La Perruque is a 1 × 90 cm-long magazine publishing nonstandard type specimens printed in the unused margins of offset printing paper sheets.

http://la-perruque.org

“A ‘homer’ [«perruque» in french] is an artifact that a worker produces using company tools and materials outside normal production plans but at the workplace and during workhours. Despite legal, artistic and ethnographic evidence of their existence, silence surrounds [perruques]. […] this silence is not linked just to the marginal and illegal quality of these artifacts. [Perruques] shed light on a high degree of ‘complicity’ between employees regardless of their position in the hierarchy.”
(Michel Anteby, “Factory ‘homers’: Understanding a highly elusive, marginal, and illegal practice“)
http://la-perruque.org/about.html

“Safebook is Facebook without the content, a browser extension that hides all images, text, video, and audio on the site. Left behind are the empty containers that frame our everyday experience of social media…”

https://bengrosser.com/projects/safebook/

“Using fragments of building rubble from a recycling yard, Matthias Maurer explored how he can capture their surfaces three-dimensionally using photogrammetric techniques. With the help of 3D-printed and milled connecting pieces, which can only be produced with the help of these 3D scans, he tries to integrate the fragments into new functional structures.”

https://masterthesis23.ch/Behind-the-surfaces

Subscribe to web content like newsletters, social media profiles, single websites and set individual intervals in which you want to be reminded of them.

https://www.kawara.app
https://www.cyclemarks.com

Several projects:
https://mschf.xyz

The Office (Slack)
“Every episode of The Office recreated in Slack”
https://theofficeslack.com

Times Newer Roman
“…a font that looks just like Times New Roman, except each character is 5-10% wider.” (to trick standardised document lengths).
https://timesnewerroman.com

masterWiki
“We stole MasterClass’ content and turned it into wikiHow articles”
https://masterwiki.how

“When we gradate the boundaries between two polarized things, the two become smoothly connected. By blurring the various boundaries, we can find complexity, diversity, and richness of information.”

https://vimeo.com/497879805

“A collection of twentyfour variations on the theme ‘clock’. […] Each of these twentyfour clocks shows time in a different form. The result is a sequence of numbers, letters or punctuation marks animated in different ways.”

https://24times.gysin-vanetti.com/

“An educational measuring kit that introduces an elastic frame of understanding accuracy and subjectivity.”

https://boeyw.com/project/immeasurable-range

www.adultswim.com/videos/smalls/what-codec-should-i-use

“This web application accesses the source code of the website and interferes with its logic. Each time it is implemented by a unique combination of methods. The algorithm performs about 1000 interventions per second, using 369 151 937 methods.”

https://deformation.stranno.su

https://vimeo.com/381661479

And other website and interface projects:
http://yhsong.com

“It is an operation on the screen, a play on the surface where materiality is not brought as a question of materials, but in terms instead of material relations.”

http://abelardogfournier.org/works/marching-ants.html

Broselow pediatric emergency tape is a standardized color-coded tape measure to quickly relate a child’s height to its weight in emergency situations for estimating medication dosages and other medical instructions.

Some links to notes and approaches on end-user programming, or the idea of software as programming environments fundamentally composable by users.

www.inkandswitch.com/

Paul Chiusano: The future of software

Rosa Menkman’s disorienting and overwhelming study of “resolution”.

“…resolution studies does not only involve the study of the effects of technological progress or the aesthetization of the scales of resolution. Resolution studies also involves a research on alternative settings that could have been in place, but are not – and the technologies which are, as a result, rendered outside of the discourse of computation.”

https://beyondresolution.info

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (Scholtz, Unwin)

“Compliant Architecture is a project that combines three strands: historical research into the emergence of building regulations; design research illustrating the limits they pose for practitioners; and teaching-led research exploring the architectural potential of these limits. … Ross inverts the ubiquitous critique of regulation among architects, suggesting that the disciplinary challenge posed by regulation is not the limits it sets, but the freedoms it offers. Ross advocates an architectural practice that works with and through regulatory limits to dramatize, rather than negate, the inherent risk of building”

http://www.candidejournal.net/

Create public websites to share simple posts by claiming a URL, no password, no login. Pages are deleted after 30 days of inactivity. Super simple and ingenius.

https://sdnotes.com/faq

“Taking a closer look at the common practice of computer organization using folders and files and taking a page out of Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities, we will explore folder structures as a new kind of poetic form and DAT as a way to build digital spaces with and for our networks.”

