"Artifice & Intelligence"
guest edited by Andrew Klobucar

with a panel discussion on Technology and Aesthetics featuring

Jim Andrews, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave Johnston,
Laura Marks, Sandra Seekins, and Darren Wershler-Henry

Behold the Lexicographer: "slave of science, the pioneer of literature" | Jargon of Eden

The emergence of lexicography as a formal practice and discipline in the mid-18th century helps us interpret two interrelated issues in modern epistemology: 1. the evolution of applied analysis and aesthetic modelling as modes of knowledge, and 2. the growing dependence of knowledge upon media and communication technologies.

Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

 The "pages" of this blog aim to explore contemporary developments in knowledge technologies, specifically the various tools and methods emerging within the Digital Humanities to help quantify, assess and analyze information. There's currently an impressive amount research and experimentation within this field, much of it covering a wide variety of professional disciplines and areas of cultural production. The questions linking such work, however, are quite fundamental:

 

According to Skeat’s Etymology , the word freeze can be traced back to:

GTR is happy to announce that Jena Osman's hypertext poem "The Periodic Table As Assembled by Dr.Zhivago, Oculist" created in 2002/2003 is back online and hosted at gtrlabs.org. The poem is a "language laboratory... organized according to the periodc table of elements".

The perl code for the poem was originally developed by Sean O'Donnell and fetched images from a variety of image sources on the internet corresponding to key words within the hypertext poem. Little work was required to revive the poem as Sean did a very good job first time around. I modified the server side code to revive some of the image sources which had dried up over the years + a little client side JavaScript TLC was required. All in all, it's running splendiferously !  Visit it here .

Wow. Bill O'Reilly appreciates poet/professor Bruce Andrews being a "stand-up" guy.... Bill takes "missing the point" to a whole new level.

Just when you thought it was safe to use that chip implanted in your hands to automatically log into your computer, a new documentary is released illustrating in grim detail the dangers of medical implants (Faster YouTube version available here .)

Wow ! The inaugural Dorkbot Vancouver meeting was fantastic, a great turnout with a highly eclectic group of individuals. Thanks to Alex Beim and Clive Goodinson for starting the Vancouver chapter of Dorkbot and to Jeremy for putting the word out.

There were sculptors, painters, writers, educators, graphic designers, bio-information visualizers, Flash gurus, Processing pros, RFID hand implant briefcase opening people, crazy concert glow ball creators, WI-FI phone network hackers, interactive narrative theorists, tactile computing conceptualists, RFID based spritzing dolphin creators, audio quilt fabricators, corporate branding wizards and me (heavy backpack computational linguistics guy). Quite a few connections to Emily Carr and to the SIAT program at SFU.