EMEDIA 1 UTAS 2012

University of Tasmania - E-Media 1 - Class Blog - Lecturer - Scot Cotterell. www.scotcotterell.com

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featuring excerpts from her groundbreaking video installation Text and Commentary(1977), artist Beryl Korot discusses how information has been encoded in lines and patterns throughout human history, whether in print media, through video, or on a weaving loom.

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a scene from a William Burroughs documentary which deals with his time in London and the cut up method. 

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The Lazarus Corporation

The Lazarus Corporation is an outpost of artists & writers whose work is characterised by an intriguing combination of visceral aesthetics, intellect, and a determination not to be assimilated by monoculture.

http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/cutup

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new look/links

a bunch of new links from the awesome prosthetic knowledge, history of TV test cards to inform your IDENT projects.

Enjoy

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LG Plasma Arc Display Panel - Burn Baby Burn

What happens when you burn out a plasma TV display with excessive voltage? What the artist Gustav Metzger described as ‘Auto-Destructive Art’. Watch the video embedded below:

Put together by Aussie50:

Best panel burn out by a long shot!, holy shit this thing is made tough! Do not try this at home, microwave transformers are far more lethal than the mains power that feeds them!

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Glitchr - Animated GIF Files in Facebook

Glitchr, the Facebook page that exploits bugs and errors within Facebook to create glitch aesthetics, demonstrates how it is possible to have small animated GIF files played within a post. Facebook doesn’t support the GIF format, so it is interesting to see it appear.

The file has to be incredibly small (38 kb, 130 x 98 pixels), and relabeled as an .mp3 file.

See for yourself here