User:Laurier Rochon

About

As a boy growing up in the mentally repressing trenches of sprawling Canadian suburbia, I spent most of my time playing outside. Later,I went to technical school and learned a plethora of outdated skills - I had long hair and surely lost any moral agency, already. I survived and moved on to art school, this time using conspicuously vague arguments to justify my work. Currently in Rotterdam, I am hoping to simultaneously learn new binary tricks and restore my faith in humanity.

Part of / working on

• This is a repository of art/cultural/personal work, collabs with other artists and clients. Includes shows/conferences as well as other things I enjoy.

• I have been board director/web guru at this company since 2005. <3 industry.

• Co-founded CEASE, a non-profit in Montreal, which has a blog, ROBOT LIBRE!.

• I am usually very doubtful of things, clean at all times and keep an eye out for apartment leaks in Montreal.

Reading notes

I need to take notes on things I read, otherwise my mind forgets. And then it's like I never read it at all.

• Michel de Certeau > The practice of everyday life
• Jan Fernback > The individual within...
• Malcolm Gladwell > Ramesh Srinivasan > re: Small change & comments, PART 2
• Malcolm Gladwell > re: Small change & comments, PART 1
• Pierre Bourdieu > The field of cultural production
• Alexander Galloway > Introduction
• Julian Dibbell > A Rape in Cyberspace
• Don Gentner and Jokob Nielson > The Anti-Mac Interface
• Jef Raskin > Down with GUIs

Prototyping

• Using a pipeline to create a generative audio file
• Clapping music exercise
• Prototype 1 : Funeral hymn
• Clapping music with Arduino + LED screen + pushbutton - PART 1

Build, Break, Broadcast

• How to nicely ask your friends to lend you their Wonder Precise Antique lawn mower