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for the actual relevant stuff uh this is
a performance by Jeffrey SC AKA y
Jeffrey is on tour with this performance
uh this is his 30 41st time he's doing
it and it's titled radical digital
painting and uh well the floor is
yours thank
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you so it's the last day of chaos
computer Congress and I'm here from
America to present to you a little thing
called radical digital painting
and radical digital painting is going to
be a bit of extreme painting Theory
combined with some new software
inventions for different painting
related things so if you're interested
in painting this will definitely be
interesting to you if you think Joseph
boy would have used Linux then this is
also going to be very interesting if uh
if you sometimes watch Steve Jobs do
presentations you might also find this
sort of interesting but let's begin with
a bit of painting Theory
right so to start we're going to be
talking today about digital painting and
digital painting is a very interesting
topic right so we have these two words
we have the word digital and we also
have the word painting so let's bring
the lights up just a little bit let's
bring the stage lights up yeah that's
right all right so we want to talk about
these two words digital and painting and
when we think about digital things we
generally think of digital things as
being what as being reproducible right
so for example if we were to have the
simplest possible the simplest possible
Digital Image it would have to be an
image that looked something like this
right it would have to basically be a
one by one pixel image something that
you would see like here so let's do that
in black and white because we're in one
bit mode right so here we have a kind of
black and white single image right it's
going to be a one by one pixel image
something like that now as we know this
pixel this bit can either be filled in
or not filled in it can be filled in or
not filled
in so here's an example that's not
filled in right but if you only have an
image that's one by one pixel it can
only be two colors then you can really
only have two possible images right so
that's a bit about it's a bit about
digital things right so digital things
are kind of reproducible and they're
made of information right we all know
digital file formats and such you can
prod some so what makes digital things
special is that we have these sort of
info formats that we Define right
standards that we Define but what
actually makes painting interesting what
makes painting interesting has nothing
to do with reproducibility as a matter
of fact it has everything to do with the
fact that things aren't necessarily
reproducible right so for example here I
have a small painting of me as a kid as
you can see here and so uh you know
what's nice about this is that you can
see all the sort of material details you
can see all the little you know oh yeah
you can see yeah it's really it's
in-depth right this kind of this kind of
[ __ ] you can't really make this stuff
out of information right this is this is
some special [ __ ] right this is some
unique ass material Arrangement [ __ ]
that we're dealing with here right so
that's basically what we value in
painting right what we love about
painting is the fact that it's kind of a
unique object right there can only
really be one painting right uh and so
that's kind of also how painting sort of
uh you know uh is is sold for a lot of
money right because you can't really
reproduce it so if we're going to
seriously talk about the ontological
issues surrounding digital painting
right what digital painting actually is
is it's kind of these things getting
sort of smashed together right it's the
idea that you are going to be painting
with a medium that is reproducible and
is not necessarily valued based on its
uniqueness and uh but in a tradition
that does value Things based on its
reproducibility or non-reproducibility
as it would say so digal painting is
kind of an interesting topic in that
sense so as I was saying the simplest
possible digital painting would have to
be a one by one pixel image that could
either be black or white but as we all
know Digital Image formats don't
necessarily have to be shown on a
computer right so here we are on the
screen and I could you know I could give
you a little example of this of this
kind of image here right I could
basically say all right we're going to
we're going to use this super cool
painting program that I made that allows
you to paint one pixel paintings so now
we have a black painting and now we have
a white painting right and so just like
I was showing you before this is
basically our one by one pixel image but
it's not defined by the computer itself
right we're talking about abstract
thought here right in the same sense
that Albert Einstein would go ahead and
he would have a you know Albert Einstein
was would have like a a a Blackboard or
something like that and he would go to
the Blackboard and he would say e equal
MC squared right now it doesn't
necessarily matter that this is is
projected uh on a camera it doesn't
matter what pen I draw this with right
because what we care about in
information is we care about the actual
ideas that are presented to us right we
don't necessarily care about the fact
that it's on paper we just care about
the fact that it's uh you know that the
the formula is there right that the info
relationships are there so that's
