Les eccentric engineers sont avant tout des artistes, mais ils sont aussi dotés du super-pouvoir des développeurs informatiques : la programmation. L’ancien étudiant en art Kyle McDonald mêle vidéo en temps réel et tweets postés par des internautes, quand Zach Gage programme un Space Invaders où chaque alien détruit est un fichier qui s’efface du disque dur.

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Today, while I was waking up, I came up with an idea on how to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. But before I tell you what the idea was, let me contextualize you.

Une page qui recenserait 500 livres d’informatique ou de programmation, voilà bien un rêve d’informaticien.

«This happened to coincide with a time in which I had painted myself out, so I welcomed this new experience. I was shown how to prepare a computer program and how to transfer it to an IBM punch card by machine. The alphanumeric characters we could ‘draw’ with were: the alphabet, ten numerals and eleven symbols, such as periods, dashes, slashes, etc….It took me some time to get used to this medium. What I intended to make did not always correspond to the program I thought I had punched in the card. I made many mistakes which the computer, in its logical way, would not print. The intricacies and possibilities seem endless and I have spent a great deal of time simply trying to master the mechanics of this particular technique.»
Frederick Hammersley - 1969

Research on artificial intelligence has taken major steps forward in recent years, especially
in terms of machine learning. This has led artists to probe the imaginations of neural networks to create strange new audiovisual works, while activists and journalists have used those same algorithms to organise and visualise stories that stem from social and new media. In his talk, Gene Kogan will examine this recent evolution and its progress from the perspective of a media artist and an independent researcher. He will speculate about the infusion of AI into our everyday devices, and their impacts on our interactions with technologies and with each other.

Si vous êtes un développeur web ou un intégrateur un peu tête en l'air, je vous recommande de mettre dans vos bookmarks le site Front-End Checklist. Il s'agit d'une liste d'éléments à vérifier sur vos pages HTML pour ne rien oublier le jour de la mise en prod.

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