Information Evil? - Extending the Panopticon


2009-03-27 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Information Evil Extending the Panopticon
Foucault argues that the bureaucratic systems that regulate society extend the Panopticon of subtle social control deep into the inner most reaches of our psyche. (Foucault, 1975)   The basis for this need to control and organise society finds its roots in the concepts of ownership and poss...

World Brain


2008-10-23 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
World Brain - Final Year Project The aim of this project is to create a method allowing websites to exchange user data between one another both upon the direct request of the user and as background processes Current legislation regarding sharing of IP address information states that one cannot...

IMAP mail access Plymouth University email account


2007-07-11 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
IMAP mail access Plymouth University email account
No one at Plymouth seems to publish the fact that you can actually access your @plymouth.ac.uk account through IMAP (Thunderbird or Outlook) and you wont have to use their awful web interface again.. and its better than pop3 - updated courtesy of Jim@Plymouth (05/08/2011) Username is your full...

Eden Game BBC Mention


2007-05-04 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Our game for the Eden Project has been posted on the Eden site as well as getting a mention on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6629765.stm...

Used – Enforcing Web 2 Synergy


2007-04-23 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Used – Enforcing Web 2 Project URL http://www.sinrize.com Key concepts are enforced user participation and generative art Identity The site automatically identifies the user’s IP address and the time that the user visits the site. This becomes their identity. They become numerically ident...

Used - Making Finite


2007-03-23 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Used - Making Finite Degradation Date stamp The concept behind this is to involuntarily involve the user in the art work. Their presence - the fact that they view the work changes it - it evolves with every progressive interaction gradually changing it from the original image into one that...

Dematerialisation of the art object


2007-01-29 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Dematerialisation of the art object
Dematerialisation of the art object Introduction The dematerialisation of the art object is a trend that has transcended artistic movements and ideologies and progressed from the redirection of focus from the object to the idea, to modern pieces that truly no longer exist in the physical realm....

Organism Final version


2006-11-05 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
have just presented to mr speed.. apparently we are too boring and corporate to achieve marks for whacky creativity.. but then the marking was rather bizarre.. the best project by far (by Mayo) didn't seem to impress at all. Not entirely convinced by the assessment criteria....

flash is still havng some issues


2006-10-25 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
have been drawing random movie clip instances all over the place an making pretty shapes.. have stuck a few on here to peruse http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020831/mathtrek.asp http://www.yu4you.com/items/en/photo/item_2118.html...

flash just cant handle it


2006-10-15 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
Having a few problems with a growing curve as flash cant handle the amount of vectors on the screen.. are trying to use some static curves instead that will c hange when the collide with one another.. only problem is that once a movie clip has been created in flash its very hard to alter the formula...

Organism Project - stage one


2006-10-08 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
ideas for this week are to make a type of flower using sine/cosine curves using a formula we found online. Plant life forms will develop and interact with one another swapping internal numbers and developing.. chris will simply love it.. im sure of this...

IDAT205 - Project Design


2006-10-03 Digg! icurtain Delcious icurtain
our in house specialists can provide extensive information Group Members Alan Bourne - Graphics/CSS/ASP/FLASH/HTML Michael Lang - PHP/Photography/SEO/CSS James Baugh - Tea Boy/FLASH Business name ideas. creativeindustries industrialcreative creativeindustrial creativelab crea...