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Watercolour data rendering tests February 20th 2013

Feb 20, 13 12:55 PM

Primary colour triad of Indian red, yellow ochre and cerulean blue admixtures on hot pressed, extra smooth 1401b watercolour paper.

Indian red to yellow ochre bottom row yellow ochre to cerulean blue

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Watercolour data rendering tests February 18th 2013

Feb 18, 13 8:45 AM

One of the things I want to do is output the data in different forms of media including both digital and analogue. There will be a series of watercolour renderings of different data where I’ll be converting numerical data to colour values.

This is the first test of that process using a primary colour triad of Indian red, yellow ochre and cerulean blue admixtures on hot pressed, extra smooth 1401b watercolour paper. Much of these early tests will focus on developing colour palettes structural ideas to follow.

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Hat Index February 17th 2013

Feb 17, 13 9:11 AM

Hat: no hat

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On death and data

Feb 16, 13 8:55 AM

I have talked to many people with incurable disease, they often develop quite astonishing levels of medical understanding, becoming more aware of developments in research than their consultants. There is a heroic obsessiveness at play here a feeling that some mastery over the disease can be enacted by a detailed knowledge of it; through its indexing fetish this project shares that compulsion. This is not merely hubristic, recent research has shown that patients who are more engaged with of their disease do better than those who aren’t. There is also the macabre thought that the project will outlive me, it’ll still be there online, possibly even still producing data, at least in terms of visitor numbers.

So we can posit, that the project also touches on our attitudes to death and disease in a wider sense, namely a desire to find ways, processes and forms to transcend the act of termination and come to an accord with our feelings about it.

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La mia Cura Salvatore Iaconesi

Feb 15, 13 9:54 AM

Recently I came across a project by Salvatore Iaconesi whose The Cure website has open sourced all the clinical data from his brain tumour with the aim increasing his chances of survival and contributing data to the international research community. It’s a magnificent project that has already had an impact on debates around the role of the patient and data in cancer treatment. I very much see blood and bones as connected to this vision in terms of putting the patient in control of their data and enabling wider uses of it. There are divergences of approach, my project is less resolutely about open-source politics, I don’t think it will contribute to a cure, although it may contribute understanding to the ecologies of treatment that patients, diseases and medics are entangled in. I also feel blood and bones is a more traditional (if I can use that word) aesthetic project concerned with the collision of the bureaucratic and the personal, the material and the informational, in a way that draws upon conceptual traditions in the arts and wider digital culture.

Please visit his great project:

http://www.artisopensource.net/cure/

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