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  March 14 2011, 1:59am | Comments

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  March 12 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Link Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion…

  March 12 2011, 2:55am | Comments

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• Link Prop Theory in a Nutshell

  Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game –…

  March 10 2011, 10:31am | Comments

• Link “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke

  it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder;…

  March 10 2011, 10:10am | Comments

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  Inspiration comes in many forms, iTunes RAW on Soundcloud: snd.sc/eJcq5C

  

  March 10 2011, 8:37am | Comments

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• 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 Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better…

  Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient…

  March 9 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Link North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike…

  March 9 2011, 7:11am | Comments

• Link Infinite Glitch.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…

  March 9 2011, 6:50am | Comments

• Link Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze…

  There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere…

  March 8 2011, 10:46am | Comments

• Link Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If,…

  March 8 2011, 10:41am | Comments

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  Seeing this my 1st thought was "Must be a work of art". I blame Baudrillard, Goldsmiths & East London (in that order) t.co/nDxLIhN

  

  March 7 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Link Humanities in the Digital Age

  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…

  March 6 2011, 1:02pm | Comments

• Link Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter…

  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…

  March 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Flickr Cory Arcangel, Beat The Champ @ The Barbican, Curve

  March 5 2011, 8:36am | Comments

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  Heading to the Barbican to catch @cory_arcangel show on this chilly Saturday afternoon ... Anything else around there worth catching?

  

  March 5 2011, 7:43am | Comments

• Link Humans, Version 3.0

  This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep…

  March 5 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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  'Virus' in Latin means 'poison'... Communication cannot go on without the element... of contagion at its centre. goo.gl/BKUY1 @juspar

  

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• Tumblr Hunters

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• Link Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)

  The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the…

  March 3 2011, 8:55am | Comments

• Link The New Virology

  Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The…

  March 3 2011, 8:45am | Comments

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  Kittler & Virilio: The information bomb is not being dropped on a single city but on the territory of the entire planet goo.gl/vZb0q

  

  March 3 2011, 7:45am | Comments

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  March 3 2011, 2:11am | Comments

• Link Gif and Take: dump.fm

  Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social…

  March 2 2011, 4:05pm | Comments

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  March 2 2011, 3:39pm | Comments

• Link The artists who crossed the line

  The group first came to prominence in February 2008, two days before the carefully choreographed elections that brought President Dmitry Medvedev to power. About 12 activists, one of whom was…

  March 2 2011, 3:29pm | Comments

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• Link The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing

  The field of the digital humanities embraces various scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in digital media production.…

  March 2 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Link Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

  hrough Insect Media I wanted to investigate non-human media theory – and how we have for a longer time understood high-tech media through nature; through metaphors adapted from nature and…

  March 2 2011, 7:35am | Comments

• Link The not so universal tree of life or…

  According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every…

  March 2 2011, 7:32am | Comments

• Link Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers…

  March 2 2011, 7:28am | Comments

• Link Post-Digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism

  What is it that constitutes (a) post-digital art, and how can it be thought in terms of aesthetic theory – or even post-aesthetic theory? In one sense, post-digital(1) refers to…

  February 27 2011, 5:57am | Comments

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  " For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a small, regional nuclear war as 100 Hiroshima-level bombs" gizmo.do/dEsbe4

  

  February 27 2011, 3:23am | Comments

• Tumblr nevver: The Thin Man

  February 25 2011, 11:46am | Comments

• Link The Loneliest Whale in the World

  ...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52…

  February 25 2011, 11:04am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Whitechapel Gallery - John Stezaker retrospective

  February 25 2011, 6:55am | Comments

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