London-based conspirators Kyoung Kim and Daniel Rourke are on a mission to kludge and con the world into partaking in an internet-based, 24-hour karaoke marathon. We spoke to them to find out more about what that means, exactly.

The Creators Project: How would you describe GLTI.CH in four words without using karaoke?

GLTI.CH: Collaborative technological error wallowing.

What exactly is GLTI.CH and what is it trying to do?
GLTI.CH is about kludging. A kludge is a make-do solution to an immediate technical problem, like stopping… ]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:14:00 -0700 http://thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/blog/sing-glitchy-karaoke-over-the-web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsphM1xLByw&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:16:24 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsphM1xLByw&feature=youtube_gdata http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7996-bjork/ Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything from immense planets to tiny atoms... and a traveling exhibition that showcases one-of-a-kind instruments including a 10-foot bass-playing pendulum... and it's also an educational tool that aims to offer a modern take on music education, replacing notation and by-the-book theory with instinct and creativity. Biophilia-- due out later this year on One Little Indian/Nonesuch-- is many things. ]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:02:18 -0700 http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7996-bjork/ http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/06/12/the_truth_is_in_there/?page=full “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what happened to me.”

What happened, strictly speaking, was that Morris fought with the head of his program, Thomas Kuhn, a decorated philosopher specializing in the history of science at Princeton. Kuhn believed it was fundamentally impossible for someone in the present to understand the past — that what was considered “true” in one era might be thought false in another, and therefore “objective reality” as such… ]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:11:12 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/06/12/the_truth_is_in_there/?page=full http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/artseen/webbed-outcory-arcangel-goes-old-school Arcangel’s conflicted relationship  with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the youngest artist ever to receive an entire floor for new work. The exhibition features product demonstrations of mostly outdated technologies Ataris, Commodores, Pen Plotter Printers, to express suspicions about contemporary digital culture. The show is conspicuously absent of the Internet, ironic given Arcangel’s prolific body of web-art: no YouTube mash-ups of Lolcats playing Schoenberg, or digitally altered photographs morphing Paris Hilton into Macaulay Culkin and vice versa, or browser-based… ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:11:05 -0700 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/artseen/webbed-outcory-arcangel-goes-old-school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 19 May 2011 01:51:45 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVk&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-art-of-the-accident Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its own form of disaster but also the suggestion that in a world of network technologies the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.

Ars accidentalis recognizes the creative potential of the accident, the fall, and the instability of digital media. The book maps the transformation of space, time bodies, machines and architectures through the conceptual and noninstrumental use of the computer. ]]> Sun, 15 May 2011 06:04:52 -0700 http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-art-of-the-accident http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/brand09/brand09_index.html The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods, we might as well get good at it". Photographs of earth from space had that god-like perspective.

What I'm saying now is we are as gods and have to get good at it. Necessity comes from climate change, potentially disastrous for civilization. The planet will be okay, life will be okay. We will lose vast quantities of species, probably lose the rain forests if the climate… ]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:27:00 -0700 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/brand09/brand09_index.html http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135241869/connecting-science-and-art?sc=emaf Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog's new film on the earliest known cave paintings. ]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:07 -0700 http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135241869/connecting-science-and-art?sc=emaf http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/mf_gleick_qa/all/1 Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was or how it worked. In his new book, The Information, science writer James Gleick documents the rising role of information in our lives and the way new technologies continue to increase its velocity, volume, and importance. Gleick—whose first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award finalist and whose biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton were both short-listed for the Pulitzer—spent seven years compiling his epic account. Wired spoke… ]]> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:43:51 -0700 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/mf_gleick_qa/all/1 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/100216 Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves inside our own heads." But just as that theatre is directed by the relationship between language and matter, it is also undermined by it. It all depends how you think it. ]]> Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:46:10 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/100216 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1794 Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it came out in Italy in 2002 in the Olivares Edition) was one of the main reference points for many theorists, artists, communicators and designers, that were already well settled down in the “new technology” sector. Ten years later, thanks to the digital diffusion, grammar was already consolidated in the capitalism era and Lev Manovich decided to analyze and study that which today is seen as our “interface with the… ]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:12:00 -0700 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1794 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary progression. Then you have a second artifact buried deep on the lunar surface and programmed to signal word of man's first baby steps into the universe -- a kind of cosmic burglar alarm. And finally there's a third artifact placed in orbit around Jupiter and waiting for the time when man has reached the outer rim of his own solar system.

When the surviving astronaut, Bowman,… ]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:29:00 -0700 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/11/jonathan-safran-foer-talks-tree-of-codes-and-paper-art.html There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting professor gigs at Yale and NYU, the majestic Park Slope brownstone. There’s even a catchphrase for it—Schadenfoer!

However, those hoping for a colossal career misstep might want to pour another highball, because his latest book, Tree of Codes, is a quietly stunning work of art. The first major title by new London-based publisher Visual Editions, Tree of Codes was created by slicing out chunks of text from… ]]> Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:58:00 -0700 http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/11/jonathan-safran-foer-talks-tree-of-codes-and-paper-art.html http://moreintelligentlife.com/print/3083 What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with it, your view may twist, your ants grow, become singular, each an alien creature, somehow... ]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:38:26 -0700 http://moreintelligentlife.com/print/3083 http://moreintelligentlife.com/print/3083 What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with it, your view may twist, your ants grow, become singular, each an alien creature, somehow militarised. As primitives we ate them, they were our crunch, and now they are lodged in our subconscious. We know their noise in the soil, even if we do not acknowledge it. The mandibles dominate, snipping, giving the ant its name in Old English, “aemette”, from the proto-Germanic ai mait, meaning to cut away,… ]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:38:00 -0700 http://moreintelligentlife.com/print/3083 http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/ken-goldberg-discusses-telerobots-androids-and-heidegger This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these robots. I’ve tested two of the robots myself, discussing at length their technical merits as well as their practical shortcomings, and even helped a colleague build his own robotic self.

Although the technology behind these robots is fascinating, I’m also interested in the historical and philosophical aspects of telepresence. Telepresence robots didn’t come out of nowhere; they stem from a convergence of different technologies, each with… ]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:58:00 -0700 http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/ken-goldberg-discusses-telerobots-androids-and-heidegger http://m.io9.com/5644435/five-scientists-tell-us-about-the-most-accurate-science-fiction-in-their-fields What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right.

Several of the scientists we contacted were simply at a loss when I asked whether they could think of any science fiction that was accurate when it came to their field of study. UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine, who recently published a paper on the natural gas plumes from the Deepwater spill, asked us to let him know if we found any accurate geochemistry in SF.… ]]> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:07:00 -0700 http://m.io9.com/5644435/five-scientists-tell-us-about-the-most-accurate-science-fiction-in-their-fields