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Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps,…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
Link The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in…
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments
Link How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing…
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments
Link Content For Users on the Move
What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments
Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from…

June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments
Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics,…

March 10 2011, 6:05am | Comments
Link The interface and the machine
Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense…

January 10 2011, 4:53am | Comments
Link Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of…
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”…

December 13 2010, 7:12pm | Comments
Link How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of…
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be…

December 8 2010, 8:46am | Comments
Link Big Ball of Mud
The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British…

July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola…

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Link Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence,…

March 12 2010, 4:09am | Comments
Link Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy
by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to…

February 19 2010, 7:37am | Comments
Link The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of…

December 8 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Link Simon Biggs
Website and interactive portfolio of artist

January 30 2009, 9:02am | Comments

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