[The Interrotron / illustration: Steve Hardie]

Recently noted:

• Greg Borenstein outlines his plans for a collaborative drawing machine that finds inspiration in early cabinet and table top versions of Space Invaders, Albrecht Dürer's etching Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Woman and Errol Morris' Interrotron "interview device" (pictured above).
• Although I buried a link to it within my recent post on chess machines, I want to categorically state that Wilfried Hou Je Bek's short essay on Marcel Duchamp and chess is an inspired read - the text is a crash course on the evolution of the game across the 20th century.
• Miguel Isaza recently tracked down and contextualized an impressive body of content focused on visionary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch. If nothing else, be sure to check out the helicopter-centric introduction to the post on Apocalypse Now.

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