work by Golan Levin - the dumpster
and blogbot

social data browsing essay by manovich on the dumpster

fibreculture essay. very useful, talks about data/information. dumpster and spam art.
architecture of spam manaugh 2006

article on alex dragulescu

"My efforts [have been] to expose the ubiquitous forms in which data and technology are both actively and passively shaping the ways we perceive and construct ourselves and others," Dragulescu said.

For example, the program draws on the numeric address of an email sender and matches those numbers to a colour chart, from 0 to 225. It needs three numbers to define a colour, such as teal, so the program breaks down the IP address to three numbers so it can determine the colour of the plant. The time a message is sent also plays a role. If it's sent in the early morning, the plant is smaller, or the time might stunt the plant's ability to grow, Dragulescu said.

The size of the message might determine how bushy the plant is. Certain keywords, such as 'Nigerian', might trigger more branches. But Dragulescu did not inject any irony. Messages about Viagra do not grow taller, for example.

"I mapped it in a way to control the complexity of the plant," he said

RE:Mark (2002) interactive installation by Levin that requires users speech to generate the images.

Golan levin's site flong. useful essays

writing about alex dragulescu on generator.x and an article from the christian science monitor

dumpster by Golan Levin with links to writing. tate entry. yellowtail
tendril by ben fry

article about casey reas, ben fry and processing

wibutee vs watz casey reas

books
code: the language of our time - ars electronica 2003
visualizing data - ben fry
article about casey reas with references

interesting article about data and privacy

stop motion studies and an interview with its creator david crawford - link to documentary photography?

work found following lecture on code..
alex dragulescu spam art
unlekker 2 Marius Watz - description of his work - for sale
monsters lukas Vojir
Ben fry all streets and human vs chimps
casey reas process 8
generativeart.net

Yugo Nakamura