Making Art Out of Found Objects

Programming Methodology Making a Science out of an Art

This attitude is common and may even be reasonable for casual programming. For any serious programming, however, it invites disaster. A casual program bears little resemblance to the system of a thousand to a million lines of codes that a professional must be able to write (and read) in concert with as many as fifty other people. Such a program must be correct, as simple as possible, and capabl...

Sonically Augmented Found Objects

We present our work with augmented everyday objects transformed into sound sources for music generation. The idea is to give voice to objects through technology. More specifically, the paradigm of the birth of musical instruments as a sonification of objects used in domestic or work everyday environments is here considered and transposed into the technologically augmented scenarios of our conte...

Figuring Out Art History

World population and the number of cultural artifacts are growing exponentially or faster, while cultural interaction approaches the fidelity of a global nervous system. Every day hundreds of millions of images are loaded into social networks by users all over the world. As this myriad of new artifacts veils the view into the past, like city lights covering the night sky, it is easy to forget t...

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari