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Does Software Piracy Kill Innovation. William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong. Author William Gibson poses for a portrait at the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.Photo: Jason Redmond/Wired.

William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong

Going Viral. Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter. Cloud & Big Data Topics Evolve for Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. Only eight weeks lie between now and the next US Presidential election and the next International Cloud Expo - the latter to be held Nov 5-8 at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center.

Cloud & Big Data Topics Evolve for Cloud Expo in Santa Clara

Politics often become part of cloud discussions, particularly in the areas of open source and its unloved cousin, cloudwashing. Bidoun - Art & Culture from the Middle East. Look and Click: Perspective in Photography - Top Creative Mag - Creative Web Design and Digital Content Magazine. It seems to be but is not.

Look and Click: Perspective in Photography - Top Creative Mag - Creative Web Design and Digital Content Magazine

This post is about perspective in photography and they possibilities. Be in the right place at the right time, that’s the secret take great photos. With a little attention and adequate patience, we can build unique images in an altered reality. Good use of perspective and framing camera can give unrealistic images that surely attract the attention of our audience.We must remain vigilant to the environment and capture the exact moment that our eyes perceive a nonexistent reality.

A fresh insight into Science Museum's programme and events. Robert Montgomery: Echoes of Voices in the High Towers by mono.kultur. We are the publishing team behind the independent interview magazine mono.kultur, based in Berlin, Germany.

Robert Montgomery: Echoes of Voices in the High Towers by mono.kultur

Our concept is as simple as it is beautiful: one issue, one artist, one conversation – no more, no less. In the past seven years, we have worked with some amazing personalities, such as Tilda Swinton, Ryan McGinley, Ai Weiwei, The Wu-Tang Clan, Miranda July and many, many more. Please read our bio to find out more about us, because what we really want to talk about is Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery is a fine artist based in London, whose work we first discovered a few years ago.

Robert writes poems – but instead of publishing them in books, he sends them out into the public space in the form of large light installations or billboards in between advertising. Robert has an amazing way with words. Meet Ms. Siri, Your New Teacher. A London-based startup, Kuato Studios, is expected to come out later this year with a newgameto teach kids computer programming.

Meet Ms. Siri, Your New Teacher

This isn’t a lightly "gamified" platform like Khan Academy's new computer science offerings or Codecademy. Kuato Studios is building an immersive, richly illustrated third-person shooter that will have 11- to 15-year-old players "terraforming a virtual world through coding and science," created by developers from companies like Konami and Rockstar Games. The game boasts a special secret sauce: the next generation of "virtual personal assistant" technology from SRI, the research institute that created the iPhone’s Siri.

11 Modern Web Typography - Top Creative Mag - Web Design and Digital Content Magazine. Typography is one of the most important aspects of web design.

11 Modern Web Typography - Top Creative Mag - Web Design and Digital Content Magazine

The use of typography can make or break the whole feel of the design. Here’s a compilation of 11 modern web fonts that you can use on your new website design. 1- Ribera Ribera is a contemporary sans serif typeface including three styles. NPR. Michigan Engineering: Engineers and artists at the University of... Artist's Incredible Life-Like Underwater Sculptures Help Rebuild Coral (Video) 90s Pop Music Was Really, Really Depressing. Between Oasis, Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, No Doubt, Boyz II Men, and Sarah McLachlan, 90s pop music hits took a strong turn towards the depressing.

90s Pop Music Was Really, Really Depressing

And, with Mariah Carey, Cher, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Sheryl Crow, Sinead O’Connor and Britney Spears, it was heavy on female leads, especially when compared to previous decades. As we’ve previously discussed, scientists have recently found that pop music is growing louder and louder with time. And, as you might have noticed, pop songs are all sort of starting to sound the same. Now, in a new study, says the Research Digest blog of the British Psychological Society, S > portfolio > interaction design > Photographer Richard Mosse to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale. The artist Richard Mosse, best known for his large scale infrared photographs of the conflict in the eastern Congo, has been selected to represent Ireland in next year's Venice Biennale.

Photographer Richard Mosse to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale

He will present an eight-channel video installation of his work from the region which, according to Anna O'Sullivan, Ireland's curator for the 2013 Biennale, "will push this work into a strong, immersive multimedia environment". Mosse was born in Ireland in 1980, but lives and works in New York, where he's represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.

Women, Art & Technology: A Conversation with Amy Alexander. Amy Alexander This conversation follows in a series of interviews with women who work at the intersection of art and technology.

