User:Laurier Rochon
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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 Some time ago I went to technical school and learned a plethora of outdated skills - it was fun.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.
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.
- Users' text medley
- Armin Medosch > Not Just Another Wireless Utopia
- David Lyon > Surveillant sorting in the city
- 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
- Rough recorder PART 1
- WHILE the FOR three times, please
- 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
Ephemera
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.