Also:
“Everyone who interacts with computers has, in very real ways already been programming. The distinction between programmer and user is maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. Together we can build up and cultivate one another’s agency to shape technology and online spaces that support and care for each other and our communities.”

https://github.com/

“18 symmetrical formations composed from the archetypal postcard back delineation rules and stamp box.”

https://eatock.com/
(His projects in general)

Collection of various sophisticated generative graphics and systems. All code on Github.

https://generated.space
Ballots (generative form layouts)
Byrne Proofs (proofs of nothing)

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Video of lecture

“Shipping/returns as a cultural and physical contemporary phenomena. referencing richard artschwager’s ‘crates’, these careful crates serve as material resistance to a standardized bounding box economy that organizes, binds, shelters and delimits contents in anticipation of global circulation.”

https://stockastudio.com/

Boxed In: The Aesthetics of Material Circulation
www.e-flux.com/

http://matthewrayfield.com/goodies/popup-trombone/

Exhibition and research on joints in design and art.

www.plusdesigngallery.it/
www.andreacaputo.com/

“Russian artist Alexei Shulgin’s Form Art (1997), which used HTML buttons and boxes as the raw material for monochromatic compositions, is at first glance a purely formal study of certain aspects of HTML. But it was also absurd: Form Art transformed the most bureaucratic, functional, and unloved aspects of the web into aesthetic, ludic elements.”

“By rendering these standard forms useless, Shulgin draws attention to the materiality and function of the web. “Bringing them in focus was a declaration of the fact that a computer interface is not a ‘transparent’ invisible layer to be taken for granted,” Shulgin notes, “but something that defines the way we are forced to work and even think.””

Rhizome Net Art Anthology
Link to work

Argeïphontes Lyre
A sound editing software with ideosyncratic interface principles that breaks with paradigms of remediation, real-life metaphors and ease-of-use.
Mac App Store
Article about the interface by Lasse Prang (in German)

Argeïphontes Recalcitrance
“… the art of file names. A rather fine collection of file names and file name filters implemented most tastefully.”
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/

http://www.akirarabelais.com/

“… screws, hinges, nuts, nails, brackets and other hardware extending their original function and character. Like nails that reduce the risk of hitting your finger, two way tie wraps, fancy hinges and screws that smile at you. They give flavour to simple DIY work, review existing furniture and may inspire the carpenter.”

www.linamariekoeppen.de/
www.droog.com/project/

“A performative design research that explores how the handshake – a simple social gesture – has become coded with immense nationalistic meaning and examines how our definition of normal influences our suspicions of others.”

http://www.markhenning.nl

“The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of the physical body within a digital working environment by examining how certain physical motions take on gestural meaning and how these motions translate into the digital gestures that they subsequently create.”

https://onetwotiemyshoe.info

Palm Dial

“Inspired by different technics (dating back from XVIth century until our contemporary “survivalists”) the three gloves of Palm Dial transform the hand of the user in tools to measure the passing of time, creating a direct link between the position of the body and the course of the sun.”

O&I

“0&I is a computer software, freely downloadable and installable by the user-viewer on his computer.

This software creates a discreet but permanent modification on the way the computer works. The software changes the blinkrate of the cursor in any program in which the user can type data (Micro- soft Word, for exemple). The rate is slowed down to the same number an adult body breathes per minute.

The cursor is considered as one of the precise entry point between sensible and virtual, between reality and data. By slowing down a digital rhythm and adapting it to a natural rhythm the artist questions the closest and closest relation between « natural » and « digital » occuring nowadays.”

“Printed, laser die-cut orange acrylic stencil containing annotations made by the artist, to page 11 of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. The annotations select, highlight, as well as censor the still in-print publication. Mirroring the mass production of the available book, the work considers the possible multiplication of a personal perspective through the function of the stencil.”

