Comics Critiquing Technology

These single-frame comics summarize my thoughts on the 7 weekly themes from Allison Burtch's Critical Theory class at The School For Poetic Computation. The drawings were created on paper and scanned.  The backgrounds were generatively produced using Processing.

Topic: Decentralization and its Discontents

Topic: Decentralization and its Discontents

Topic: Internet of Things

Topic: Internet of Things

Topic: What was the vision? (computers and education)

Topic: What was the vision? (computers and education)

Topic: Political Change and Riots

Topic: Political Change and Riots

Topic: Messaging and Language

Topic: Messaging and Language

Topic: Utopias and Sci Fi

Topic: Utopias and Sci Fi

Topic: Privacy and Surveillance

Topic: Privacy and Surveillance

My learning tool for 8-bit binary numbers

Created this today in @ sfpc_school:

Each part of the stomach represents one of the 8 binary positions.  Each place starts as a 0.  Start with a number and follow the instructions to find out the binary value.

Each part of the stomach represents one of the 8 binary positions.  Each place starts as a 0.  Start with a number and follow the instructions to find out the binary value.

As you follow the path of digestion you determine where the ONES fall and place food in each stomach cavity.  Here is 175 in binary: 10101111.

As you follow the path of digestion you determine where the ONES fall and place food in each stomach cavity.  Here is 175 in binary: 10101111.