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Scott Richmond
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Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
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CCT has its banner back! (After a very long and very bureaucratic process.) The banner is featured prominently in our logo. A banner on a Coach House on a banner on a Coach House.

Coach House-banner-ception.

#cultureandtechnology #mcluhan
McLuhan's Coach House, housing the Centre for Culture and Technology. A brand new banner says "Centre for Culture and Technology" above a line drawing of the Coach House, prominently featuring a banner. The photograph is taken from the same perspective as the line drawing, so it appears as a miniature diagram of the photo.
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Today’s absolute queen from the archive, MR
A scan from the John McCarthy archive at Stanford’s University archive that reads: MR: A gay, exuberant girl who made the “SEXY COMPUTER” program quoted above. Only half seriously she declared her intention of making the first operational French sentence generator. In a sense she did—but with cavalier disregard for the Academy’s rules of spelling and grammar!
March 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Saw this and thought of you immediately, @miriamposner.com
“man is born free and everywhere he is in supply chains” —tweet by doug tee/@dougtee
February 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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#genuary #genuary10 #ludus: The only number allowed in code is tau (twice pi). Main thought: is it cheating to derive other numbers from tau? Also: playing with organic shapes, using a technique one of my students developed in our Computer Class summer institute.

90s vibes, I think.
Six abstract, organic-ish fuchsia shapes (stars, fireworks, dandelion seeds, jellyfish?) on a purple field.
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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#genuary #genuary9 #ludus: A textile design for public transit seating.
An abstract checkerboard pattern. Squares with inscribed circles on top, all described by diagonal lines. The circles' lines are at right angles to the squares'. There are two colourways: navy circles on fuchsia squares, or aqua circles on maroon squares. The background for everything is olive.
January 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#genuary #genuary8 #ludus: ONE MILLION SOMETHINGS.

Today's low-effort, because it's a busy day and because I needed something I know would be good enough the first run, because Ludus is oh so very slow.

web.ludus.dev?code=backgro...
1,000,000 fuchsia line segments on a maroon background, all at right angles. It's a cloud, it's a neuronal structure, it's fungus? It's abstract, formless, and pretty enough.
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#genuary #genuary6: A landscape with only primitive shapes.

Main thought: maybe I can make aerial perspective with turtle graphics?

web.ludus.dev?code=let+gap...
An abstract landscape that resembles many lines of mountains receding into aerial depth, fading from nearly grey in the far background to saturated dark purple in the foreground. The mountains are formed with thin lines of varying lengths placed next to one another.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#genuary #genuary5: isometric art (no vanishing points).

Main thoughts: deleting random features worked great with the first cubes, let's try deleting faces this time.

web.ludus.dev?code=backgro...
A field of dark blue cubes on a bright pink background, with shading indicated by parallel lines. Cube faces are randomly there, or not.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#genuary #genuary4: black on black.

Main thoughts: I'm not goth enough for this. Also, working with James Clayson's Visual Modeling with Logo from 1988, so I used his spirograph techniques.

web.ludus.dev?code=fn+ngon...
A 7-pointed, very dense spirograph star, made from thin black lines on a very dark grey background. It is inscribed in a faint heptagon, which is itself made up of several thin lines. The star's lines extend beyond the heptagon to make sort of floral lobes. It is cropped so that the star's centre is in the top right quadrant of the image.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#genuary #genuary3: exactly 42 lines of code.

Main thoughts: Sol Lewitt + Manfred Mohr.

web.ludus.dev?code=fn+draw...
A 7x6 grid of partially drawn cubes. Each cube has each edge randomly drawn, or not. A light gray background with black lines. It resembles Sol Lewitt and Manfred Mohr's work.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#genuary #genuary2: Layers upon layers.

Main thoughts: let's fuck up some moire patterns. Also, the cover of Jameson's Political Unconscious.

web.ludus.dev?code=fn+rand...
An abstract graphical drawing in Ludus, with many squares of varying colours of red, fanned out like playing cards, on a light grey background. The squares themselves are made up of many parallel lines.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#genuary #genuary1: Horizontal and vertical lines only.

Main thoughts: diagonals with only right angles; negative space.

web.ludus.dev?code=let+lin...
Abstract, midcentury feeling image of many horizontal and vertical pink line segments on a purple background. They sketch, in negative, a four-pointed star.
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Really, Microsoft? In the age of Copilot, you've memory-holed Clippy this hard?
Text in MS Word, showing it knows the names Siri and Alexa, but not Clippy.
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM