Pages
Title
Accession #
94.55
Date
2013-
Author
Arcangel, Cory, 1978-
Description
In the publishing series "The Source" Cory Arcangel publishes the computer source code for his software works. The code is footnoted with...
Show moreIn the publishing series "The Source" Cory Arcangel publishes the computer source code for his software works. The code is footnoted with commentary, interviews, screenshots, sketches, and documentary images. The publications and accompanying website act as a user's manual detailing Arcangel's process for creating computer-based works and manipulating video games. "The Source embodies the ethic of openness… within the field of hackers, home hobby programmers and new media artists" – statement from Creative Capital (Sponsor). Issues No. 1 Desktop Wireform, 2010; No. 2 Pizza Party, 2004; No. 3 I Shot Andy Warhol, 2002; No. 4 On and On, 2013; No. 5 Space Invader; No. 6 HP Pen Plotter Hello World; No. 7 Dooogle; and No. 8 Six, Sixty-six; No. 1 - 8 housed in an antistatic electronics bag.
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Show moreIn the publishing series "The Source" Cory Arcangel publishes the computer source code for his software works. The code is footnoted with commentary, interviews, screenshots, sketches, and documentary images. The publications and accompanying website act as a user's manual detailing Arcangel's process for creating computer-based works and manipulating video games. "The Source embodies the ethic of openness… within the field of hackers, home hobby programmers and new media artists" – statement from Creative Capital (Sponsor). Issues No. 1 Desktop Wireform, 2010; No. 2 Pizza Party, 2004; No. 3 I Shot Andy Warhol, 2002; No. 4 On and On, 2013; No. 5 Space Invader; No. 6 HP Pen Plotter Hello World; No. 7 Dooogle; and No. 8 Six, Sixty-six; No. 1 - 8 housed in an antistatic electronics bag.
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Title
Accession #
app1.18
Author
Rimbaud, Robin, 1964-
Description
This app composed by a British experimental sound-artist creates self-generative sounds that adapts in response to its environment....
Show moreThis app composed by a British experimental sound-artist creates self-generative sounds that adapts in response to its environment. Adjusting the sensitivity and min level lets the user adjust the ambient and acoustic sound based on your everyday environment. The app can accommodate a mic headset input for it to respond to voice activation.
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Show moreThis app composed by a British experimental sound-artist creates self-generative sounds that adapts in response to its environment. Adjusting the sensitivity and min level lets the user adjust the ambient and acoustic sound based on your everyday environment. The app can accommodate a mic headset input for it to respond to voice activation.
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Title
Accession #
app1.27
Date
2008
Author
Eno, Brian, 1948-
Contributors
Chilvers, Peter
Description
This work is a collaboration between ambient musician Brian Eno and software designer Peter Chilvers. Part instrument, part composition...
Show moreThis work is a collaboration between ambient musician Brian Eno and software designer Peter Chilvers. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, this work's controls allows anyone to create elaborate patters and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when the app is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualizations.
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Show moreThis work is a collaboration between ambient musician Brian Eno and software designer Peter Chilvers. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, this work's controls allows anyone to create elaborate patters and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when the app is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualizations.
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Title
Accession #
app1.30
Date
2013
Creator (Group)
National Film Board of Canada
Contributors
McLaren, Norman, 1914-1987
Description
This app allows the user to create your own animation using the techniques of the director Norman McLaren. The app also provides access...
Show moreThis app allows the user to create your own animation using the techniques of the director Norman McLaren. The app also provides access to 51 animated films by the director. App features multiple categories including "Paper Cut-Outs," "Scratch on Film," and "Synthetic Sound." Additional educational tools are incorporated in the program to learn these creative animation techniques.
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Show moreThis app allows the user to create your own animation using the techniques of the director Norman McLaren. The app also provides access to 51 animated films by the director. App features multiple categories including "Paper Cut-Outs," "Scratch on Film," and "Synthetic Sound." Additional educational tools are incorporated in the program to learn these creative animation techniques.
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Title
Accession #
app1.8
Date
2011
Author
Murray, Adam
Contributors
Parkinson, Rob, 1949-
Description
Self-published zine started in July 2009 in order to encourage the exploration of Preston, Lancashire. This is a digital version of...
