code – EECLECTIC /en/produkt-schlagwort/code/ Digital Publishing for Visual Culture Mon, 19 May 2025 14:28:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eeclectic.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-EE-blau-signet-32x32.png code – EECLECTIC /en/produkt-schlagwort/code/ 32 32 Fix My Code https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt/fix-my-code/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:54:45 +0000 https://eeclectic.de/?post_type=product&p=140 Breaking points between code and culture – exemplified by the net.art generator. Starting with a broken tool, two artists engage in a thrilling dialogue about code, the aesthetics of the dysfunctional and the female coder as the lasting exception

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]]> The net.art generator is a computer program that collects and recombines material from the internet to create new images. In the course of the 20 years of its existence, it not only became a classic of net.art, but alongside the images, also generated a number of discourses – not the least in the context of copyright and open source. Its most recent disruption has been related to a change in search engine politics. Relying on a Google interface, the program cannot do its job properly anymore and has to permanently frustrate its users, since the giant requires payment for its services.

The inventor of the net.art generator, Cornelia Sollfrank, engages in a dialogue with the programmer, artist and researcher Winnie Soon to discuss the question of “What is to be done?”. They take us on a journey into the eventful past of the project, they descend into the level of computer code exploring the value of the breaking points, and speculate on a less evil future.

Once more, the net.art generator lives up to its reputation! It is a playful tool to create fancy images, but, beyond that, it remains a conceptual tool that helps to comprehend the complexity of post-digital culture by revealing some of the hidden and invisible structures that make our daily lives work, especially when they break down.
Published with the support of Aarhus University Research Foundation

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]]> Dit and Dah https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt/dit-and-dah/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:24:53 +0000 https://eeclectic.de/?post_type=product&p=2681 A creative usage and approach in cryptic Morse code that explores the world of nonverbal communication to find creative solutions and build inclusiveness in learning

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]]> These pages filled with dots and dashes will be a starting point for you to engage in a nonverbal world of communication called Morse code. Originally Morse code was a vital method of radio communication during the second world war and a standard distress communication until 1999, but many innovative geniuses are bringing back this communication as a creative platform. Because Morse code is a cryptic code that can only be deciphered by a small percentage of people who have been trained or have learned to use it, it feels like it is unprecedented in the world of creative communication.

It would not be surprising if we had missed out hearing secret codes that one of our favorite bands has been subtly chiming right into our ears, the blinking lights you had seen one night on top of the hill facing your window, a series of finger taps on a table top by a seemingly engrossed young man gambling away in a board game in a park.

In fact, today Morse code is a versatile tool both in the world of fiction and in the real world. I hope that this small introduction can demonstrate how creative a new communication structure using Morse code.

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