computation
An introduction to signal theory, explaining key mathematical concepts such as ‘representation’ and ‘groups’. Max Ardito takes a technical approach to look at the constructions that produce digital images. In doing so, he asks: how does digital media age, and what influences its aging?
Joana Moll and Marloes de Valk discuss Joana’s project 4004, commissioned in 2021. Digging into the infrastructures at the heart of today’s digital technology, they discuss the role of art in the transition to a less polluting society.
TPG
2020-09
HUMAN COMPUTERS is a project that investigates the relationships between computing and labor organisation. The project is a media archaeology research that starts with the simulacra of a computing …
PALM is an ongoing project, initiated during the founding year of U5 more than ten years ago. When the members of U5 started their collaborative work a camera was installed in their basement studio. …
A team of Janelia researchers reports hitting a critical milestone: they’ve traced the path of every neuron in a portion of the female fruit fly brain they’ve dubbed the “hemibrain.” The map …
TPG Digital Curator Katrina Sluis interviews the pioneering artist Wendy McMurdo about the trajectory of her work since the 1990s and how debates around photography and digital culture have shifted.
Quotations around automation, image making and labour. Collated by Adam Brown and Nicolas Malevé for Rethinking the workshop: Workers Education in the Age of Intelligent Machines at The …
MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group focuses on making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection. The goal is to create an entirely new class of …
Jeffrey Thompson, Every Possible Photograph, 2013 Though limited to eight colors at a very low resolution, the piece will take approximately …
Lytro is building the world’s most powerful Light Field imaging platform enabling artists, scientists and innovators to pursue their goals with an unprecedented level of freedom and control. This …