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Download old editions of LIFE magazines. Contains thousands of photographs and texts that you as a promising aspiring collage-artist can recycle. 

Great blog with enlightening commentaries on iconic photos of yesterday and today. 

Elaborate biography of one of the founders of Dada.
I especially like both the form and content of those magazines, which show a great -be it probably intuitive- awareness of the mediumspecificity of printed text and images. 

notational:

Custom software is changing typography, photography, and composition and is the foundation for new categories of design practice that includes design for networked media (web browsers, mobile phones, tablets) and interactive installations. Most importantly, designers writing software are pushing design thinking into new areas. To cut to the core of the matter, we asked a group of exceptional designers two deceptively simple questions:

1. Why do you write your own software rather than only use existing software tools?

2. How does writing your own software affect your design process and also the visual qualities of the final work?

(via forvillelser)

Our everyday life is more and more captured and stored as digital data. The promise says that an extensive collection of data can be translated into objective information, whereas the translation of data depends on the subjective selection of algorithms and devices.

The digital Rube Goldberg Processor articulates this subjectivity of data by transforming a flickr image in an endless cycle of interconnected computers and algorithms.

Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web.

This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. While initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool and its underlying logic may be applied to any publisher or brand interested in understanding how its messages are shared.

Cascade was developed by R&D using open source tools including Processing and MongoDB.

Interesting talk about the role of algorithms -beyond human control - shape our (economic) world. 

This installation was presented in May 2011 at TramZwart (KASK), Ghent, Belgium. 

Built with Processing (visuals) and Pure Data (sound processing), projected on painted wood. 

The connections between the randomly moving dots depend on the sounds made by the visitor, thereby forming unpredictable and ever-changing structures. Furthermore, real life sound input gets translated in digital sounds (beeps and buzzes) that in turn form the input for the computer. This forms a slowly dying feedback loop, making the structures formed by the lines somehow organic and “living”. The visitor is made complicit in the universal human resistance against the second law of thermodynamics - creating structures in entropic realities.