History, Philosophy & Culture of Nuclear Science through my artistic lenses, under artistic licence. Authority defused, confused. Scientifiction. Humor mitigates tragedy.
The internet as art medium. Critical Hypermedia ... link or die.
Review — Dr. Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology
[Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, A Leonardo Book: 2002]
http://nukes.org
Searching the Semiosphere for information about the effects of ionizing radiation on bodies. Collecting stories about the biological effects of radiation from across the cultural spectrum.
http://nukes.org/MAp/museum.html
The medium is the message! Would a truly alien intelligence be comprehensible? What does space itself have to tell us? How commensurable/compatible is our rationality, universally?
http://nukes.org/alien/alien.html
Space is sexy. Or is it? (“Space is Death”). Why do we love space? Would it be fun to leave the earth behind? Given our limited means, is nuclear propulsion a good idea?
http://nukes.org/nukerocket.html
My paean to humanism over technocracy. Science and technology are not neutral.
http://nukes.org/AsIf/index.html | outer spaces
Plays on the mysterious intelligence behind the surfaces of machines and personality tests, the gap between what things are and how they appear to us. Yes, Ontology is unknowable (Kant's "things in themselves").
http://nukes.org/~s2/games/shockwave/AlienPersonalityTest/APT_2000_too.htm
My inner truth revealed (as an agglomeration of popular culture tropes). Yes, I'm a social construct.
CAUTION: This will reset the color depth on your monitor!
http://nukes.org/~s2/games/shockwave/realMe/1TheRealMe.dcr
"All our separate fictions add up to a joint reality" -H.D. Thoreau
Play on binary opposition. Really, replacing rationalist/idealist categories with social constructivist concepts.
Through the action of the user, connectedness replaces absolutes. Everything's fine once we discard the notion of "truth" ... and you can never get back to it once you start investigating it. Situational, embodied knowing v. abstract mathematic logic.
Review — Anne Burdick, "Looking at Writing: Graphic Design Found Mutating, Breeding on Not-Too-Distant Planet," in The Mutant Design Issue: But Is It Graphic Design? (Louise Sandhaus, ed.) AIGA Journal of Graphic Design: 1998 Vol. 16, No. 2
http://nukes.org/~s2/truths/
Pre-Digital activity.
dog | http://nukes.org/~s2/drawing/cato_mod01.jpg
Together We Can Defeat Capitalism. Or can we? Guerrilla action on the open market.
STOP BUSH | http://www.twcdc.com/programs/stop_bush/stop_bush.htm
http://www.twcdc.com | bios
Society as art medium.
Bringing It To You!
(see minute 6:15 and 7:58) | webpage |
direct downloads:
18 Mb ||
3 Mb
http://www.rtmark.com
Genetic interrogation; political agitation.
Installations and performances at San Francisco Arts Commission and Artists' Television Access
Hexterminators CTheory interview | http://www.prabapilar.com/pages/media/ctheory.html
Monica Praba Pilar | http://www.prabapilar.com
Finalist, International Browser Day, 2002
Aesthetic play, with v.j/ d.j.,
designer, Jon Santos (who also uses it in live performance).
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/stocasticSound.html
Ontology and Epistemology of virtual objects discovered through Design practices.
What are they? How can we know them? How can we talk about them? How can we work with them?
Co-taught with David Karam of Post Tool Design.
PROGRAM: MFA Program in Design @ CCA
http://nukes.org/do
History, Technology, Philosophy, Society and Art ... how else can we hope to understand The Digital?
Co-taught with Andy Cox of TWCDC.
PROGRAM: MFA Program in Fine Arts @ CCA
http://nukes.org/thedigital
Links | http://nukes.org/thedigital/links.html
Straightening out crooked thoughts and bad writing.
PROGRAM: MFA Program in Design @ CCA
Why not learn math through making, using the analytic-logical apparatus of digital media?
Co-taught with Barney Haynes, Chair.
PROGRAM: Film/Video/Performance [ a.k.a. Media Studies ] @ CCA
http://nukes.org/math
Practice needs theory. Listed as: Art & Theory in Technology
PROGRAM: Conceptual / Information Arts Program @ SFSU
http://nukes.org/sfsu/flash/index.html
Half seminar on theories of interactivity, half practicum.