Show moreSelf-published zine started in July 2009 in order to encourage the exploration of Preston, Lancashire. This is a digital version of monthly zine contains photographs and map to view the contents of the zine in location on a map of Preston. Additional contributing artist: Robert Parkinson.
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Show moreSelf-published zine started in July 2009 in order to encourage the exploration of Preston, Lancashire. This is a digital version of monthly zine contains photographs and map to view the contents of the zine in location on a map of Preston. Additional contributing artist: Robert Parkinson.
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Title
Accession #
app1.9
Date
2011
Author
Art Golf
Description
This application simulates Mac's ripple effect screensaver, but more artistic with immortal paintings and melodious music. By touching...
Show moreThis application simulates Mac's ripple effect screensaver, but more artistic with immortal paintings and melodious music. By touching and swiping the screen, still paintings becomes dynamic with living ripple and occasional rain drops effects.
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Show moreThis application simulates Mac's ripple effect screensaver, but more artistic with immortal paintings and melodious music. By touching and swiping the screen, still paintings becomes dynamic with living ripple and occasional rain drops effects.
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Title
Accession #
16.55
Date
2017
Author
Zepka, Erik
Description
"Apotrolepomena combines the opacity of technical language, the space of noise and reasons with a system of inhuman intimacies. The...
Show more"Apotrolepomena combines the opacity of technical language, the space of noise and reasons with a system of inhuman intimacies. The robotic is personal, a folk analysis of general forms and science fiction romance - alien aphorisms, structural expressionism, love in the age of mechanical arbitrarily. Language responds in technical environments where human and machine are synonymous and the lyric, the maxim, the instruction, the protocol statement are more or less identical."--From artist's statement.
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Show more"Apotrolepomena combines the opacity of technical language, the space of noise and reasons with a system of inhuman intimacies. The robotic is personal, a folk analysis of general forms and science fiction romance - alien aphorisms, structural expressionism, love in the age of mechanical arbitrarily. Language responds in technical environments where human and machine are synonymous and the lyric, the maxim, the instruction, the protocol statement are more or less identical."--From artist's statement.
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Title
Accession #
app1.3
Date
2010
Author
Phillips, Tom, 1937-
Description
Combining the 367 full-colour pages of Tom Phillips' artist's book, the treated Victorian novel A Humument, with an interactive oracle...
Show moreCombining the 367 full-colour pages of Tom Phillips' artist's book, the treated Victorian novel A Humument, with an interactive oracle function, this App displays the luminous artwork in a fun and highly accessible way. The App version includes 39 newly created, previously unpublished pages.
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Show moreCombining the 367 full-colour pages of Tom Phillips' artist's book, the treated Victorian novel A Humument, with an interactive oracle function, this App displays the luminous artwork in a fun and highly accessible way. The App version includes 39 newly created, previously unpublished pages.
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Title
Accession #
app1.4
Date
2013
Author
Albers, Josef
Description
"First published in 1963 ... The classic text achieves its full, interactive potential in this stunning new application with iPad,...
Show more"First published in 1963 ... The classic text achieves its full, interactive potential in this stunning new application with iPad, featuring the following: full text and plate commentary; over 125 color studies; over 60 interactive plates that allow you to experiment with color and find solutions to Albers's famous problems; the ability to create, save, and export your final designs; a stunning new color palette tool; original video commentary by experts explaining Albers's principles; interviews with leading designers and artists explaining how they use color in their daily lives and work"--Introduction to the app.
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Show more"First published in 1963 ... The classic text achieves its full, interactive potential in this stunning new application with iPad, featuring the following: full text and plate commentary; over 125 color studies; over 60 interactive plates that allow you to experiment with color and find solutions to Albers's famous problems; the ability to create, save, and export your final designs; a stunning new color palette tool; original video commentary by experts explaining Albers's principles; interviews with leading designers and artists explaining how they use color in their daily lives and work"--Introduction to the app.
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Title
Accession #
app1.20
Date
2014
Author
Özkaya, Serkan, 1973-
Description
Using the iPad's GPS and compass, the app detects the object in the sky and makes it visible. The software rotates in close proximity to...
Show moreUsing the iPad's GPS and compass, the app detects the object in the sky and makes it visible. The software rotates in close proximity to the moon in the sky. Yet unlike the earth's satellite, it is visible outdoors and indoors. The app lets you take photos and share snapshots in the lower right corner of the app and the pictures are collected on the MyMoon website which builds a large pool of images.
