Glasswing Butterflies, Alien “Technosignatures”, and Why Computers Should Make More Noise

I serve up reading material in this week’s “Linkfest”

“Last Night” by Wanda Koop, 2021

Another week has begun!

Let’s start it off right — by kicking back, taking a break, feeding your brain.

You’ll have plenty of time to work later! After you’ve perused this reading material I curated, just for you ….

1) 🖌 ️Wanda Koop’s gorgeous art of nature and technology

For 40 years, the Canadian artist Wanda Koop has created “large-scale surrealistic landscapes that investigate the rapid urbanization of the natural world,” as Artsy writes.

I’d never heard of Koop before, but now I really want to see her stuff up close. In this online gallery of her work, I love how she blends together everything from barcodes to cityscapes. She paints what look like lines of dripping paint, except rendered as quantized bars, as if the nature of paint itself were digital.

“In Absentia (Tar Black — Deep Blue)”, “Barcode Face”, and “Green Zone (Interference Orange)” by Wanda Koop

2) 😀 The Library of Congress classifies emoji as “folklore”