basically what we're you know what we're
kind of you know thinking about when it
comes to digital painting so here we can
change the color of these things like
this
but then we can get into some other
ideas right what if we were going to go
what if we were going to go up in
resolution what if we were going to use
more than one pixel right what if we
were going to go so high in resolution
that we could do a 2X two pixel image oh
yeah 2 by two right then you can then
you can start to do a couple more
different things but then what if we
were going to do a 4x4 pixel image right
we can still sort of pick one pixel at a
time but then if we were going to do an
8 by8 you know then things start to get
a bit interesting right around this
point right around this point when you
have this much information you can
actually start to draw a mark and see
that you can actually draw a mark right
if you're only using one pixel you don't
necessarily you're not really able to
create paint Strokes right you're not
really able to create marks if you will
so a bit more about that let's talk now
about the concept of resolution because
resolution is an extremely interesting
topic especially when it comes to making
images now if you were going to go to
the Apple Store and you were going to
buy the brand new iPad Pro you know the
iPad Pro is super cool it's got like 300
400 pixels per inch you know super high
super high resolution on that thing but
that's basically thinking about
resolution from the point of view of the
consumer right I want to talk about
resolution this morning from the point
of view of the maker so we're going to
talk about
resolution
resolution in terms of
behavior we're going to talk about how
different levels of resolution actually
change the behaviors that are possible
in different kinds of images so that's
basically what we're going to be looking
at right so we already talked a little
bit about low resolution and we can
represent low resolution with a couple
little candies like
this so here we are down in the depths
of low
resolution something like that very nice
low resolution and I think we're going
to put on some Hue shift get a little
bit action so this is low resolution
right we only have four pixels here and
of course a pixel is just short for
picture element so it doesn't
necessarily matter what we're using
right whether we're using squares on a
screen or whether we're you know whether
we're sort of using uh you know these
different these harabo candies here like
we can kind of you know we could rip
these apart in different kind of things
anyway so low resolution the primary
thing you do at low resolution is you
arrange things one by one so if I wanted
to create a kind of interesting image
here I could basically let's see I could
basically do this
and do that right now I can undo
something or I can redo something so I
can say oh I don't like that right there
but then I can undo that right so you
get some interesting Concepts over here
at low resolution you get first of all
you get the basic idea that you have the
oops that pen doesn't work you get the
basic idea of the artistic composition
itself so the whole idea of the
composition you get here so you get the
composition and then you get this other
cool idea about the undoing and redoing
of things
so let's show a bit of
that so you can undo and redo
stuff but basically what you're doing at
low resolution is you're arranging
things so this is the level of
resolution where your primary behavior
is one of arrangement now if we're going
to go up to an higher
resolution we want to get some more
pixels in our image right we need we
need some more [ __ ] yeah more
information
more information so if we wanted to you
know deal with an an image that had this
many pixels right we wouldn't just
arrange things one by one because this
is a very short talk and we don't have a
lot of time so the primary thing that
we're going to do here is we're going to
start to carve through or move around
multiple pixels in Aggregate and as I
was saying before so we're going to say
this is a medium resolution kind of idea
as I was saying before this is only
something that is kind of possible uh
when you have enough bits right when you
have enough enough information so over
here on low resolution if I were to try
to make a mark right it doesn't really
look like I can represent a Mark I can't
carve a path because I there's so few
pieces of information that you can't
actually see how that thing was made but
here I could of course go through and
you could start to see a trace of a path
so only when you have a certain amount
of information can you represent stuff
so really at medium resolution we get
the ability to do Mark
making we can finally do Mark making
over here at medium resolution
now if we wanted to get to an even
higher level of resolution in other
words high
resolution we're going to talk about
high resolution but to do high
resolution we're going to need a super
super super high resolution technology
right we're going to need something
extremely high rest we're going to need
a technology called
versifying captures the fine details
like no other right so for versifying
now pay attention to what what happens
here at high resolution pay attention
what
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happens okay one
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more right now let's bring the music
down just for just for a
second because high resolution if you
notice it's very interesting high
