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Monday, January 21, 2008

The Continuum

-Killing the president
-Peeing in public
-Public indecency
-Showing a picture of the word naked and hanging it in a window in Singapore

Music riots - Handel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_riot

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Making a website ---Research

look up content and layouts:
http://www.glish.com/css/home.asp#techniques


Career Center Website:
http://www.careercenter.ilstu.edu/students/marketing-yourself/Effective_Resume.shtml


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Portfolio websites
http://www.orangevector.com/
--good

http://www.ishankhosla.com/
--good

http://www.ibiblio.org/pbadani/
--good, a lot to take in

http://www.jkhudson.com/resume.html---bad

www.geckowebfolio.com

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CODE

Art, anthropology, agency, code.

"What counts as art changes in different contexts" -Alfred Gell

Giant Campbell's Soup Can ------is this art---yes or no?

"To decide something is art, then analyze it as an art object is to forget how it became an art object."


Think of an art object as a person..... and apply anthropological theory to it.

Agency: it makes a difference between something that just controls something else
--the capacity to act
ex: hooters girls


Code can have a lot of agency!
ex: cell phone, elevators, voting booths, computers

How does code distribute agency?
-a virus slows down a computer
-a browser pops up windows all over the screen

Code is free speech!


Miranda July
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Sound Mirror
http://www.soundmirrors.org/


Ray Kurzweil
(I attended this)
--
Sesquicentennial speaker at Illinois State's Braden Auditorium
http://www.ilstu.edu/home/anniversary/kurzweil.shtml

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

DeCSS

DeCSS is a computer program capable of decrypting content on a DVD-Video disc encrypted using the Content-Scrambling System (CSS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS