MachineMachine /stream - tagged with video http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net YooouuuTuuube http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=TQuqeLBTetA&flux=1&direction=bottom_left Create your own trip in sound and animation using YouTube video clips (this one features Alice in Wonderland) ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:15:26 -0700 http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=TQuqeLBTetA&flux=1&direction=bottom_left Michel Serres on the word 'human' http://www.universite-du-si.com/en/conferences/8-paris-usi-2011/sessions/961-michel-serres Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956 to 1958, he served as an officer of the navy: squadron of the Atlantic, reopening of the Suez Canal, Algeria, and squadron of the Mediterranean Sea.
 
Michel Serres defended his thesis in 1968 and taught philosophy in Clermont-Ferrand, Vincennes (Paris I) and at Standford University. In his books, he focuses, among other themes, on the history of sciences (“Hermes”, 1969-1980). His philosophy, concerning as much sensibility… ]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:15:38 -0700 http://www.universite-du-si.com/en/conferences/8-paris-usi-2011/sessions/961-michel-serres Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/1044/ by Hito Steyerl

A standard way of relating politics to art assumes that art represents political issues in one way or another. But there is a much more interesting perspective: the politics of the field of art as a place of work.1 Simply look at what it does—not what it shows.
Amongst all other forms of art, fine art has been most closely linked to post-Fordist speculation, with bling, boom, and bust. Contemporary art is no unworldly discipline nestled away in some remote ivory tower. On the contrary, it is squarely placed in the neoliberal thick… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:19:16 -0700 http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/1044/ Yung Jake - Datamosh 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 Infinite Glitch.com http://infiniteglitch.com/ Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.

Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of… ]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:50:45 -0700 http://infiniteglitch.com/ Humanities in the Digital Age http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/852 Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of disciplines and with wide knowledge of the worlds of academia and publishing ponder the meaning and mission of the humanities in the digital age. Getting a handle on the term itself proves somewhat elusive. Alison Byerly invokes those fields involved with “pondering the deep questions of humanity,” such as languages, the arts, literature, philosophy and religion. Steven Pinker boils it down to “the study of the products of the… ]]> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:02:02 -0700 http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/852 Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:11:22 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8&feature=youtube_gdata Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium” http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium

What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:39:59 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium Who Needs a Movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0sR5_NTFo&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:49:49 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0sR5_NTFo&feature=youtube_gdata Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/malaria-caught-breaking-and-entering-red-blood-cell.html The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution.

The Plasmodium parasite responsible for malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to kill almost 1 million people worldwide each year.

Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used transmission electron microscopy, immuno-fluorescence and 3D super-resolution microscopy to record thousands of high-definition images of separate invasion events, a process that takes… ]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:54:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/malaria-caught-breaking-and-entering-red-blood-cell.html Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:50:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM&feature=youtube_gdata Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/11/fluid-nature-ants-mimic-liquids-to-stay-afloat.html Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by mimicking liquids that ants manage to conquer them.

In the video above, Micah Streiff and his team from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta captured writhing groups of ants behaving just like liquids. Working as a group they can turn themselves into a "raft" as they seek dry land or travel down a surface following the same physical rules as a viscous liquid. Thankfully, they… ]]> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:36:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/11/fluid-nature-ants-mimic-liquids-to-stay-afloat.html In Defense of the Poor Image http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94 by Hito Steyerl

The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.

The poor image is a rag or a rip; an AVI or a JPEG, a lumpen proletarian in the class society of appearances, ranked and valued according to its resolution. The… ]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:27:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94 Boris Groys, Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/49 The general consensus of the contemporary mass media is that the return of religion has emerged as the most important factor in global politics and culture today. Now, those who currently refer to a revival of religion clearly do not mean anything like the second coming of the Messiah or the appearance of new gods and prophets. What they are referring to rather is that religious attitudes have moved from culturally marginal zones into the mainstream. If this is the case, and statistics would seem to corroborate the claim, the question then arises as to what may have caused religious… ]]> Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:22:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/49 Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/29/geoff-mcghee-data-journalism/ What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America.

It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking at pretty pictures; it’s because we believe the discipline is an important sensemaking mechanism for today’s data deluge, a new kind of journalism that helps frame the world and what matters in it in a visual, compelling, digestible way. Stanford’s Geoff McGhee, an online journalist specializing in multimedia and information design, tends to agree. His excellent Journalism in the Age of Data explores data visualization as… ]]> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:19:00 -0700 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/29/geoff-mcghee-data-journalism/ Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage) http://stock.mrfootage.com/Disaster_Disaster_reenactments_panic_people_31_footage.php Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts buildings. Loud speaker blasts warning to crowd ]]> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:00:00 -0700 http://stock.mrfootage.com/Disaster_Disaster_reenactments_panic_people_31_footage.php SAME HAT! (tumblr) http://samehat.tumblr.com/ For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running!

The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music and random whatever from the bowels of the internet-- all stuff loosely related to the imagined community that is "SAME HAT". ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:34:00 -0700 http://samehat.tumblr.com/ The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/takeshi-murata?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about this on a larger scale with something like the internet, where everything is just floating out there in an open space without regulation. Do you feel that, overall, it’s beneficial to art or does it make it easier for people to claim other people’s ideas as their own? Takeshi Murata: It’s great. I see a lot of things online that inspire me greatly. One of the things I’ve learned as… ]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:01:00 -0700 http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/takeshi-murata?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/07/a-diatribe-from-the-remains-of-dr-fred-mccabe.html

by Daniel Rourke

About a month ago in handling the remains of one Dr. Fred McCabe I found rich notes of contemplation on the subject of information theory. It appears that Fred could have written an entire book on the intricacies of hidden data, encoded messages and deceptive methods of transmission. Instead his notes exist in the form of a cryptic assemblage of definitions and examples, arranged into what Dr. McCabe himself labelled a series of ‘moments’.

I offer these moments alongside some of the ten thousand images Dr. McCabe amassed in a separate, but intimately…

]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:25:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/07/a-diatribe-from-the-remains-of-dr-fred-mccabe.html Tiny diver ants Vs red ants - Ant Attack - BBC wildlife http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL3sHuK3iGE&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:46:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL3sHuK3iGE&feature=youtube_gdata