resolution is very interesting kind of
thing because I didn't begin with
information right on the page I actually
began by scanning something in right the
first thing I did was I imprinted or I
sort of copied my fingerprint and then I
made a reproduction right so high
resolution is a super interesting
Behavior it's basically where scanning
becomes possible it's the behavior in
which you can finally scan something in
right and and we all know high
resolution is high resolution is all
about the the bde right the the Big Data
energy right so people who are
interested in high resolution things
tend to be like governments and you know
surveillance and stuff like that right
and the interesting thing about things
at high resolution is you know you care
about all this information so if I were
to delete this fingerprint I can't
really get it back right so here you
have the idea that you can undo or redo
something in low resolution in medium
resolution you can create a mark and you
could erase the mark but you could also
redraw the mark so you can
erase like that and of course at high
resolution there you go you can erase
and at high resolution you can actually
delete something so that's a quick
overview of
resolution as a model of behavior as
opposed to a model of you know just
simple uh detail or Fidelity right
usually when we're going to buy an HDTV
or a fancy iPad we want the highest
resolution but if we're making images we
might often want the lowest resolution
or the medium resolution and you can
start to look at this graph as a kind of
chart and you can start to think about
different creative software that allows
you to manipulate information in
different ways right right for example
Photoshop Adobe Photoshop might be
somewhere around here on the chart where
it has features for manipulating high
resolution images and features for
manipulating low uh medium resolution
images and something that's a low
resolution uh sort of editor might be oh
you know we're at CCC so we might say
emac or Vim is you know basically
designed to move individual components
around one by one right you're arranging
individual things compositionally so
when you're writing or you're composing
music with notes or you know even if
you're using Adobe illust Ator for
example AI Adobe Illustrator yeah uh
even if you're using Adobe Illustrator
you know you're basically the primary
thing you're doing is moving things
around one by uh one by one and you can
start to actually look at people this
way you could say graphic designers tend
to be better at arranging things
painters tend to be better at making
marks photographers tend to be better at
shooting scans but for now we're going
to get into a bit of
software that's right we're going to
look at some drawing software that I've
created that jumps around this graph in
different
places so first
one this is a very a very very simple
one you might be saying okay Jeffrey
this is going to be the stupidest strong
program I've ever
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seen hi now what I'm doing here is I'm
basically just copying and pasting
things from a square and so this is a
it's a very simple draw tool kind of
like the first one that I showed you and
it's basically about arranging things
right one by
one now I kind of believe in a concept
of innovation as it is related
to uh you know I sort of think
Innovation occurs anytime you change the
speed or space of a given technology so
you might be saying okay Jeffrey this is
kind of this is kind of a lame uh
painting program because all you can do
is you know copy this square and move it
around I can do that in Photoshop I can
go into Photoshop I can hit the
rectangular Marquee tool I can hit
command C command V or whatever and I
can basically do the same exact thing
but because you can only do this
operation in this software and because
it's sped up I would argue that it gives
you a different kind of browsable image
space right and as we as we were talking
earlier um I would I would basically say
that if you think about this idea of
that one pixel image being only black
and white right you can only make two
possible images if you have one bit of
information if you expand that concept
out to even 1280 x 720 which is the
resolution we're looking at here if you
expand that concept out then you can
still only have actually a limited
configuration of information right so
every drawing program in that sense once
you have it sort of uh defined your
borders you've also sort of defined the
limits of what is possible uh in that
program so I tend to think of painting
software not so much as tools for
creating images but tools for browsing
different kinds of possibilities within
a sort of given image space all right so
for example let's just change not the
speed but the space of that software so
we're going to do basically the same
operation at the same speed but in a
different space right now we're using
circles instead and so here we can do a
little a little Pokemon type of thing
hi something kind of basic and cute like
that of course it's copy and paste right
so we could do something like that here
we could take take this off and sort of
start to think maybe maybe this is going
to be some hands or something right so
it's it's the same basic software but
I've changed the space right and I would
say as soon as you change the space or
the speed of a software that's where you
can actually see some technological
innovation so that's where new
technology gets created and often I
