic of this discussion, held on the occasion of the Drawing with Code exhibit.
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Mind Over Machine: What Deep Blue Taught Us about Chess, Artificial Intelligence, and the Human Spirit
We can see how Deep Blue impacted the chess community and influenced the fields of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science in the long run.
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Artificial Intelligence and Musical Creativity: Computing Beethoven’s Tenth
Exploring creativity and ask whether computers are capable now, or in the future, of producing creative works, specifically in musical composition.