“But what would it mean if we took a different view of what visualization could do? What would it mean if a visualization was designed to be difficult and abstract? If it was intended to send us back to the original source of the data in order to make sense of the image we encountered? What if the goal of visualization was to allow each person, individually, to interpret the image for herself?

This was the aim of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the nineteenth-century writer, editor, and educator. Inspired by a system developed in Poland earlier in the century, she devised a method of translating historical events into shape and color. In her textbook, she explained her desire to appeal to the “mind’s eye” so that each student could create a personal account of the past.”

http://www.shapeofhistory.net

“Anthropological Taxonomy in first photographs taken with a new digital camera.”

https://vimeo.com/122396072

Keyboard with e-ink keys for customizable contextual key layouts.

https://sonderdesign.com

Global addressing system based on a 3×3 m grid of the world, where each cell is identified by a unique three word combination. Thought to replace numeric geo locations that are hard to remember and prone to errors in transmission. Covering the globe in a multi-lingual layer of random functional poetry.

https://what3words.com/
https://map.what3words.com/

“The project False Positives is about intelligent surveillance systems. These are camera’s that are said to be able to detect deviant behaviour within public space. False Positives is set around the question of normative behaviour. It aims to raise this question by basing the project on eight different ‘anomalies’. These so called anomalies are sign in body-language and movement that could indicate criminal intent. It is through these anomalies the algorithms are built and cameras are able to detect deviant behaviour.”

https://estherhovers.com/

Twelve Tales Told
“A dozen logos for Hollywood production companies play before you as they would precede a normal Hollywood production; appropriately in 3D if watching digitally, in 2D on 35mm—and self-aggrandizing in any format. Only, each logo sequence, some animated with glossy grandeur (Disney, Paramount), some more restrained (Regency, Warner Bros.), is stutteringly interwoven image by image into the others, beginning with the longest and ending with the shortest. The resulting visual effect is of a sustained anti-climax of bombast: the fanfare for the main attraction is drawn out and aggravated to become the main attraction. Since new production logos are progressively feathered into the mix, the manufactured desired climax of full logo revelation—say, of Disney’s beloved castle and fireworks—is continually delayed by other interfering companies”

Vertigo Rush
“VERTIGO RUSH is a technically extravagant experiment consisting of a series of dolly zooms: a succession of camera movements captured in individual images of forward and backward motion, while simultaneously zooming in the opposite direction. Accelerating this pendulum movement, at first gently and later drastically, intensifies the optical illusion of the space shifting together—and smoothly hands it over to the abstract, transferred to a “dissolving” image.”

And other of his films:
http://johannlurf.net/en/

Pure CSS illustrations and discussions of their rendering differences in various browser versions.

http://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-francine/
https://twitter.com/

“The installation self-generates images using two flatbed scanners laying on their side, with scanning surfaces pointing at one another. A computer script creates automatic mouse movements, randomizing the settings of the proprietary scanning software interface, and beginning a scanning process.

Each newly created image is then analyzed by a series of deep-learning algorithms trained on a database of contemporary artworks in economic and institutional circulation. When an image matches an existing artwork beyond an 83% match, it uploads it to this website and a twitter account.”

http://allwedeverneed.com

“Single pages from IKEA furniture-assembly instructions were mixed together and renumbered. The result is an instructions manual of about 700 pages.”

https://ggor.de/en/project/baebel/

And other of his projects:
https://ggor.de/en/project/

An “automated lexicon”.

http://autolex.idealpress.org

Two striking examples of (kind of) comedy playing with media reflexivity, especially the subversion of media formats (in the sense of TV programming formats) to comedic effect.

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (series):
https://www.youtube.com/user/thisisitcollective

Too Many Cooks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8

Windows Rainbows and Dinos
http://jonsatrom.com/—/windows-rainbows-dinos/

QTZRK
http://jonsatrom.com/—/qtzrk/

And other projects.

