December 08, 2009
Nullsleep x Videogramo, businessman__GuN__IIII, 2009, t-shirt design. During the past month I have had the pleasure to collaborate with Videogramo on a design for a new Nullsleep t-shirt. The experience was amazing and resulted in what I feel is a clear representation of the powerful synergy between our individual styles. The t-shirt bearing this graphic will first be made available at Blip Festival 2009, and subsequently at the 8bitpeoples store. Below I’ve listed a few excerpts from our communications during the collaboration. Nullsleep : a psychological attraction and, sometimes subconscious, seeking out of dangerous situations or engagement in self-sabotage … the Eros / Thanatos relationship … the fragmented view of multiple physical layers, some sections flesh and others bare bone of the skull … noisy digital artifacts that evoke a sense of human form as data …Videogramo : maybe the actual way of the design is more cyber punk, mechanic or how Gilles Deleuze says: machinic, making emphasis to the physical structure, perhaps the base, the core of the design. I will start to put accent on these parameters you mentioned very well; the distortion on sex, the paths between life and death, the politic of the error …

Nullsleep x Videogramo, businessman__GuN__IIII, 2009, t-shirt design.

During the past month I have had the pleasure to collaborate with Videogramo on a design for a new Nullsleep t-shirt. The experience was amazing and resulted in what I feel is a clear representation of the powerful synergy between our individual styles. The t-shirt bearing this graphic will first be made available at Blip Festival 2009, and subsequently at the 8bitpeoples store. Below I’ve listed a few excerpts from our communications during the collaboration.

Nullsleep : a psychological attraction and, sometimes subconscious, seeking out of dangerous situations or engagement in self-sabotage … the Eros / Thanatos relationship … the fragmented view of multiple physical layers, some sections flesh and others bare bone of the skull … noisy digital artifacts that evoke a sense of human form as data …

Videogramo : maybe the actual way of the design is more cyber punk, mechanic or how Gilles Deleuze says: machinic, making emphasis to the physical structure, perhaps the base, the core of the design. I will start to put accent on these parameters you mentioned very well; the distortion on sex, the paths between life and death, the politic of the error …

November 17, 2009
Results of JPEG Compression, Color Image, Quality Factor: 3 from Welcome to the JPEG Tutorial!

Results of JPEG Compression, Color Image, Quality Factor: 3 from Welcome to the JPEG Tutorial!

October 19, 2009

KGO-TV Pete Giddings Weather Report

October 16, 2009
Jeremiah Johnson, Data Spills, 2009, modified cartridge and game system. View Video Selections 1 2 3 Inspired by the slash paintings of Lucio Fontana – Data Spills explores the aesthetic transformations that occur when video game software is cut, spilling program logic into the representational layer. The resulting works maintain their original interactive component while presenting a broken world, at times navigable only through abstract pattern recognition. Technical notes: Portions of graphics (foreground) were cut away from the CHR ROM, and treated as a mask for the program logic (background) stored in the PRG ROM.  The data in the PRG ROM was then allowed to spill into the video display at the memory offsets equivalent to the slices made in the CHR ROM.

Jeremiah Johnson, Data Spills, 2009, modified cartridge and game system.

View Video Selections 1 2 3

Inspired by the slash paintings of Lucio Fontana – Data Spills explores the aesthetic transformations that occur when video game software is cut, spilling program logic into the representational layer. The resulting works maintain their original interactive component while presenting a broken world, at times navigable only through abstract pattern recognition.

Technical notes: Portions of graphics (foreground) were cut away from the CHR ROM, and treated as a mask for the program logic (background) stored in the PRG ROM.  The data in the PRG ROM was then allowed to spill into the video display at the memory offsets equivalent to the slices made in the CHR ROM.

October 12, 2009
People gather around a spherical object, which may be a hydrogen containment tank, on a chicken farm in Nacogdoches, Texas, USA in 2003. The object fell from the disintegrating Space Shuttle Columbia. (via The Guardian)

People gather around a spherical object, which may be a hydrogen containment tank, on a chicken farm in Nacogdoches, Texas, USA in 2003. The object fell from the disintegrating Space Shuttle Columbia. (via The Guardian)

October 10, 2009

More Bang - Glitched Advertising Display

Located on E 14th St. and Broadway at the subway entrance. Video recorded on Friday, October 9, 2009.

October 09, 2009
Jeremiah Johnson, Decade, 2009, unicode, textfile. (click image to view full-size)

Jeremiah Johnson, Decade, 2009, unicode, textfile.

(click image to view full-size)

October 08, 2009

Quantum Suicide

One example of the thought experiment is: a man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. The gun is rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won’t. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the particle is spinning counterclockwise, the gun won’t discharge; there will only be a click.

The man now pulls the trigger. The gun clicks. He pulls the trigger again, with the same result. And again; the gun does not fire. The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won’t fire. Although it’s functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never seem to fire.

Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. The man pulls the trigger for the very first time, and the particle is now measured as spinning clockwise. The gun fires. The man is dead.

But the problem arises; the man already pulled the trigger the first time — and an infinite amount of times following that — and we already know the gun didn’t fire. How can the man be dead? The man is unaware, but he’s both alive and dead. Each time he pulls the trigger, the universe is split in two. It will continue to split, again and again, each time the trigger is pulled. ­ This thought experiment is called ‘quantum suicide’. It was first posed by theorist Max Tegmark in 1997. (via Wikipedia)

October 07, 2009
Jeremiah Johnson, 0x1D, 2009, unicode, textfile.

Jeremiah Johnson, 0x1D, 2009, unicode, textfile.

October 05, 2009
Jeremiah Johnson, Torn Text (detail), 2009, unicode, textfile. (click image to view full-size)

Jeremiah Johnson, Torn Text (detail), 2009, unicode, textfile.

(click image to view full-size)

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