12/08/2004
Visual Mixing software:
19/07/2004
If patterns of ones and zeros were like patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
- Thomas Pynchon
08/07/2004
Mapping:
Martin Wattenberg maps data
Jim Campbell maps video as a single image
Mark Lombardi maps people on paper
Brad Paley maps books in Textarc
Brendan Dawes maps films
Lisa Jevbratt maps the web
Ben Fry maps the genome
Jason Salavon maps images over time
Josh On maps corporate secrets
22/06/2004
Street Memes, tracking the spread of street art.
“street meme”: a sticker, stencil, or poster that can spread a single image around the world. Unlike traditional graffiti art where each piece is unique, street memes can be copied repeatedly, taking on a life of their own, and spreading through the collective effort of people scattered around the world.
Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in his book The Selfish Gene, basically defining a meme as the viral spread of an idea among people. The Memespread Project attempted to track the forced spread of a meme online.