Luke Noel

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the internet is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

What if technology was created by people who love us? A student report from Melanie Hoff’s Digital Love Languages course. Folder poetry, website gifts, and consensual hacking were some of the classes taught during the course at the School for Poetic Computation

Most of us walk with the internet every day, through the internet computer in our pockets. We know how to use it to listen to music louder than our surroundings, get traffic updates and navigational advice, and keep up with the latest news from around the world. But if you find yourself craving a more balanced experience, the field computer can hel... See more

Collections

• Human Figure in Contemporary Art


• Encyclopedia Mythica


• Obscure Islands


• Pattern Language Index


• Future Foodscapes Compendium

Lately, I’ve been less interested in these web-discovery projects. Maybe we don’t need more libraries but more people who go to libraries—or zine fairs, independent bookstores, conventions, etc. In other words, maybe we need fewer websites randomly taking you to another website but more people seeking what inspires them. Spencer Chang and I wrote a... See more

If you had to give a rough overview of what you cover, what would it say?

FINE. Roughly, I’d say something along the lines of ‘digital arts, online culture, webdesign and creativity, philosophy, economics, sex, art, death, drugs, music, animation, literary fiction, comedy, nihilism, advertising, marketing, pornography, rights, AI, identity, PR, and... See more

»I look at the net as a neighborhood. I want to live in a neighborhood with funky houses, neighbors who greet me on the street and have something to say. Not amidst office sky-disgracers, plastered with useless billboards and littered with forgotten glossy flyers. I want my house to have a warm glow, like people really live there. I have given my o... See more

“By wisdom a house is built,

and by understanding it is established;

by knowledge the rooms are filled

with all precious and pleasant riches.”

— Proverbs 24:3–4