Art, Information Security, Elegance, Life
SITE UPDATE: My new Art-specific site is live at http://jackwhitsitt.com
Also, Note: For those of you here from the Symantec article, you can find “Art” versions of the images they use by clicking HERE
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Art and Information Security?
The American Heritage Dictionary has a couple of interesting definitions of elegance (neither of which are as pretentious as the common use of the word):
- Restraint and grace of style.
- Scientific exactness and precision.
When we talk about art, I tend to think the pieces that work “best” are the most elegant. They’re the ones where the artist has done no more or less than he or she needed to. The artist, in other words, has shown “restraint of grace and style”.
Information Security, on the other hand, depends on technology doing, as with the artist’s art, no more or less than it has to. Secure systems are built with “scientific exactness and precision”. Without the precision, loopholes are left for bad things to happen.I find this connection between the two fascinating.
Stuff I’ve Done or Work on:
“Art and Technology”
Washington City Paper Article on my Second Life Work
The Mosaic Creator I wrote in Python : TAMOGEN
Symantec Article on my Security Visualization Art
“Information Security”
My Enterprise Information Architecture Resume
Bait and Switch Honeypot (Open Source IDS Extension I wrote ages ago that got semi-popular)
Older Security Related Bits from Me Caught by the Web (as jofny)
“Video”
I have weird nightmares. This is a clip of a sock crawling across my floor that I made as a test for a longer sequence
Second Life Gallery Video: A video tour of the SintixErr Gallery for DC artists in Second Life (now defunct). A list of the artists who participated in the project can be found HERE
Ofrenda Art Installation Video: Created out of a series of still photographs (digital and film) taken by Jack Whitsitt, Paivi Salonen, and Angela Kleis. Stills were edited into a looping video which was projected onto tissue paper framed (raised above the backing) and hung on the wall as part of a Day of the Dead art exhibit in Arlington, VA
Your view of the world is interesting.
As is yours, truth be told. But maybe that just reflects an interesting world?
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