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Way of the Jitterbug

verfasst von : Norman T. White

Erschienen in: Robots and Art

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Norman White retraces a long, convoluted mental journey which started with a childhood love for fishing. College courses in Biology, exposure to the work of jazz pianist Lenny Tristano, a by-chance job wiring up a telephone switchboard, travel in the Middle East, and attendance at early club gigs by Pink Floyd all conspired to set him on the path of artistic experimentation using electronics. After an initial period of building “light machines”, he turned to creating interactive physical devices that have “lives of their own”, wherein programmed instructions and cycles process and respond to sensory data gathered from chaotic environments, thus giving them surprising and unpredictable behaviors.

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Fußnoten
1
Son of painter Lyonel Feininger and brother of photographer Andreas Feininger.
 
2
These were the only bulbs available at the time that had long life-expectancies. They required a hazardous 90 V to illuminate. Low voltage light-emitting diodes (LED’s) would not appear on the market until about 5 years later.
 
3
Five Pounds Stirling, or about 14 U.S. Dollars a week.
 
4
The title came from its shell of blue and green Plexiglas, scrounged by friends from Hornsey Art College bins.
 
5
These days, you see this phenomenon in scrolling message signs.
 
6
“Some More Beginnings”.
 
7
E.g., Don Lancaster (Radio Electronics Magazine), and later Steve Ciarcia (Byte Magazine) and Forest Mims III (Engineer’s Notebook).
 
8
As of this writing, more than 38 years later, “Splish Splash Two” is still 100 % operational.
 
9
Self-modifying code is very much frowned upon by professional programmers, as too easily it goes out of control.
 
10
With Ian Carr-Harris, Murray Favro, and Michael Snow.
 
11
As it was called at the time. In 1996 its name was changed to the “Ontario College of Art and Design”, and in 2010, to “OCAD University” in moves that reveal an increasingly conservative, industry-minded mentality.
 
12
The three possible states are “Yes”, “No”, and “Irrelevant”.
 
13
The installation, curated by Dr. Caroline Langill, occurred in 1994 under the broader exhibition cycle titled Invading the Imagination, which was generated out of the SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Way of the Jitterbug
verfasst von
Norman T. White
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_11