think at least in my case the best
Technologies are often uh simple
reconfigurations of you know engineering
problems that have already been that
have already been
solved Moving On Moving
On
we're going to go full Steve Jobs now
we're going to take out an Apple device
because we're going to look at some iOS
software so here we're talking about
jumping between perhaps the idea that
you can create a scan or you can create
an arrangement of scans so here's a
little program that allows me to make
some things like
this we do a little face here maybe this
guy
nice and maybe we'll get some
ears I'll do this one this is called
finger quilts it's very basic kind of
very basic kind of software and we could
go and use my
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face
uh right so that's basically kind of
finger quilt software and of course we
could get the sound guy in there we
could get some of the audience but then
they might they didn't sign release form
so we have to delete his image and
things like that right so that's
basically finger quilt and we can also
think about the idea of going to
uh taking scans with marks right so
here's a program called o Twitter
follower that's some CCC that's an CCC
style right so here we are thinking
about a different kind of idea now what
we can do is we can do something like
this where we can make a
mark But The Mark is coming directly
from the camera so we're scanning in
things but it's basically slowing down
the process of Photography if that makes
sense and actually if we want to switch
to this uh desk camera here you can see
a bit more in
action let's switch to this camera if
it's possible nice so you can get a
sense now so I have this this thing
here and then you can see I can sort of
grab things from underneath the camera
so it becomes a kind of compositional
tool that combines photography and
drawing in one single sort of uh one
single sort of action okay switch back
switch back to the other
camera thank you all right so that's
shrub and now I'm going to show you
another little simple one and you can
actually go to this one right now you
can go to this URL this is a live URL
everybody this is a Live Hack no it's
just a live website so you can go to the
software this is basically a simple
program that paints automatically it's
called no paint and if you don't like
what it's painting you can just say no
and it will start to paint something
else so you can say
no no no no and if you like it you can
say paint and it'll start to something
new for you so paint basically freezes
the stroke and continues on to something
else paint paint no no and I often like
that's kind of nice so then you can
pause and then you can save the image
and draw on it or do whatever you will I
kind of think about this as sort of my
scobby like if anybody makes kombucha
this is sort of my scobby for digital
painting so it's kind of a sketching
tool where I can generate an image but
then I draw on top of it right so it's a
sort of Sweet Spot between generating
and then saying you like something or
don't like something it's inspired by
this software called pick breeder um
which is a pretty excellent uh
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project
right but that's enough Steve Jobs so
let's go back to the open web where
we've been this whole time right let's
go back to some cool web-based software
I'm going to show you now well let's
take let's take a short interlude
because I am a painter and I make
digital paintings so I'm going to show
you some of my digital paintings
here move this out of the way so here's
some of my digital paintings this is a
512 x 512 image there's a little worm
here and some other things some
computery symbols yeah 765 you know
we're counting backwards you know stuff
like
that I always sign my paintings like uh
with the year the month the day the hour
the minute and the latitude and the
longitude very
often we'll do another one one this is
me driving my car it's a Volvo 1993 as
you can see here it says I love my car
and then here's me yeah I'm kind of
crashing it
like and here's my mom she's like oh
Jeffrey you crossed your car I'm so sad
you know that kind of thing worried mom
Jeffrey crashing his car in the middle
of the night you know speeding across
that's right so here's another one this
is one that's painted on my phone and
when I draw on my phone I use a lot of
Photography this is kind of a nice uh
little uh software of mine as well this
is a um this uh sort of PowerPoint
presentation is also a drawing tool so
if I want to add some Evil Eyes to My
toast then I can go ahead and do that
there's some networking equipment here
hidden in the picnic
table here's some more is a nice
motivational poster it says you're
weirder than the weed and stronger than
the coffee very nice and here's a a
nipple piercing that I've turned into a
reindeer there
a bit of poetry here's my niece aspin
she lives in Alaska and then here's a
here's a kind of a portrait of her and
then she also draws on her tablet too so
here's a drawing she did on her Amazon
Kindle here's some more I often will put
my face in the picture as well Instagram
generation blah blah blah this is some
more sexual content so here we have a a
butt plug that has been turned into a
spider as you can see here and then
everyone knows late at night when you're
looking at your Microsoft Intel Mouse
Explorer 3.0 and you're seeing the LEDs
come out of the back of the mouse that
it looks like lips so I took a photo of
