#nicolas nova

[kenyatta]

(via A Bestiary of the Anthropocene. Hybrid plants, animals, minerals, fungi and other specimens – We Make Money Not Art)

[zzkt]

Vos témoignages / Your testimonials

Nicolas nous a quittés le 31 décembre 2024 à la suite d’un arrêt cardiaque. Dans son élément, il voyageait, randonnait et explorait. Utilise

[volumique]

8-Bit Reggae

http://volumique.com/v2/portfolio/8-bit-reggae-collision-and-creolization/

[martinahuynh]

GESTURAL INTERACTION IN THE DIGITAL EVERYDAY

[oraclesofnorway]

Nicolas Nova sees dada in big data

Nicolas Nova observes our digital practices as did Claude Lévi-Strauss with his sad tropics. In “Dadabot”, a formidable essay on “creolization” in the digital age, he and Joël Vacheron give an overview of this “new human-machine relationship”. Interview.

What is the role of code, of algorithms or of the machine in what you call “dadabot”?

As soon as we talk about machine production or algorithms that produce cultural content, we raise the question of machine autonomy. For example, David Cope wrote a program that analyzes Mozart’s symphonies to create another symphony that is “Mozart-like”. The point is that the result is neither Mozart nor David Cope nor the program, but all reunited. So that raises the questions of “Is there an author?” and “What is the role of machines?” The computer that runs the programs, the script that describes the program and the software that displays it form a whole encompassed by a chain of operation whose various elements cannot be isolated. It’s because there are people who program machines, who pick up content produced by other people, and this content is reassembled by the same program that runs on certain machines, that unique forms are created. It’s difficult to identify who is responsible for what!

(via Nicolas Nova sees dada in big data : Makery)

[disnovation]

Les technologies, entre magie et perte de contrôle

Les technologies, entre magie et perte de contrôle (french only).

[brucesterling]

http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2014/12/10/8-bit-reggae-an-interview-with-goto80

*"8-Bit Reggae" is a remarkably interesting culture-studies book, considering how utterly obscure that form of music is

[tsparks]

   NN : In this context, what’s the importance of science-fiction according to you?

WE : In lab-testing the potential pressures of all possible futures.  And in universalising the poetry of science, which is the machinery of the world. by