Yes, it may not be directly relevant to this blog, but I’ve been reading a lot lately about generative art and Voronoi diagrams and felt overwhelmed by the maths, so it’s refreshing to see a different, non-technical approach.

• computer art and cybernetics
• computer art and time
• computer art and space
• computer art and output
• computer art and technocultures

Starting the following day is the two-day conference at the V&A on Decoding the Digital. Bonnie Mitchell, one of the speakers at the symposium, will also be talking in Brighton on 2nd February on Interactive Art Environments and Experimental Animation. There’s suddenly so much going on – it’s a shame it’s all down south. Or do you know of things away from the capital?

Here’s a link to Body Paint which is one of the items in the exhibition, and to onedotzero’s events website page, which lists all of the works.

Rhizome has a post about a self-deleting website:

Virtual data isn’t subject to decay like traditional media. Despite this, we can still lose personal data to disk failure, viruses, or accidental deletion. Unlike personal data however, data on the internet has a seemingly infinite shelf-life. Between search-engine caching, cloud-hosting, re-blogging, plagiarizing, and the way-back machine, the net collects and eternally stores vast amounts of information.

Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.

Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.

That’s certainly one way to look at erasure.