Luke Noel

“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

»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

Collections

• Human Figure in Contemporary Art


• Encyclopedia Mythica


• Obscure Islands


• Pattern Language Index


• Future Foodscapes Compendium

• Record ordinary moments in themed journals.


• Keep a running list of all the moments you’ve been appreciated or the times you’ve been overwhelmed with gratitude for life, save these as emotional Tupperware for a tough day


• Cherish the history embedded in your unclosed browser tabs.


• Gather things you love in folk databases: spreadsheets, bulleted lists, a

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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

“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