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Show moreUsing the iPad's GPS and compass, the app detects the object in the sky and makes it visible. The software rotates in close proximity to the moon in the sky. Yet unlike the earth's satellite, it is visible outdoors and indoors. The app lets you take photos and share snapshots in the lower right corner of the app and the pictures are collected on the MyMoon website which builds a large pool of images.
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Title
Accession #
app1.29
Date
2015
Creator (Group)
National Film Board of Canada
Description
The NFB Films app allows the viewer to watch over 2500 movies—documentaries, animations and feature films – free on your iPad. Viewers...
Show moreThe NFB Films app allows the viewer to watch over 2500 movies—documentaries, animations and feature films – free on your iPad. Viewers can also search the entire NFB Film collection, browse by channel, kids and education content filters, and share films via email or social media.
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Show moreThe NFB Films app allows the viewer to watch over 2500 movies—documentaries, animations and feature films – free on your iPad. Viewers can also search the entire NFB Film collection, browse by channel, kids and education content filters, and share films via email or social media.
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Title
Accession #
119.67
Date
1991
Author
Truck, Fred
Description
ArtEngine illustrates the creation and manipulation of images through text analysis performed by an intelligent computer program.;...
Show moreArtEngine illustrates the creation and manipulation of images through text analysis performed by an intelligent computer program.; Library has no. 32 in an edition of 250. Signed by the artist.
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Show moreArtEngine illustrates the creation and manipulation of images through text analysis performed by an intelligent computer program.; Library has no. 32 in an edition of 250. Signed by the artist.
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Title
Accession #
107.9 (Storage)
Date
1988
Author
Hickman, Craig
Description
Signal to noise is a computer-based artist's book created on Macintosh computer using custom programs.
Title
Accession #
app1.10
Date
2011
Author
Saporta, Marc, 1923-
Contributors
Thompson, Simon; Uglow, Tom; Pyke, Simon
Description
Originally published as a book in France by Editions du Seuil in 1962, featuring a series of interconnected stories of a group of...
Show moreOriginally published as a book in France by Editions du Seuil in 1962, featuring a series of interconnected stories of a group of Parisians, centered around the Sorbonne. This iPad edition features: randomly shuffled pages, allowing you to play and read however much or little you want; randomized, interactive cover; slide letters around like fridge magnet; explore a typographic artwork, using the book's entire text. Introduction by Tom Uglow; design by Visual Editions and Universal Everything; programming by Simon Thompson; sound by Simon Pyke.
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Show moreOriginally published as a book in France by Editions du Seuil in 1962, featuring a series of interconnected stories of a group of Parisians, centered around the Sorbonne. This iPad edition features: randomly shuffled pages, allowing you to play and read however much or little you want; randomized, interactive cover; slide letters around like fridge magnet; explore a typographic artwork, using the book's entire text. Introduction by Tom Uglow; design by Visual Editions and Universal Everything; programming by Simon Thompson; sound by Simon Pyke.
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Title
Accession #
app1.1
Date
2011
Author
Bjork
Contributors
Snibbe, Scott; M/M (Paris); Sjón, 1962-; Dibben, Nikki; Attenborough, David, 1926-
Description
In collaboration with artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and designers at M/M (Paris). "Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative...
Show moreIn collaboration with artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and designers at M/M (Paris). "Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album's theme song Cosmogony. All of the album's songs are available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences"--iTunes store. Also includes essays by Nikki Dibben, guided tour and introductions by Sjón, and narration by David Attenborough.
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Show moreIn collaboration with artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and designers at M/M (Paris). "Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album's theme song Cosmogony. All of the album's songs are available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences"--iTunes store. Also includes essays by Nikki Dibben, guided tour and introductions by Sjón, and narration by David Attenborough.
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Title
Accession #
app1.6
Date
2011
Author
Ott, Joshue
Contributors
Packard, Morgan; Booher, Jason; Sounds of a New Century festival
Description
Thicket is an audiovisual art piece, toy, and instrument. Thicket transforms simple gestures into mesmerizing visual patterns and...
Show moreThicket is an audiovisual art piece, toy, and instrument. Thicket transforms simple gestures into mesmerizing visual patterns and kaleidoscopic sound. SONiC! is a variant of the original Thicket app created in conjunction with New York City's SONiC—Sounds of a New Century festival. Contributing artists include: Morgan Packard, Jason Booher in collaboration with Interval Studios. App has interactive sound component.
