Race as Technology

For the sake of decency, I call for a perversion of common standards or at least a productive distortion of such. I ask the reader to consider race as technology. This proposition moves race away from the biological and genetic systems that have historically dominated its definition toward questions of technological agency. Technological agency speaks to the ways by which external devices help us navigate the terrain in which we live.

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Using Sensor Inputs to Affect Virtual and Real Environments

Eolus One, Green Phosphor, and the Parsec voice controller use sensor technology to transmit data from real-world environments to virtual ones. This article focuses on the design principles these three projects apply at the experimental stage of cross-reality design.

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Digital Technologies and Generative Production: Art in the Age of Intelligent

This paper offers a discussion of the history and theory of digital technologies in the visual arts and media. Areas of analysis include the history of electronic and digital arts design and practice, the history and theory of vision and imaging technologies, and theories of the spectacle in relation to virtual environments.

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“Shut Up and Dance:” reflections on real-time synthesis in Machinima production

Machine cinema killed the video star. It is straight out of game culture that the next evolution of music video has arrived––user-generated, pop inspired, and “mod” all over. Unlike the music videos of the MTV generation that created an image for a song as a form of branded commercial output, the machinima music video weds customized in-game play to user-selected music.

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Pimp Notes on Autonomy

If one had to say it fast, the slave economy in America produced the American pimp. Pimping may be the second-oldest profession in the world, but it was in America first that the pimp became a black pop star.

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