PROGRAM: Stanford University Digital Arts Center
http://nukes.org/f5a4a/index.html
Design tools for this millennium. More practice, less theory (than artists get).
PROGRAM: Graphic Design Program, Design + Media concentration @ CCA
http://nukes.org/ads4/s03 | all classes
Volunteering to participate in dialogues about culminating projects.
If it doesn't resist the status quo, it ain't art. Social Justice is the best medium.
Co-taught with Max Kelly, MFA candidate.
PROGRAM: Teaching as Graduate Student @ SFSU
http://nukes.org/SAT
Staff Research Assistant, 1990 -93
Teaching and developing curricula for graduate level courses and workshops on the topics of ionizing radiation and water quality, for K-12 teachers.
Accrediting institutions: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, University of West Virginia.
Researching and writing for K-12 curricula. Representing SWOOPE on state and federal education reform committees and at conferences and trade fairs.
SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PROJECT: Planning, writing, illustrating, and creating graphic displays of information for a proposed Ionizing Radiation Resource Book: a comic-book approach to teaching students, K-12, the fundamentals of radiation and radioactivity.
SWOOPE offshoot | http://efmr.enviroweb.org/files
I made it to Carnegie Hall! The most complex work I've ever done. Now I know that I think in Objects!
Currently under Non-Disclosure Agreement.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
(click on "Try it Out!")
LeapStart™ Learning Table | http://www.leapfrog.com/flash/rorange/index_learntable.html
LittleTouch™ LeapPad® Learning System | ... /rorange/index_ltleappad.html
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
Medium in the service of Messages. Design: Anne Burdick; DataBase: Ewan Branda; Editor: Joe Tabbi.
Cutting edge www programming for online journal. The sum of my www skills.
TOOL: JavaScript, CSS & HTML; XML & XSLt
http://www.electronicbookreview.com
Flash programming based on Photoshop mock-ups. I provide all transitions and interactivity.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://www.cwatre.com
Children's learning toys website.
TOOL: HTML, CSS & JavaScript
http://www.sagekids.com
Sometimes I do design (and everything else, too).
Things have been changed, but the basic site is remains the same.
Faculty Diversity Web @ UCLA | http://faculty.diversity.ucla.edu
Diversity Web @ UCLA | http://diversity.ucla.edu
David Karam is my guru!
Reinventing the old arcade game for Nokia cellphones. I made the Qix, itself.
Available on recent N0kia cellphones.
TOOL: JAVA
[ local demo only ]
"HIV Prevention in San Francisco"
I programmed the map of services in San Francisco.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash; XML
http://sfhiv.org/services.html
Industrial Designers' website.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://www.whipsawinc.com
TOOL: HTML, CSS & JavaScript; XML & XSLt; Macromedia Flash
[ all defunct ]
Designer, Geoff Kaplan, needs help with www implementation.
Flash for cellphones demo with MOTO.
gwg | http://www.generalworkinggroup.com
dewey ambrosino | http://deweya.com
TOOL: Macromedia Flash, XML
[ Non-Disclosure Agreement ]
Lead Designer, Special Projects. I got caught in the dot.com bubble and found myself working in a newsroom environment.
I worked in a talented stable of designers, including Eric Rodenbeck.
[ defunct ]
Spinning wheel simulation for gallery installations and lecture demonstrations, made with Director.
My first paid programming.
George Legrady Studio | http://www.georgelegrady.com
The Offices of Anne Burdick | http://www.burdickoffices.com
Kelly Macy Creative | http://www.kellymacy.com
gwg | http://www.generalworkinggroup.com
Jeff Fassnacht Design | http://www.jefffassnacht.com
SÚPERSTOVÉ! | http://www.superstove.com
http://www.decorational.org
Mende Design | http://www.mendedesign.com
Kontour Design | http://www.kontour.com
Stamen Design | http://stamen.com
1999. Generated sounds vary in arithmetic progression.
Demonstrates: an alien interface; an irrational rationality.
