User:Laurier Rochon

Laurier Rochon I like networks, euphemisms, maps and CSS. Some time ago I went to technical school and learned a plethora of outdated skills - it was fun. 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.

Projects

• TIME OF OUR LIGHTS is a physical, yet metaphorical clock that scans live obituaries from the Web, displays the name of the deceased and uses a light display to embody those who have passed away. It is an homage to the deceased, a conceptual enthroning and a reminder of our own ephemeral, fragile condition.

Project page

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.

• Brian Holmes > Future Map
• John Palfrey & Urs Gasser > Born Digital
• Espen J. Aarseth > Cybertext - Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
• Vannevar Bush > As we may think
• Thierry Bardin > Bootstrapping
• Alan Kay & Adele Goldberg > Personal Dynamic Media
• Sherry Turkle > The second self > Personal computers with personal meanings
• Ted Nelson > Dream machines
• Jef Raskin > Down with GUIs
• Don Gentner and Jokob Nielson > The Anti-Mac Interface
• Julian Dibbell > A Rape in Cyberspace
• Malcolm Gladwell > Ramesh Srinivasan > re: Small change & comments, PART 2
• Malcolm Gladwell > re: Small change & comments, PART 1
• Michel de Certeau > The practice of everyday life
• Jan Fernback > The individual within...
• Pierre Bourdieu > The field of cultural production Part 2
• Pierre Bourdieu > The field of cultural production Part 1
• Alexander Galloway > Introduction

Prototyping

• BENT COLORS GALORE! : Clapping music with Arduino + real buttons + invented buttons + LED strip + chip driver
• Clapping music with Arduino + button
• Clapping music with Arduino + LED screen + pushbutton - PART 1
• Prototype 1 : Funeral hymn
• Clapping music exercise
• Using a pipeline to create a generative audio file

Build, break, broadcast

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

Ephemera

• Rotterdam Belhuis Bonanza

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.