Die With Me
“The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery.”
http://diewithme.online

non views
“non views is a Chrome extension that replaces the amount of views on a YouTube into the amount of people that didn’t watch the video in the world.”
https://driesdepoorter.be/nonviews/

Gradient
Realtime gradient of two pixel colors from the sky of two webcams on the opposite side of the earth.
http://driesdepoorter.be/gradient/

“With 657 billion digital images per year being captured and pushed to the web, it is likely that at some point in your life you’ve taken a photo that already exists. And you will continue to do so with the help of this app.

CCamera is the first camera app that takes images that have already been uploaded to the internet. It brings your photos to the next level — because they’re not yours.”

http://ccamera.org

http://www.ougrapo.de

https://youtu.be/9iDiMXTx5wU?t=21s

“Inspired by Andrew Huang and his MIDI unicorn, I make midi compositions that forms a picture. It’s called a MIDI drawing, and it’s entirely stupid, but incredibly fun to make.”

https://www.youtube.com/user/maisplante

4K HDR codec test film by Netflix.

https://www.netflix.com/ch/title/80141336
Variety article

A talk about giving talks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o

Photoshop filters applied to the „first“ photoshopped image („Jennifer in Paradise“).

http://jennifer.ps

“In computation, a ’pipe’ is a method to enable various software modules to connect to each other, where the output of one program is treated as the input for the next program. ’Pipes’ form the basis of The Unix philosophy, a perspective on software production where multiple task-oriented tools can be chained together to make seemingly endless software combinations possible. While interchangeable and flexible, the assumption that each element should be optimised to ’Do One Thing and Do It Well’ leads to a rather predictable and ultimately normative set. If each tool is designed to be used in any context by anyone at any time, what about situated knowledge? How can we imagine modularity, knowing that software processes are inherently leaky and contextual?”

http://www.constantvzw.org/

“The Silhouette series utilizes the 18th century technique of the same name by representing a subject as an outline cut into a single piece of solid black paper. … Although the technique most commonly depicts a person in profile, it is applied here towards the proportions and shape of the modern day Internet. The individual compositions are composed from pieces of the artist’s own Internet browsing data and based on standardized internet advertising proportions, drawing into question whether these proportions are in reaction to or are a driving force behind the general shape of the web.”

http://www.evan-roth.com/

“The Crossing Machine is a mind tool conceived to stimulate the creation of new publishing artifacts. The main purpose of the project is to investigate technologies and publishing from a post-digital perspective and to propose new methodologies for producing self-reflective works.”

http://www.thecrossingmachine.tk

“Unfold is an online publishing and archiving platform based upon the structure of the digital folder.”

http://unfold.thevolumeproject.com

http://www.guykoenigstein.com/inaccurate_rulers.html

http://www.guykoenigstein.com/excavations.html

http://calc.dcfvg.com
More projects http://dcfvg.com

“Queer Programming Anti-Language”

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~zblas/

“Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.”

http://schema.org

http://www.wired.com/2010/06/smoothing-square-pixels/
Russell Kirsch talks about the variable shaped pixel

“It utilizes the ability of computers to comprehend semantic meaning via “common-sense networks” to poetically represent the socio-cultural effects of natural language processing.”

http://mfadt.parsons.edu/2015/projects/definitions/
https://bryan.ma

Wiki on digital forensics (also known as computer forensics).

http://forensicswiki.org

http://www.earlyofficemuseum.com

Stock images by artists.

http://disimages.com

“Entropy is a programming language about giving up control. All data decays as the program runs: each value alters slightly every time it’s used, becoming less precise.”

http://danieltemkin.com/Entropy

Also “New Languages”
http://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/

Bot composes collages from virtual 3D objects.

https://www.thingiverse.com/shivinteger/designs/

http://sebastianlyserena.dk

https://www.jetset.nl/archive/lostformats

“Rulers of altered length were distributed to professionals.”

http://www.vvork.com/

“The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every RGB color (16777216); not one color missing, and not one color twice.”

http://allrgb.com

“This project investigates the idea of using computation to “use up” a piece of technology, in this case a digital camera. Using custom-written software (and a very long period of time), every possible photograph is generated, one at a time and in numerical order.”

