15 01/15
10:59

Freedom in your computer and in the net

Richard Stallman’s talk at the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg, Germany on 29 December 2014.

Freedom in your computer and in the net.

For freedom in your own computer, the software must be free. For freedom on the internet, we must organize against surveillance, censorship, SaaSS and the war against sharing.

01 01/15
13:14

Free software 30 years

| Categories: digital media, software libre

Let’s start the 2015 with free software!
Comencemos el 2015 con software libre!

Video by the FSF.

15 12/14
10:00

10 12/14
09:30

Compressions

Tags: , | Categories: Colombia, video studies

Compressions from ~{dRNn}~ on Vimeo.

Different time compressions.
Sunset in Bogotá Shot May 2010. Edited May 2014

Varias manipulaciones del tiempo.
Atardecer en Bogotá. Tomado mayo de 2010, editado mayo de 2014.

Camera/Cámara: Sony DCR-DVD201
Edit/edición: Kdenlive

05 12/14
09:00

Tool for the visualization of historical data (Chronologies)

Errata:

  1. In page 563 in paragraph 1 the sentence “In recent years, research in the humanities have started to …” should be: “In recent years, researchers in the humanities have started to …
  2. In page 563 in paragraph 2 the sentence ” … because there is no way to intervene from outside the way how the program process and render the data.” should be: “… because there is no way to intervene from outside the way how the program processes and renders the data.

The processing sketch is available here: http://bit.ly/1pifGi1

Update 20 Jan 2015: Bibliographic reference:

Montaña, Ricardo Cedeño; “Design of a tool for the visualization of historical data”, p. 563-566 . In: Proceedings of the XVIII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics: Design in Freedom [=Blucher Design Proceedings, v.1, n.8]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 2318-6968, DOI 10.5151/despro-sigradi2014-0116

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01 12/14
09:00

What is a Machine?

Tags: | Categories: machine, technical media
B17 Bomber Belly

B17 Bomber Belly. ca.1939

A machine is that which behaves in a machine-like way, namely, that its internal state, and the state of its surrounding, defines uniquely the next state it will go [1, p.261].

Thus, the material or materials from which a machine is made becomes irrelevant. As the machine becomes a function of internal and external states.


  1. Ross Ashby. Principles of the Self-Organizing System. 1962. p.261.

28 11/14
11:19

Vocoder (Voice Coder)

This is a short media history of technical sound coding and distortion, from the military scrambling of speech through the robotic sounds of Kraftwerk to today’s linear predictive coding burned into mobile phones.

03 11/14
10:57

Data visualization at Sigradi 2014

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Design of a tool for the visualisation of historical data
Ricardo Cedeño Montaña

Building: Facultad de Arquitectura – Universidad de la República
Room: Salón B2
Date: 14 Nov 2014. 15:00 – 15:20
Last modified: 03 Nov 2014

SIGRADI 2014 programme here (PDF)

ABSTRACT

In the sciences the combination of different types of analysis, textual and visual, contributes to the legibility of the results of the research. Techniques such as data visualization and information graphics have a long history in the natural and social sciences. Recently, researchers in the humanities have got interested in producing visualizations to synthesize facts and trends. The purpose is to create novel observations and analysis of historical and cultural data. This paper presents the use of programming and markup languages to design a custom and open tool for the creation of one particular type of historical data visualization: chronologies.

KEYWORDS: Data visualization, chronology, XML, processing.

PD: The processing sketch is available here: http://bit.ly/1pifGi1

10 09/14
17:26

01 08/14
15:08

Harun Farocki 1944-2014

Tags: | Categories: art, Deutschland

This is another sad week. The German film and video artist Harun Farocki has passed away last Wednesday at the age of 70. The last work I saw of him was Serious Games at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin with Nelson Vergara. Farocki’s works in video were radical in form and with a strong socio-critical content. Farocki! we will remember you.



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