that and turn it into these lips
everyone knows that right so here's a uh
here's one that's um made entirely in
that finger quilt software so this is an
extension cord uh basically an extension
cord that I was moving around on the
lawn like in the yard and taking photos
of it this is just made in a few minutes
with that one software the iPhone
software here's one more
here's some newer
ones now the primary way that I show my
paintings is I show them live like this
in in sort of slideshow format because
the thing is when you're painting with
information or when the thing that
you're kind of thinking about is
information uh we're back at the
beginning now when you're painting with
information you kind of have to think
about the way in which you display
things a bit differently right
so I sort of like to think about uh I
sort of like to think about my paintings
as being more like poetry right so you
know poetry is traditionally a art form
that's made of information and so
there's all different ways in which that
could be viewed right or looked at so I
tend to think about uh digital painting
as something that doesn't necessarily
have to be exhibited on a wall or
printed out of course you can do that
but I think that because it's
information it opens up all new
possibilities uh for display um all
right so now I'm going to show
you the very first drawing program that
I've created but where's my time cards
how am I doing on time good good on time
okay so this is a piece of software
called the polygon replicating bit map
authoring tool it's a very very cool one
it's the first one that I ever wrote and
I did this for my undergraduate thesis
so when I opened up Photoshop uh when I
opened up Photoshop basically I was like
watching my friend sleeping my beautiful
art art student friend Alex and I was
like oh it's like very romantic I'm
going to make a nice portrait of Alex on
my waycom tablet it's going to be super
cool and then that's why I opened up
photoshop with my waycom and she was
sleeping in the studio and it was like I
had a candle it was very very nice like
AER style digital painting and then I
opened up Photoshop and it takes like 30
seconds to load and it goes all through
all the creators and then it's like what
is the width and height of your image
and I was like oh man like way to break
the mood Photoshop um you know like I
don't want to just give you two numbers
I want to give you more information I
want to give you a whole bunch of
numbers I don't want to think about
rectilinear images is I want to think
about shaped base images like this right
so this is a software where you don't
actually enter the width and height of
your image at the beginning but you
enter in the sort of shape of your image
and then if you actually want to draw
things you have to draw the shapes of
your brushes so here I am I've created a
brush and I can now draw with that
brush like that so we'll make another
one
here we'll do a little pill yeah like
that
we can give it uh we can do some
four-dimensional copy and paste right so
I can record a mark and then hold the
mouse down and then I can repeat that
Mark anywhere like
that of course orientation is also a big
deal you know if you're drawing on paper
you can easily rotate the page so I made
it so you can easily rotate the the
image we'll do some cutouts
here so here's a cutout brush like that
you can Al rotate the brush if you keep
rotating the brush it'll sort of go on
its own and so what I can do here is I
can make a little drawing
machine like kind of craft work drawing
machine techno
right and then we can do another cutout
so I'll cut out this whole thing
yeah and we'll do one of
these get down like
that great um we'll change the
background color to Black yeah
maybe we'll also if you spin this
around the canvas can keep spinning so
I'll show you a bit of that can draw
like
this this is basically designed with a
wd kind of uh you know WD kind of kind
of thing right so if you look at all the
keyboard shortcuts they're all kind of
WD and mouse because I was a big sort of
Quake player you know I played a lot of
Death Match growing up and so when I
came to painting I was like painting
could be kind of like playing a quake
game in a way at least the software that
I that I made
right so this is a pretty interesting
piece of software and my friend was like
a Jeffrey the software is super cool I
really love this program but uh you know
what I really want I really want to be
able to flip an image around you know I
want to be able to mirror something and
I was like a man mirroring is is really
lame you don't like you know you
basically want to flip something
horizontally right and I thought well
the best way to flip something
horizontally would be if you could
somehow improvise that flip and so I
thought what if you could just turn the
image around and there you could get
your horizontal flip like that so here I
am doing a bit of improvisational
horizontal
flipping now of course you can also add
the vertical
flipping and then of course the spin and
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah now
most creative software is is also a
modal application design and this is
what's unique about this is that it's
non-modal so uh for example if I wanted
to you know switch if I wanted to just
use all the tools at the same time I
could do that that right so I could
build more complicated drawing machines
I could also put the surface on a bit of
a shake as well right so you can do all
these features at once I can change