See also his other projects exploring ideas of technical images, algorithms, abstraction, and computational vision.

http://www.jeffreythompson.org/

Uses materials and visual language out of the context of the office (printer, paper, pens, excel) for reduced works, playing with order, repetition, patience.

http://www.ignaciouriarte.com

“We believe in the joy of metering. It is enlightening and highly reassuring, also fun.”

http://senorpako.de/meters/

“New image file formats for artistic purpose.”

http://extrafile.org

Deals with temporal orders, calendars and subjective counting systems in her graphical works.

https://www.diaart.org/

“…explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid.”

The need of a rigidly defined, universal, modular order for enabling collaborative and open source development.

http://www.openstructures.net/

It is “a joke about the meter,” Duchamp glibly noted about this piece, but his premise for it reads like a theorem: “If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter onto a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases[it] creates a new image of the unit of length.” Duchamp dropped three threads one meter long from the height of one meter onto three stretched canvases. The threads were then adhered to the canvases to preserve the random curves they assumed upon landing. The canvases were cut along the threads’ profiles, creating a template of their curves creating new units of measure that retain the length of the meter but undermine its rational basis.

http://www.moma.org/

“This book contains the first Google image result for every word in the dictionary.”

http://www.creativeapplications.net/
http://felixheyes.com/

MIT project to develop a collection (a “hypergraph”) of “Common Sense Knowledge”.

“To improve computers’ understanding of the world that people live in and talk about, we need to provide them with usable knowledge about the basic relationships between things that nearly every person knows.”

The data set is free to download and explorable online.
https://conceptnet.io

Lang explores in historical reference to Goethe and Constable cloud phenomena as artistic commentary and the question of presentability. For example his “idealized” phantom images of clouds he did with help of the “identikit machine” of the BKA or his “Cloud Walks”.

http://www.gerhardlang.com

Translates barcodes in output signals on an array of power sockets, where you can connect all kinds of electronical devices.

http://www.v2.nl/

Labov investigated the borders of words and concepts and the working of categorization in everyday communication. In a study drawings of “containers” with different formal characteristics where shown to participants. They had to assign them with either “cup”, “bowl” or “vase”. The decision gradually changed when they where asked to imagine the object filled with flowers or mashed potatoes for example. The categorization seems to be context dependent and fuzzy. Prototype theory in general states that we imagine categories of things around a strong member or representative of the category. It often refers to Wittgenstein’s concept of “Familienähnlichkeit” (family likeness).

http://fak1-alt.kgw.tu-berlin.de/
http://pyersqr.org/

Collection of products exhibiting errors in the production process.

http://www.errors-in-production.info

“A matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems—enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs.”

http://fffff.at/

Graduation project about cartographic projection methods.

http://www.fbg.h-da.de/projekte/

“die Tiere, die sich wie folgt gruppieren:
a) Tiere, die dem Kaiser gehören,
b) einbalsamierte Tiere,
c) gezähmte,
d) Milchschweine,
e) Sirenen,
f) Fabeltiere,
g) herrenlose Hunde,
h) in diese Gruppierung gehörige,
i) die sich wie Tolle gebärden,
k) die mit einem ganz feinen Pinsel aus Kamelhaar gezeichnet sind,
l) und so weiter,
m) die den Wasserkrug zerbrochen haben,
n) die von weitem wie Fliegen aussehen”

Aus “Die analytische Sprache des John Wilkins”, 1966
Zitiert im Vorwort zu Foucaults “Die Ordnung der Dinge”, 1974

“Something about how maps can reveal everyday practices of power.” Some examples of critical projections and mapping techniques.

http://www.radicalcartography.net/

Photography project. Constructs ironic categorizations of people by their fashion styles.

http://www.exactitudes.com

“OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based foundation for art and media Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a range of F/LOSS tools.
Since 2006, we investigate the potential of F/LOSS in a professional design environment. We do not expect to find (or offer!) the same experience as the ones we are used to. In fact, we are interested in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks.”

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/

Interview
http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/open-source-publishing-interview-with-femke-snelting/

(Not online anymore)

http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/