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That is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?

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Oscilloscope music. The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziuEdpVUe0

Planting a logo in a field using a precision prescription:

http://www.agprofessional.com/news/planting-prescription-sho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbyeM2C1Oc

Jump to 5:20 to hear Aphex Twin's face.

Also these animations in a spectrograph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx6Gqf1Q4w

Make your own with ARSS:

http://arss.sourceforge.net

Aphex Twin's face apparently sounds like a cat meowing, didn't expect that at all lol

I immediately thought of the test flight patterns that pilots draw across the US with their flight plans.

Here is a boeing test flight that drew out the boeing logo across the united states:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/787-dreamliner-draw...

Oodles of "actual" net art from back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Jodi is especially famous/good: http://www.net-art.org/jodi

In 1985, Chris Capon wrote a program called "Sing Song Serenade" for the Commodore 64 + 1541 disk drive. It loaded a program into the disk drive that made the stepper motor vibrate to the tune of "Daisy Bell".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o

Nowadays replicated (mostly) by linear actuators in stuff like the Steam controllers from Valve (intended for vibration in games). Even the Nintendo Switch joycons now have the same kind of actuators and can do this too (play sounds).

student sketches the main building of the university on the BIX ipv6 traffic graph

http://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/409/4091/40917/4091708_d30ae9...

Semicnductor art: https://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/sili...

(Editted to add See also https://web.archive.org/web/20130917012514/http://www.chipwo...)

How about Star Wars in traceroute? http://evilrouters.net/2013/02/09/when-ccies-get-bored-star-...

traceroute -m 50 bad.horse

"stock market crop circles"

spectrogram art (both for audio and RF signals)

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