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Today I started furnishing six new bulletin board systems for KUNST KAMP, based on Omnium, the KAMP’s didactic BBS. (Furnishing because the nice folk at Omnium did the real lifting). While not perfect, Omnium includes many of the facilities that were ardently desired by the people on the old sevcom Twister system. While it is [...]

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This was going to be a music class but synthesis takes a while to explain, especially when you disagree with a large amount of what is written on the subject. E.g. the thing that defines good ’subtractive’ synthesisers is the additive (wave shaping) effects of their circuitry. Which makes most subtractive tutorials ‘well meaning’ in [...]

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What is a museum? A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value (wordnet.princeton.edu)
Are museums useful and necessary? Yes, they store significant examples of production and culture that are needed for accurate history and as material for further research & creativity. Bad recall can sometimes inspire new work (e.g. current [...]

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Antithesis3D regret that we will no longer be offering our real time 3D software on which you have just spent a tidy sum. This page provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions about these changes.
Q: You Bastards!
A: All the team at Antithesis were in fact born to married parents except Jimbo the CEO.
Q: You mean yet [...]

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In 1994, (it might have been 1993 it’s hard to remember…) Nintendo Magazine ran a spread on a forthcoming game. There was a bit of 3D and a few screen shots and some quotes for the team that was working on the title. 14 years later I am still struggling with the same game. That [...]

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Dear one man and his dog. I apologise for this delay in sequential rubbish.
Rubbish has had to wait while useful things are done.

Term starts soon, and I am coordinating a wide swarth of video and sound subjects at KUNST KAMP. This means appearing to be sensible, running spreadsheets, typing up memos and carrying impressive amounts [...]

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It’s 1AM and these thoughts have to go somewhere before I forget.
Item: I am hearing about mechanisms for storage which is all very good, but what we need is a mechanism for retrieval. We already have people busy storing. Squirrels. Nuts. Buy all the hard drives you want guys – that’s half the problem. Something [...]

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People are being annoyed by my flippant nature. I apologise. I will now adopt a very serious look.
Our topic for this sermon is – Forging a New Sophisticated Aesthetic in Time Based Art.
Witness: that in the past the quality of digital media was constrained by the infancy of the process. It was understandable that practitioners [...]

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