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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence #307224
Artist/Writer /the-library /geoblocks ✷ https://linktr.ee/paulprudence ✷ Live: ISO/IEC 10646 ⟶ https://verse.works/series/iso-iec-10646-by-paul-prudence
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'Absence of a signal should never be used as a signal.' ~ Julian Bigelow
Bigelow was the engineer of the MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model I), 1952. The MANIAC was designed by John von Neumann. It's first task was to perform precise and extensive calculations of the thermonuclear process.
A signal that eventually created an absence.
Bigelow was the engineer of the MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model I), 1952. The MANIAC was designed by John von Neumann. It's first task was to perform precise and extensive calculations of the thermonuclear process.
A signal that eventually created an absence.
Sol LeWitt
Arcs, Circles, Grids, 1972
This one is new to me. I like the fact that although it appears as a complex interference pattern of lines and geometric shapes it retains a monolithic quality.
Arcs, Circles, Grids, 1972
This one is new to me. I like the fact that although it appears as a complex interference pattern of lines and geometric shapes it retains a monolithic quality.
Eduarda Emilia Maino (who became Dadamaino following an error in the catalogue for an exhibition in the Netherlands in 1961)
Costellazione, 1981
Costellazione, 1981
So I fell down a bit of a retro computing rabbit hole today after @stc started a quote-thread in /abandonware about the first computer we learned to code on. During some related research on early computers I came across this handsome fellow today.
The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
https://www.ibm.com/history/selective-sequence-calculator
The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
https://www.ibm.com/history/selective-sequence-calculator
The EAI PACE TR-48 analogue computer.
Tell me, who does not like the look of a computer that resembles the close kin of a modular synthesiser such as the the Arp 2500?
Tell me, who does not like the look of a computer that resembles the close kin of a modular synthesiser such as the the Arp 2500?
I remember pouring over a copied manual during a school lunch break shortly after my first contact with this machine. I was dazed by the hermetic inscriptions contained within it and which clearly gave me access to a form of intelligible magic. Nothing will ever compare to those first encounters with computing and programming ever again.
https://vt100.net/rm/docs/380zsys.pdf
https://vt100.net/rm/docs/380zsys.pdf
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At school, the RM 380Z, at home the ZX Spectrum, both at around the same time, so not exactly sure which one was the first.
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⚫️⚪️ — 24 #monochrome-monday
Hydroacoustic Study (fragment) , AV Performance. 2006.
Generative video: Paul Prudence. Sound: Francisco Lopez.
This work was a collaboration piece with the sound artist Francisco Lopez and was iterated over many different versions for live performance at media arts festivals in the late 00's. A version was also released on Richard Chartier's LINE Label as a DVD. I have many video fragments and this one is the earliest. This piece was created at a time when live sound analysis was all the rage. It was made in VVVV and used Francisco's incoming sound to modulate the video. We played this loud on big screens, it was noisy and visceral. We wanted to singe the audiences eyelashes. With all the shit going on in this world right now, I feel like I could easily start making this kind of work again as a form of release as a counterpoint to my quieter work.
Hydroacoustic Study (fragment) , AV Performance. 2006.
Generative video: Paul Prudence. Sound: Francisco Lopez.
This work was a collaboration piece with the sound artist Francisco Lopez and was iterated over many different versions for live performance at media arts festivals in the late 00's. A version was also released on Richard Chartier's LINE Label as a DVD. I have many video fragments and this one is the earliest. This piece was created at a time when live sound analysis was all the rage. It was made in VVVV and used Francisco's incoming sound to modulate the video. We played this loud on big screens, it was noisy and visceral. We wanted to singe the audiences eyelashes. With all the shit going on in this world right now, I feel like I could easily start making this kind of work again as a form of release as a counterpoint to my quieter work.
(Close crop) of Bismuth Landscape
https://rodeo.club/post/0xe51B3e7CB63615F74323DDDC9F423c3f3AB83eB3/222
https://rodeo.club/post/0xe51B3e7CB63615F74323DDDC9F423c3f3AB83eB3/222
Observations of The Zodiacal Light
From Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854 @britishlibrary
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11047872926/in/album-72157638850077096/
From Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854 @britishlibrary
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11047872926/in/album-72157638850077096/
Bismuth Landscape
Latest addition to my Microscapes collection on @objktcom at an accessible 8tz.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1941UNPi2SSama3ZS7WaFWFhrTN1gXcHVb/19
Latest addition to my Microscapes collection on @objktcom at an accessible 8tz.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1941UNPi2SSama3ZS7WaFWFhrTN1gXcHVb/19
Tou (Emptiness as Form)
Happy to be included in "Absence" an exhibition organised by ACTZ - Art Commissions on @objktcom and curated by @rdtothemoon. This is a 1/1 in auction for 48hrs. The auction has been kicked off.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1Gax6ccBcGkDHeoUFFzqhEdfry3WA5xKMi/29
Happy to be included in "Absence" an exhibition organised by ACTZ - Art Commissions on @objktcom and curated by @rdtothemoon. This is a 1/1 in auction for 48hrs. The auction has been kicked off.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1Gax6ccBcGkDHeoUFFzqhEdfry3WA5xKMi/29