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Show moreThicket is an audiovisual art piece, toy, and instrument. Thicket transforms simple gestures into mesmerizing visual patterns and kaleidoscopic sound. SONiC! is a variant of the original Thicket app created in conjunction with New York City's SONiC—Sounds of a New Century festival. Contributing artists include: Morgan Packard, Jason Booher in collaboration with Interval Studios. App has interactive sound component.
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Title
Accession #
app1.14
Date
2014
Author
Gorman, Samantha
Contributors
Cannizzaro, Danny
Description
A story revealed by opening a character's eyes, pulling apart his memories and grasping his infinitely scrolling thoughts. Six years ago,...
Show moreA story revealed by opening a character's eyes, pulling apart his memories and grasping his infinitely scrolling thoughts. Six years ago, James–a demolition expert–returned from the First Gulf War. Explore James' mind as his vision fails and his past collides with his present. This app delivers an iPad-based reading experience in the form of a book to watch and a film to touch. App is co-authored by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman.
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Show moreA story revealed by opening a character's eyes, pulling apart his memories and grasping his infinitely scrolling thoughts. Six years ago, James–a demolition expert–returned from the First Gulf War. Explore James' mind as his vision fails and his past collides with his present. This app delivers an iPad-based reading experience in the form of a book to watch and a film to touch. App is co-authored by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman.
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Title
Accession #
app1.17
Date
2013
Author
Fakhamzadeh, Babah
Contributors
Cachucho, Eduardo
Description
Derive app is a collaboration between Babak Fakhamzadeh and Eduardo Cachucho, inspired by psychogeography as defined by the Lettrist...
Show moreDerive app is a collaboration between Babak Fakhamzadeh and Eduardo Cachucho, inspired by psychogeography as defined by the Lettrist International in the 1950s. The work activates interest and dialogue around our personal urban space. By not creating a specific guide or directing individuals to points of interest, this work allows users to discover the gaps in their urban space. Users can add task cards to the app library, try a derive app, view recent users, and recent derives from around the world.
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Show moreDerive app is a collaboration between Babak Fakhamzadeh and Eduardo Cachucho, inspired by psychogeography as defined by the Lettrist International in the 1950s. The work activates interest and dialogue around our personal urban space. By not creating a specific guide or directing individuals to points of interest, this work allows users to discover the gaps in their urban space. Users can add task cards to the app library, try a derive app, view recent users, and recent derives from around the world.
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Title
Accession #
app1.12
Date
2005
Author
Morris, Simon, 1968-
Contributors
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Morris, Christine
Description
Using your finger, the viewer randomly rewrites Sigmund Freud's text, 'The Interpretation of Dreams.' By subjecting Freud's words to a...
Show moreUsing your finger, the viewer randomly rewrites Sigmund Freud's text, 'The Interpretation of Dreams.' By subjecting Freud's words to a random re-distribution, meaning will be turned into non-meaning and you will have to make sense of the new poetic juxtapositions. Artwork by Simon Morris; Programmed by Christine Morris.
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Show moreUsing your finger, the viewer randomly rewrites Sigmund Freud's text, 'The Interpretation of Dreams.' By subjecting Freud's words to a random re-distribution, meaning will be turned into non-meaning and you will have to make sense of the new poetic juxtapositions. Artwork by Simon Morris; Programmed by Christine Morris.
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Title
Accession #
app1.13
Date
2008
Author
Koppel, Josh
Contributors
Maraniss, Ben
Description
This app is the first interactive serial created exclusively for the iPhone. With a simple swipe forward or back, the story unfolds at...
Show moreThis app is the first interactive serial created exclusively for the iPhone. With a simple swipe forward or back, the story unfolds at the user's pace, blending the literary and cinematic in an entirely new experience. First Things Last tells the story of a grandfather and grandson connected by a terrible secret, born of the atomic age. Created by Josh Koppel with screenplay by Ben Maraniss.
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Show moreThis app is the first interactive serial created exclusively for the iPhone. With a simple swipe forward or back, the story unfolds at the user's pace, blending the literary and cinematic in an entirely new experience. First Things Last tells the story of a grandfather and grandson connected by a terrible secret, born of the atomic age. Created by Josh Koppel with screenplay by Ben Maraniss.
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