Eric Lennartson pushes against the notion that computers are impartial truth telling machines with his oscilloscope piece, Alias 3. Eric intentionally programmed outside the computer’s ability,  so that much of what we  end up seeing and hearing isn’t what Eric coded and performed, but the aliased incomplete version of it.

Visual artist Emily Zeller is interested in the intersection between art and technology, mixing the old and the new, and joining high-and low-tech. For her mail art, she is creating a limited edition of 130 pen-plot drawings. For each drawing, a parameter is slightly changed so that the design shifts slightly, creating a collection of completely original prints that gradually drifts away from her initial design. Through the pairing, we see different translations from computer code to machine and the shifting, fuzzy, in-between spaces those translations reveal.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about Emily Zeller

• Learn more about Eric Lennartson

• See the trailer for Eric's Film

• Get Emily's Print

• See how an oscilloscope works

• Listen to Jerobeam Fenderson's album "Oscilloscope Music"

• Learn about Perlin Noise

• Learn about AxidDraw Penplotters

• Check out The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman