Usefulness of Uselessness
summary
Argument: making a deliberately useless art project unlocks exploration and serendipity. Example builds: an augmented reality book that ships and wins commissions, a gallery Leap Motion installation with ~1,000,000 particle erasures and 30 text entries that suffers from deadline compromises, and a quick glitch booth coded in 10–15 hours that spawns ~90 tweeted selfies. Tools named: JavaScript, Paper.js/Processing templates, Leap Motion, Twitter API, even low‑tech Sharpies used with 60 engineers for a group drawing exercise.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 6:07Chuck Close
- 7:57The adjacent possible
- 9:10Im not an artist
- 9:45Between Page and Screen
- 13:46Glitch Booth
- 18:30Sol LeWitt
