Camotalk – Amsterdam Hackers & Designers Meetup

Sources for the talk I’ll give today for the Amsterdam Hackers & Designers Meetup.

Camouflage: Histories & Identities, Systems & Magic

In rough order of the talk most things I’ll reference & that are shown on the slides. There aren’t sources for every single image, I honestly just have them in a big file of shit cribbed off tumblr & image search. This isn’t exactly academic over here. I have made sure that all projects by other artists & designers are listed.

• Obligatory Gibson Quote
  
• Redcoats
• Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
• World War 1 Colour Photos
• La Guerre Documentée
• Abbott H. Thayer
  • Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
    
  • Hidden Talents: The Camouflage Paintings of Abbot Handerson Thayer
• Dazzle Camouflage
  • Stephanie Syjuco – Dazzle Camouflage Propositions
  • Stephanie Syjuco – Ultimate Vision
  • Stephen Hobbs – Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg
  • Carrie Schneider – Dazzle Camouflage

• Germany (Third Reich)
  • Introduction to German World War 2 Patterns
  • Schumptarn by Herr Urst
• TAZ / TAZ 83 / Alpenflage
• Duck Hunter
  • Original G.I. Joe
• The Ghost Army
• Lizard
• ERDL Pattern
• Tigerstripe
  • TOBI – 仕事服の男たち for WEB
• M81 Woodland
  • Predator
  • Rihanna’s fucking rad sleeping-bag coat
  •  Can’t find original source for this woodland camo dress. It was a performance piece?
• Biggie Smalls in US six-color desert camouflage
  • Disruptive Pattern Material: Blechman on Camouflage
  • DPM – Disruptive Pattern Material

• CADPAT
• MARPAT
• UCP
  • U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained
  • Street Fighter: The Movie – Camouflage
• MULTICAM® / OCP
  • And Now, the Multicam Bathrobe – Where Will It End?
  • Pictures of specops guys I probably stole off some tumblr.
  • Alex Jessup – DIAMONDBACK: ADVANCED RECON
    
  • Scorpion W2 Operational Camouflage Pattern
• Netherlands Fractal Pattern
  • Dutch Military sites censored on Google Maps
  • Voronoi Diagram
  • New pattern for the Netherlands?
  • Soldier Systems – New Dutch Camo and Uniform?
  • De laatste ontwikkelingen rondom het nieuwe gevechtstenue
  • NFP-Green
  • NFP-Tan

• Adam Harvey – CV Dazzle
• Martin Backes – Pixelhead Media Camouflage Mask
• Simone C. Niquille – RealFace Glamouflage
• MetaHaven: Black Transparency
• Suzanne Treister – Camouflage
  
• GHCQ – The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations

Related reading & resources:

The more interesting articles I read while researching the talk. You will hear me echoing ideas that these people came up with before me.

• Vanishing Ducks. Surveillance, Art & Camouflage
• I Love a Man in Uniform: The Rise of Military Industrial Complex Chic
• Disappear Us: Algorithms, Aesthetics, and the Armed Forces
• A Disguise For When You Want to be Seen
• Art, Culture & Camouflage
• Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and the Media of Reconnaissance

Bonus activity:

• happyponyland.net / Camouflage generator
  

Bonus resource:

• http://www.combatreform.org/index.htm – Great if you can bare to look at it long enough to read it.