Because a line has been crossed, technology/software/code is in and of the world and there's no getting out of it. Some architects can look at a building and tell you which version of autodesk was used to create it. The world is defined by our visualisations of it.



What's all this new aesthetic stuff anyway?

It's been there for a while now, bar codes have been around for years, but we can expect to see more of it. The testing and slow introduction of computer driven cars will most likely see special markings on roads & signs giving the cars instructions. All throughout shops, malls, streets and cities markings for machines are appearing.

The first part of NA I've been paying attention to has been the examples of this spilling out, the bits of the city not meant for us. The second part of NA I paid attention to was what happened when artists began to deconstruct and respond to that encroachment, how can designing for robots influence our own design?


Links
http://notepad.benfinoradin.info/2012/08/28/take-a-picture/
http://www.itwillneverbethesame.com/
http://www.openthiswindow.com/
http://booktwo.org/notebook/sxaesthetic/
http://www.byobworldwide.com/about
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/
http://revdancatt.com/2012/04/07/why-the-new-aesthetic-isnt-about-8bit-retro-the-robot-readable-world-computer-vision-and-pirates/
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/01/14/machine-pareidolia-hello-little-fella-meets-facetracker/
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jul/31/universal-texture/

New Ideas
http://revdancatt.com/2012/03/31/the-pxl-effect-with-javascript-and-canvas-and-maths/

Old News
https://click.wetfish.net
http://glitch.wetfish.net

More Pictures :D