colors while drawing and blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah right so
that's the polygon replicating bitmap
authoring tool quite an interesting
drawing program and I have one more
drawing program that I'm going to show
you and if we could just quickly switch
to the top camera once more I'll show
you this
controller yeah so this is the
controller that uses it you can see the
bottom left of the screen I'm using
these dials to control all the
properties um and we can switch back I
think we can switch back to the the
camera
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now great so this is basically an ET
sketch as they say on acid so you can
record these little dots like
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this now many of you may know the smart
engineers in the audience that your
brain has a kind of dedicated piece of
hardware for recognizing faces right
that is very very old it's in it's in
reptiles as well reptiles can recognize
faces but as soon as you rotate the face
around that part of your brain flips off
right and when the face becomes right
side up it flips back on again so if you
were to spin a face around you're sort
of tickling your brain in an interesting
way now of course if you spin it really
really fast that tickle a completely
different part of your brain so we're
not going to talk about that quite yet
um but let's make another one let's make
another one
now in Germany you guys are really also
great engineers and in the future
there's probably going to be well you
might be driving down the autoban right
fun fun fun on the autoban you know like
that kind of thing but you're not
actually going to be driving right it's
going to be more of a tarkovski kind of
thing you're going to be just a
passenger and instead you're going to be
in a self-driving car and the traffic
lights are going to change too right in
the future the traffic lights aren't
necessarily going to be traffic lights
readable by humans they're going to be
more like traffic lights readable by a
machine so here's sort of a concept
design for traffic light where you know
the traffic light might be blinking with
different colors and different
softnesses or Alpha levels and things
like that so I do think that if you're
designing something like a QR code or if
you're designing something that's going
to be put on the road or something like
that in the future for machines to read
you should also think about the fact
that humans are going to see that too
but you have a lot of artistic potential
there for something being both machine
readable and human
appreciable right so here's a futuristic
5 minutes great so here's a futuristic
traffic light and now I'm going to bring
up something I baked up a little bit
earlier we cooked this up a little
earlier something like that right and um
we're going to head over into the raster
mode where we can actually use these
things as brushes like
this now of course this is this is sort
of a wallpaper designer right so I can
switch to this first one h all right and
we can do some
stamps we can get some more
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space we can
rotate but then it's all sort of
repeated on a
pattern let's head over to our traffic
light let's do a bit of
drawing like
that
okay but let's enter into a different
Zone because of course when you spin
things around you get some nicer effects
so now we're into that different part of
your
brain not the part of your brain that
recognizes faces but something very
different
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I'm
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destabilize anyway so we leave this here
for now
and
um yeah so the last thing I want to show
you is a thing called 10-minute painting
and I think that's going to cut into the
questions a little bit uh because it's
10 minutes long but we're going to run
that right now and then we're going to
have just two or three minutes for
questions I believe if that makes sense
so let's bring up the volume 10 painting
by J
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10min painting.com what are the forms of
non painting and what are the non forms
a painting might take painter David hne
once said video brings its time to you
and you bring your time to painting and
that difference will always be there
what would it be like to play a painting
it would be the most beautiful thing in
the system it would be more beautiful
than the platform itself a beautiful
painting is a painting that can be run
over and over again you are looking at a
painting comprised of many l bits listen
a beautiful painting is a Poe that can
be executed over and over again
repetition is the only thing that makes
something less random than it already is
video games are the most recent form of
film maying known to the human r that is
why video games are rely Sten for books
books like video games are alive only in
the moments they are being read top
mathematicians and Painters often work
at the same same scale the professor's
large neuralized blackb serves as ainal
Space by which abstractions are
developed whereas the painter substrate
serves as an indelible artifact of
material Arrangement professors have
just as much of a fetish for their tools
as little painters do they prefer hard R
A discontinued brand of Japanese shock
over anything most and our keen on
porcelain surfaces they enjoy the
lyrical Mark making capability of Chu
and even share techniques like breaking
the stick in and drawn with his side to
Rend holographic lines a viral video of
physics Professor Walter's Blackboard
work shows this Bish is shared by a much
wider audience there is a collective
detain for dry W white boards which are
often derived as inferior in capability
and more difficult to maintain than the
black board white boards operate in a
more Uniform World where their marks
look consistent regardless of the
individual that Drew them perhaps this
is why they are more popular in business
meetings they silence the aesthetic of
the individual and favor of the group
all digital media objects exist as a
collection of reproducible bits and so
their materiality yields little meaning
because of this painting today aspires
to be understood through a out of
abstract terms similar to those which
have been developed for mathematics and
poetry a painting is just a kind of
picture message video games are nothing
less than sty learning cures and
everyone those video games are for total
losers to live with their families paint
brushes like guns and PlayStation
controllers are content Management
systems for your field of view this is
why painting is the best video game
world news as a landscape versus world
news as a streaming versus handwritten
cursive and the margin of something
printed my mother is a great quilter for
what it's worth the best way to consume
a photograph is to take one immediately
then you can hold it directly in front
of your face to arrange elements in a
virtual space space one must Define that
space things that are real versus things
that are fake versus if a painting is
defined as an abstract container capable
of representing two colors then there
are only two possible paintings if poems
were only one letter long using an
alphabet containing two letters then
there would only be two possible poems
with an alphabet of seven letters I can
configure Ros all [ __ ] day this
program is now in dialogue with its own
material delivery the PO program you are
looking at is comprised of over
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65,536 reproducible picture elements or
pixels each of these is capable of
representing over 16.7 million colors it
takes place in real time and like a deck
of cars it is the same no matter how it
is shoed the icons appearing on the edge
of the frame are used in new the
progress bar you will see 124 of them in
addition to more flowers by the time I
stop speaking my voice is triggered by
the web speech synthesis API the sound
and gender is dependent on the browser
software implementers your machine
operating system and my personal
preferences the names we give to the
constituents of a painting are more
important than what they are actually
made of paintings like b art frames
within which dreams are broadcast the
arithmetic for calculating the number of
possible combinations of pixels here is
more than
65,536 to the power of about 16.7
million the resulting integer is very
wide but not infinite similar to web
browsers software like mac paint or Roto
shop allows users to serve these fast
but limited visual spaces through
accumulated means such as plotting
individual pixels filling large regions
and filtering the entire set of pixels
at once each new painting program or
feature that gets introduced into the
ecosystem allows for more focused and
opinionated surveying of these spaces
serving is always more fun in
permutation if scratching is a process
by which hidden things expose themselves
then we can say that all paintings are
made from scratch gritted linear
Arrangements of pixels make them easy
for digital computers to read but
difficult for humans to process and
memorize screen pixels are becoming
smaller more numerous and less visible
to the eye and now we will consume a
more open definition of them pixels need
not be the same size nor side by side in
a grid they don't need to be made of the
same material they can be as abstract as
possible determined only by the highest
level with meaning they are able to
obtain by this understanding Rock host
signature paintings are to be
interpreted as just a few pixels in
width and height and several pixels Deep
by raising the meaning of a pixel higher
than that of a singly colored gritted
unit we can study paintings and modify
or reexecute them as easily as if they
were a mathematical formula I have a
painting for you now three Swedish Fish
candies stare at one another in a circle
one is flipped over another shiny it has
been sucked on and spit back out a
little square just appeared on the edge
of the frame it happened again a wall is
being built here in case you haven't
noticed abstraction a abstraction b s
expression if one doesn't have infinite
scroll it is necessary to invent it Jack
carak hacked his typewriter to accept
rols of paper instead of sheets peace
Pilgrim retired to a life of endless
walking and network information systems
are engineered to update themselves
without turning off schools are starting
to teach cursive handwriting again this
poem's text is represented by a
standardized possibility space limited
to exactly 1,1
14,112 characters or code points this is
the exact opposite of cursive it is for
this reason that all punctuation marks
are traffic signals my commute is very
pleasant here there is enough time to
play with my
tamachi okay so I have to cut it because
we're out of time but that's a bit of
10-minute painting and this was Radical
digital painting thank
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