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  1. John Maede's installation at the IT-University by madsh · · Score: 1 · on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office?
    Hi, Here in Copenhagen, Denmark we got a new university a few years ago focusing in information technologies hence the IT-University Copenhagen.
    The atrium is decorated by two installations by John Maeda. He writes

    the user inputs a number having several digits, such as a telephone number (6133788991) or a special date (06211992). The computer processes the number uses a generic art synthesis program, and the resulting dynamic graphical content appears on the display. and

    The user is presented with a series of dialog boxes for two or three voices. Either alone or with friends, the user inputs text to simulate a verbal exchange. The resulting conversation appears on the display. These two styles of content reflect both an abstract art concept as well as a concrete communication Depending on the ambitions of your CS Dept Office I think you should aim as high as possible. Pick a well-know hero from with in your field and let them spend the time and money on making something exceptional. Remember that good ideas are born inside a single brain...
  2. John Maeda by v(*_*)vvvv · · Score: 1 · on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office?

    To not include him in any discussion of CS art is a travesty!

  3. all... by same_old_story · · Score: 1 · on Is Computer-Created Art, Art?

    of John Maedas work (hes been doing this for over 20 years now):

    http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/
    http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php
    and this book is great:
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0847822958/ 104-9636841-3703163

  4. Generated Art by mr+i+want+to+go+home · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty
    The idea of 'generated art' is pretty cool I think. It's certainly a big step back to the roots of Modernist art - which was about explorations of tone/colour/form/balance and not necessarily subject. Unfortunately lots of art at the moment is really quite selfish - Tracy Emin's unmade bed for example...it seems to be a symptom of the voyeristic phase our culture is going through (Big Brother, Blogging, etc)

    This k++ (or whatever) is an ok example, but there are some truly fantastic sites around..Try Pray Station or (one of my hero's) John Maeda. John's work is incredibly beautiful, and he's a half decent coder to boot.

  5. Re:Java Applets vs Flash - Web Start vs. future Fl by mvw · · Score: 2 · on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web
    Everyone created Java IDEs for propellorheads instead of tools to let art school dropouts create shiny, brightly colored objects. There were a few people who drank the koolaid and created horrifying animated buttons using Java, but there were very few beautiful little Java widgets.

    How many people master both crafts - programming and good graphical design arts?

    Not so many. One of the few I got aware of is John Maeda who first studied computer science, then did arts school, today an influential MIT professor. Cool artist that uses the cheap repetetive features of a computer to create beautiful art.

    He did some cool Java applets as well, I particulary like the MIT navigation prototype.

    If no one manages to educate and interest more propelerheads in arts, we will stay with the flash people for the mainstream presentations.

    Did I mention that scientific apps are among the worst GUIs I ever saw? :-)

  6. Re:Java Applets vs Flash - Web Start vs. future Fl by mvw · · Score: 2 · on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web
    Everyone created Java IDEs for propellorheads instead of tools to let art school dropouts create shiny, brightly colored objects. There were a few people who drank the koolaid and created horrifying animated buttons using Java, but there were very few beautiful little Java widgets.

    How many people master both crafts - programming and good graphical design arts?

    Not so many. One of the few I got aware of is John Maeda who first studied computer science, then did arts school, today an influential MIT professor. Cool artist that uses the cheap repetetive features of a computer to create beautiful art.

    He did some cool Java applets as well, I particulary like the MIT navigation prototype.

    If no one manages to educate and interest more propelerheads in arts, we will stay with the flash people for the mainstream presentations.

    Did I mention that scientific apps are among the worst GUIs I ever saw? :-)

  7. Maeda is way ahead of this. by vitaflo · · Score: 2 · on Web-based Collaborative Artwork

    John Maeda, one of the few true digital artists out there, started something similar to this in 1997, called the "One Line Project". Basically, people would draw lines into a Java applet online, and then the lines from each one would be connected to make one long line. I remember seeing pictures of it on exhibit at some gallery, all printed out. It spanned the entire gallery. Very very impressive. To see more:

    http://www.maedastudio.com/olp98/index.html

  8. Re:Java, anyone? by mvw · · Score: 2 · on Curl Instead of Java or JavaScript?
    curl is competing with several entrenched technologies, and both Flash and Java Applets have progressed a great deal over the last couple of years

    Flash looks nice and has been embraced by the web design community due to it allowing better graphics/layout than all those cranky HTML/Java solutions and good tools for non programmers beeing available.

    But its download time is a bad joke. It has spawned a sub genre of "loading"-flics, not unsimiliar to the pre-film fill material of older cinema days.

    Its seems to run reasonably well on its few supported plattforms. (Except for the Netscape 6 desaster)

    Java could have been very promising on the graphical side (look for example over there at John Maeda's applets ) but it is also a PITA regarding download times (SWING, Baby!).

    Plus Java's mutation rate has degraded the easiness of embodying an applet with a simple APPLET tag into a nightmare of version mismatchs between applets and browsers/VMs and forces users into using a Sun tool to construct a proper sh*tload of JavaScript that figures on what browser it sits and pulls in a proper Java VM in case the browser is too old.

    On the other hand who would not forgive Netscape to give up the internal VM and stick that cr*p into an external plugin, if the internal VM was guilty of a big lot of bugs. (Run once, debug anywhere)

    And of course has anyone written a Java tool suited for those non programmers that web designers are yet?

    Thus Flash is partly useful to the artists and Java partly useful to the hackers.

    If curl is useful to both it will have a chance on the web. It seems to address graphical expressiveness (and more than managing a fixed rectangle in the browser), intelligent downloading strategies, obligations as programming language, obligations for non programmers (providing authoring tools).

    Its lack of cross plattfrom right now however is very bad.

    I also have no clue, if any open implementation will be possible.