Boulangerie: December 2023
Unbaked bits from the month!
The Boulangerie is a regular, unscheduled feature of Technocomplex, appearing once or twice a week. It is for half-baked, rising dough, the just-now-in-the-oven entries. After all boulangerie in French is bakery. Entries are always very short. To find out when new loaves have been set out, follow @mrdelong@mastodon.online or watch Substack Notes.
Boulangerie: Her hands? Her arms?
Apple’s iPhone decides what pose is appropriate, I guess. But sometimes they just all look so pretty! Happy engagement, Tessa.
December 29, 2023
Tessa Coates on Instagram: “I went wedding dress shopping and the fabric of reality crumbled. This is a real photo, not photoshopped, not a pano, not a Live Photo. If you can’t see the problem, please keep looking and then you won’t be able to unsee it. Full story in my highlights (THE MIRROR) Please enjoy this glitch in the matrix/photo that me nearly vomit in the street ❤️ 💒 Also, I’m engaged! 💍”
That is all.
Coates, Tessa. Instagram, November 4, 2023.
Boulangerie: Trans-Harmonium and “The Archive of Fragmented Time”
Got a bunch of clock-radios?
December 29, 2023
The Trans-Harmonium is a “DIY clock-radio synth” that the group will donate to a group that commits to extending “The Archive of Fragmented Time” project by “loaning out the instrument and expanding the archive.”
Hear the Trans-Harmonium here:
Collecting Fragments of Time: Submissions from Sound Scene, 2023. YouTube video, 2023.
Boulangerie: Wonderful woven photographs. Intelligence, artistic talent, time.
This sure beats AI images from the iPhone, like Tessa Coates’ wedding dress snapshot.
December 29, 2023
Remember Tessa’s wedding dress photo with the iPhone? Jason Chen has ideas about time, too, and he’s an authentic intelligence not a fake one.
“Rather than capture a single moment, Jason Chen weaves together photographs taken just seconds apart, creating disjointed portraits that convey movement and the passage of time. The Philadelphia-based artist often splices snapshots of the same setting and subject with slight differences in the tilt of the head, gesture, or gaze. Laced into a grid or hypnotizing circle like a photographic tapestry, the resulting images are uncanny and disorienting, nodding to fragmented identities and skewed perceptions of the self and others.”
The Colossal has lots of cool art.
Ebert, Grace. “Uncanny Woven Portraits by Jason Chen Splice Two Moments in Time.” Colossal, December 14, 2023. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/jason-chen-photoweaving/.