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 Later,I went to technical school and learned a plethora of outdated skills - I had long hair and surely lost any moral agency, already.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.
- 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
- Alexander Galloway > Introduction
Prototyping
- 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