transcodex

[Are Flagan]

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> http://www.transcodex.net
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> distro of announcement
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rhizome/netartreview/nettime/syndicate/e-kunst/fw: please
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Transcodex is a project exploring the transcoding principle of computer
media. Transcoding refers broadly to the ability of numerically encoded data
objects to migrate and morph across traditional media divides, such as
image/sound/text. It equally references the digitization of culture and
society. This magical capacity is arguably the most radical, and perhaps
disconcerting, aspect of new media. The project currently consists of
several parts and will involve future phases.
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> binary/image/sound/text
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Brief and basic technical explanations of how computers work with numbers
and thereby converse across traditional (material) media divides via binary
encoding.
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> thematically compiled net.art and software works by
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Paul Tulipana and Sean Whalen
Barbara Lattanzi
Vuk Cosic
Peter Traub
Mark Daggett
Gonzalo Garcia-Perate
Cory Arcangel
Mark Napier
Lew Baldwin and Charlie Killian
Paul Andrews
Ralf Baecker
Gregory Chatonsky
BlueScreen
Pall Thayer
Jason Freeman
..//modukit+
Dyske Suematsu
Amy Alexander and Peter Traub
Daniel Young
SAS design and Radio Taxis
W. Bradford Paley
Chris Otto
Gicheol Lee
Helen Evans
Miguel Leal and Luis Sarmento
Pete Everett
Peter Luining
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> transcodex (v.0.7)
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A 9000-word, currently lightly illustrated, essay thoroughly exploring the
historical and cultural roots of transcoding. Providing an alternative, or
at least neglected, view of new media, it considers coding an extension of
early linguistic practices that evolved into advanced mathematical-logical
notation and later computation. The findings of the research have
implications for how transcoding is understood within the narrow context of
computation and also for how the underlying desire to perfect translation,
involving both notions of a unique parameter language and a flawless
understanding across tongues and cultures, has shaped the discourses of East
and West.  
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> re:codex
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The open space inviting new links and connections on the
transcoding/transcodex themes.