Golan Levin has done a concert by carefully ringing the audience’s cell phones. He’s telling us about abstracting from communication processes. For example, he has a web site that lets you create your own alphabet; it looks like you enter a scrawl and it uses evolutionary algorithms to generate the letters.

He also is the one who wrote a program that tests the online popularity of numbers 0-1,000,000. It’s a beautifully designed, interactive site.

He shows an astounding app he wrote that turns your quick scribbles into audible clouds of swirling threads. Impossible to describe but hypnotic.

In another installation, as you speak shapes representing them float out of your shadow. For all its weirdness, it seems exactly right.

Wonderful stuff. His site is www.flong.com.

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