Shai rapoportOOO and New MaterialismThe OOO lecture sent me thinking of how does performance art deal with this concept especially with the live arts such as dance. Drawing…3 min read·Mar 8, 2021----
Shai rapoportComputational Art and WitnessingFor this weeks blog I thought it would be best to post the conversation I had with George Kuhn a friend that studies with me, right after…5 min read·Mar 2, 2021----
Shai rapoportWorlding and VRIn this story I will use several art works in order to discuss several issues and thought I had during the seminar with Rachel Falconer.5 min read·Feb 10, 2021----
Shai rapoportTouch(é)?Starting from the turn of the century to the current COVID pandemic, a very important change in the epistemological perception of…3 min read·Feb 7, 2021----
Shai rapoportDrowning In TechAs I am still struggling to put my finger on what is it in Computational Arts that invokes such an anxious feeling inside me, I went back…3 min read·Jan 24, 2021----
Shai rapoportPatches, Seams and Material SemioticsHere are some thoughts following the reading of John Laws “Material Semiotics” and Kristina Lindstrom and Asa Stahl’s “Studies in Material…3 min read·Jan 17, 2021----
Shai rapoport“Excuse me, but where is your imagination?” (Michal Helfman)The work of Manu Luksch is situated in the present, reacting to it, decoding it as a mode of bringing back control into our lives after…2 min read·Nov 29, 2020----
Shai rapoportGlocal “if-then”sIn the process of thinking about the term Ecology- which constantly moved between being extremely banal to being confusingly complex- I…2 min read·Nov 27, 2020----
Shai rapoport“..the second difference between the algorithmic contingency and the contingency of laws of nature…I would like to suggest that in creating these sometimes unpredictable self-regulating systems and algorithms, we humans surrender to…3 min read·Nov 1, 2020----