For their (sic) was nothing new about networked mobile devices and the Web. To continue thinking of them as new media has itself become an anachronism. Rather, they are simply the media of our own modernity, network culture. Just as the first modernity destroyed the traces of the world that existed before industrialization, network culture destroys the old (postmodern) unconnected world. But we’ve gone past a point of no return: new media are the media of our time, with all of their goods and all of their bads. It’s still an ongoing process, but new media have nevertheless long since stopped occuping a discrete niche or a ghetto. They form our world. It’s on those terms we need to investigate them.

via varnelis.net

years by bartholomäus traubeck

mandala (a musical palindrome), by daniel starr-tambor

With more than 62 vigintillion individual notes, “Mandala” is the longest palindrome in existence. Composed using the first nine partials of the Natural Harmonic Series repeating at the accelerated tempos of our solar system, Mandala would continue without repetition for over 532.25 septendecillion years. In homage to “Art of the Fugue” by J.S. Bach, “Mandala” has been crafted to include the “musical signature” of it’s author: the stereo imaging is arranged to reflect the exact position of the solar system at the moment of his birth, from the perspective of the Sun as it faces the constellation Libra, so that each note chronicles his birthday on every planet.

cardboard installations in public spaces, by clemens behr

by polish designer, animator and musician odaibe. odaibe combined his many talents into a minimal but expressive piece, using motion capture and notations-like mark-making to reveal hidden rhythmic structures.

tight rotoscope and character animation by markus neidel