In the late 1970s, Hispanic was used to refer to people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South America, or other cultures of the Spanish diaspora. It was also used by Mexican Americans to encourage cultural assimilation into American society among all Hispanic/Latino peoples and move away from the…
Computational thinking, a recent development in CS education, focuses primarily on the concepts and processes of computing such as variables, loops, and conditionals. Some critics think CT is still too vague or too narrow in scope. …
Theodore Kim recently gave an interesting talk at SIGGRAPH 2021 about racial bias in computer graphics or CG. Kim asserts that basic scientific formulations have insidious biases built into them, which can be traced back to early film technology and techniques from the analog era. This includes Shirley Cards and…
Well, I know that I don’t know nothin’ about what I do. I know that it works. I don’t know how it works, because I know it ain’t supposed to, but it works. I don’t know what it is that I am doing — it works, and to me, that’s…
Deep Dream Generator is a free online application that just about anyone can use to create images using machine learning. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence in which computers are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms to analyze and draw inferences…
Tina Bell’s story is yet another in a string of many women, especially women of color, who’ve made significant contributions to the development of a genre only to be written out of the final account. Sister Rosetta, Betty Davis, Poly Styrene, Pauline Black.. the list is long.. — Scott Ledgerwood
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“In the case of craft, interpretations focus specifically on the way in which content takes form. With art, however, the relation of form and content varies constantly. Computing transforms this relation too: the same content (bits) may take many different forms quite easily, and it may do so after the…
It was easy to make something (online) and put it out in public. People want instant gratification.
In 2013, I covered Yung Jake in an Art21 series that looked at artists from around the globe who were inventing new uses for existing technologies, or fashioning new technologies to fit their…
I grew up in a Southern Baptist church and, as a kid, I yearned to join the youth choir. I wanted to be in the processional on their special night. Each member, in turn, stepped forward, paused, and moved forward diagonally to a new position where they repeated the action…