TOOL: Macromedia Director
http://nukes.org/~s2/games/shockwave/AlienPersonalityTest/APT_2000_too.htm
2002. Generated sounds vary in arithmetic progression.
the basic mechanism | fader_v2
very raw | fader_v7.7
first design |
fader_v8.42
second design | fader_v8.912
third design | fader_v11.51
magic design | magic13
no graphical user interface | construct0
TOOL: Macromedia Flash 5
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/stocasticSound.html
2003. Generated sounds vary in geometric progression: 2 raised to the 1/N power, where N is the number of steps in the octave.
Demonstrates: the principle of equal temperaments.
TOOL: MAX/MSP
downloadable .zip file | http://nukes.org/math/demos/equalTempers/
2004. Major and Minor modes used randomly; sounds generated with Equal Temperaments.
Demonstrates: random vector drawings techniques.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash MX
pre-sound | http://nukes.org/flash/fun/intercalate.swf
with sound | http://nukes.org/flash/fun/intercalate.SOUND.swf
more bass | http://nukes.org/flash/fun/intercalate.SOUND.bass.swf
2004. An instrument I can play; sounds generated with Equal Temperaments.
Demonstrates: chords, arbitrary melody construction.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash MX
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/circleOfFifths12.3.swf
Michael Tilson Thomas music theory demos with Rolling Orange?
Digital Objects have properties and methods of changing those properties. These experiments investigate the built-in visual properties.
Analytic tools, some more playful than others.
Dynamically drawn and manipulated letter forms. My first Object Oriented Programming.
TOOL: Macromedia Director
http://nukes.org/~s2/games/shockwave/vertext/vertext13.htm
Movie Clip Properties | ads4/s03/flash/properties/properties.html
Time based property control |
ads4/s03/flash/onclipevent/index.htm
Color Object Investigator | flash/fun/colorObject_Investigator.swf
Mouse Movement | flash/fun/mousemove.swf
Mouse Energy | flash/fun/mmove_energy.swf
Mouse History | flash/fun/mouse_history.swf
Potential v. Actual Mouse Movement | flash/fun/mm.draw.rhizome.03.5.clrs.swf
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
[ see Investigation above ]
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/stocasticSound.html
Investigating dynamic drawing techniques
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/polygon0.22.swf
Reinventing the old arcade game for Nokia cellphones.
TOOL: JAVA
[ local demo only ]
This is what I do in my free time; obsessive compulsive behavior?
Play at the edge of legibility, what Richard Lanham distinguishes as "looking at" vs "looking through" [The Electronic Word].
At what point do letters become explicit form (well, for designers, from the start).
TOOL: JavaScript, CSS, HTML
http://nukes.org/js/monkeyTyperwriter.html
A tangent taken, an investigation begun in the service of commerce.
I can hardly begin to explain the import of this example; it's all under the hood.
It demonstrates a method of unifying the command structure for property changes.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
[ local demo only ]
Oddly, one of my most linked-to pieces, usually by Statistics departments
TOOL: Animated GIF
http://nukes.org/~s2/napoleon/march.html
Built my own picture browser because I had so many photos.
(small pictures available only!)
TOOL: Macromedia Flash, XML; digital camera
http://nukes.org/galapagos
Flash/HTML documentation of installation at SFMOMA
TOOL: Macromedia Flash, HTML, CSS; digital camera
http://nukes.org/posttool
my first investigation of Flash color properties.
TOOL: Macromedia Flash
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/whitenoisespacejunk.swf
http://nukes.org/flash/fun/alphanumericspacejunk.swf
MA, 1999. Special Major; concentration: Critical Hypermedia
Self-created interdisciplinary course of study. Fullfilling my desire to become digital.
Conceptual and Information Arts: Dr. Steve Wilson.
InterArts Center: Jesse Drew.
Humanities: Arthur Chandler.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts
BA, 1988. The Great Books of the Western World. No lectures, no tests, just reading and discussion or original texts (in translation). Math from Euclid to Einstein; Science from Aristotle to Quantum mechanics.
The Reading List | http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302
Philosophy of Science (2)
Philosophy of Math
Science Technology & Society
Philosophies of Education
Teachers' Institute, 1988:
Instructional Strategies
Field Experience in Teaching
Human Development / Educational Psychology
