Week 1 Tuesday

Code as poetry

The poetic effects of computation

Proposals and questions?

Teaching to Transgress

Do you have a proposal you would like to share? Go ahead!

Learning by questioning

Occupying spaces we were told not to occupy!

Some shared resources/links

The Internet Yami-Ichi

https://web.saechsisches-industriemuseum.com/en/chemnitz.htmlhttps://web.saechsisches-industriemuseum.com/en/chemnitz.html

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. -

By Donald Knuth

Class chat

Mitogramas

https://lamarcaeditora.com/admin/files/libros/1025/MitogramasMuestradigital.pdf

El Anatsui

https://elanatsui.art/

Omar Rayo

https://www.google.com/search?q=omar+rayo&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3yuufg9z9AhXIgv0HHWBGB2AQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1920&bih=942&dpr=1

Kollam Patterns

https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=kollam patterns

Klöppeln

https://www.google.com/search?q=klöppeln&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&vet=1&fir=I-Fen9rQcf_XUM%252ClQfgCcQReqHKvM%252C_%253BUeuvpAvWKILcGM%252CzAqN6BQRu47vfM%252C_%253Bd_jLe4tOKEAejM%252C9PMJ3iidCq7eHM%252C_%253B9NS9Vpz0_PkojM%252CNFwOEmVjoqj8hM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTaKYwpk1knpWETt3_tk_Ir6sEZcw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEkpef_9v9AhXOwQIHHRidAhoQ_h16BAhlEAE#imgrc=UeuvpAvWKILcGM

Modular robots and games

Not exactly automata, but the spirit is similar. The idea is to decentralise computing, where blocks with some inbuilt capacities join with others to perform a variety of tasks.

Self-transforming robot blocks jump, spin, flip, and identify each other | MIT News

A better example is a game designed by the Media Lab which was called Sifteo. (Now defunct)

Gee’s Bend Quilting

At the National Gallery of Art I happened upon an exhibit with quilts made by residents of Gee’s Bend, Alabama.

One of the things that makes them so interesting (and potentially makes Elementary Automata “dull”) is their syncopation—patterns that you think are emerging only to be tweaked and flipped right when you start to expect them to repeat. Something that Rule 30 (and others) try to get to, but humans can achieve so easily.