SCALE 2004 Founding year

Nine issues published in 2004 from the University of California, San Diego, as a monthly journal of aesthetics and computation. The edition was distributed in print and PDF.

The founding year drew together UCSD Visual Arts and Computer Science faculty, students, guest editors, and networked artists. Co-founders Jon Phillips and Patrick W. Deegan anchored the journal; faculty and theorists including Lev Manovich and Joseph Goguen appeared alongside contributors such as Timothy Jaeger, D. Fox Harrell, Brad Borevitz, Neil Suber, Matt Hope, Stefani Bardin, Nathaniel Clark, and the C5 collective (Lisa Jevbratt, Christina McPhee, Andrea Polli). Guest editor Joel Swanson shaped the combined August–September issue. Browse each issue below for full tables of contents, excerpts, and open PDFs.

Issues

Issue No. 1

Timothy Jaeger on laptop performance aesthetics; Patrick Deegan on palm trees and modularity; Rachel Beth Egenhoefer in conversation; a collaborative piece on distributed writing; and Caltranzit's art-car map.

Issue No. 2

Cover by Joel Swanson; Harrell on identity and poetry; Colbert's Shear Design; Borevitz on PPPP; Dragulescu's Havoc; Trifonova's Of Marmots; Matt Hope's Hornmassive; Deegan on Caltranzit's Taxi Babel; and Neil Suber on Super Cell Sound System.

Issue No. 3

Guest editor Temenuga Trifonova; cover by Neil Suber; Borevitz's Turing-machine longing; Hope on Horn Massive context; Manovich on remix culture; Schultz on Duchamp and interactivity; DeMaison's Assorted Meditations; Goguen's travel poems; Colbert's Trimming; Hadis on digital snapshots; and works by Hi and SIKESTYLE.

Issue No. 4

Guest editor Patrick Miller; cover Toro Chromodo; Googans and Schmidt's Alex Starver; Bardin on poet-as-user in new media; Funes's Wearing the World; Ortiz-Torres on Tropical America; Deegan and Phillips on social software; Borevitz on container objects; Clark's word hits and Psychic Radio; Ochoa, Trevino, Smith, Parfrey, and Egenhoefer; Hope's Wall of Sound; Neénoon; and Winter's Coming Soon.

Issue No. 5

Guest editor Neil Stuber; CVS Book sampling—Phillips on concurrency and collaboration; Goguen against technological determinism; Clark on MESH.FM; Harrell's Raposa Vermelha; and Deegan on Scale and social scalability.

Issues No. 6–7

Double issue on networked collaboration and open source creativity: Podolak's intro; Sier's Struct_1; Tuozzo on scenesterism; Schoster's Beneath the Arbor; Hadis on football; C5 Big Data; Tomaxamot, The Chisa, and Winter; plus Wilson, Schakola, Hazleton, Goldberg, Fields, BARR, DJ Epsy, and Anonymous.

Issues No. 8–9

SCALE—a monthly local publication on aesthetics and computation, distributed in print and PDF—closes Volume 1 with guest editor Joel Swanson; an apocalypse-themed issue with Amerika, Egenhoefer, Keyes, Marshall, audio works, and many anonymous contributions.