Women, Art & Technology: A Conversation with Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander’s work as an artist, performer, musician, and professorapproaches art and technology from a performing arts perspective, often examining intersections of art and popular culture. Amy Alexander is an artist and researcher working in audiovisual performance and digital media art. CARTOGRAPHY. Join us for our official Opening reception of Betsabee Romero's new exhibition "Cartography of an Identity" curated by Laura Pomerantz and Sponsored by the General Consulate of Mexico and Los Angeles on September 22nd at 6 pm at Bergamont Station Building F2.Betsabee will be here for interviews starting September 17th.Betsabee has participated in numerous artist residencies and exhibitions in major institution in Mexico, Latin America, the US and Europe.

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We are excited to have you be part of our opening Reception to RVSP adcgallery@gmail.com or call 323-839-5786 Link: Address: Book Launch: Interface Criticism. Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons. (Søren Pold & Christian Ulrik, 2011) Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold (ed.): Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons (Aarhus University Press, 2011) From the screen of our laptops, and from the ubiquitous portable devices, smart phones, and media players, to the embedded computation in clothes, architecture and big urban screens – interfaces are everywhere.

They are simultaneously demanding our attention and computing quietly in the background, turning action into inter-action, and mediating our experience of and relations to the social and environmental. Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 3: The Cyborg-Historical. Superflux headset to enable prosthetic vision. The Future-Present is something that once one has begun to notice it, it becomes very difficult to not see.

This visual pattern of our conception of the future has the occult symbolism of apophenia, an illusion of perception generated as glitching artifact by the same non-illusory means by which we perceive reality. The Interface Effect - Alexander R. Galloway - Google Books. Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces.

Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent and immediate connection. But, following the pessimistic path, media are the obstacles to direct communion, disintegrating self and other into misunderstanding and contradiction. In other words, media interfaces are either clear or complicated, either beautiful or deceptive, either already known or endlessly interpretable. Pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.105/15.2pold.txt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interface Realisms: The Interface as Aesthetic Form Soren Pold University of Aarhus pold@multimedia.au.dk (c) 2005 Soren Pold. Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon: Homepage. Books and JavaScript stored in DNA molecules - tech - 16 August 2012. Forget flash – the computers of the future might store data in DNA.

George Church of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and colleagues have encoded a 53,400-word book, 11 JPG images and a JavaScript program – amounting to 5.27 million bits of data in total – into sequences of DNA. Sigmasix. Cryptic poetry written in a microbe's DNA. Leonardo's womb, gold postboxes and crazy golf – the week in art. Exhibition of the week: Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist. Tate Modern's waste of space: why won't interactive art leave me alone? ~ Alicia Hunsicker ~ Visual Artist ~ BOUNDLESS: Artist Residency in Austria & Journey to CERN by Alicia Hunsicker.

Hello Friends! Pdf/1205.5651v1.pdf. Silence: since everything already communicates,... TsunamiWaveHeight.jpg (1500×1000) SIGMASIX Lab Motion Interaction. Mapping Festival 2011. Mapping Festival 2012. Legoman - accueil. Straydogs's sets. Intangible States website. iMAL.org. NewAESTHETICS. Marius Watz. Closed systems: Generative art and Software Abstraction Text for Lab[au] “Metadesign” monograph, May 2010. Links. Socratic Arts - EXTRA - Socratic Arts. A Face Drawn Using Only Letters From Comic Sans. 120buntu.com. Www.darc.imv.au.dk/worldofthenewspaper.pdf. Yup, it really does all sound the same. The evolution of modern pop music. DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.

DARC – Digital Aesthetics Research Center. Public Interfaces. ISMB/ECCB 2011 Art & Science. Darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/13.pdf. README 100. DARC – Digital Aesthetics Research Center. The Aesthetics of Interface Culture. Interface Aesthetics: An Introduction. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. Monster Mash. The Art of Failure 2012. 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris. Jonathan Harris . Work. YouTube Launches Digital Citizenship Curriculum for Teachers. Plausibility Isn't the Endgame. Arcfinity. Internet of Things. City of QR Codes. Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 1: The Spark. Glitch Studies Manifesto by Rosa Menkman. Encoded Matter « introspector.

Bio-art: a decade of content. Turingfest - Home. ~IDENTITÄT – The »Gestalt« of digital identity. NIKOLA TECHNOPERA. Information aesthetics - Data Visualization & Information Design. Current Exhibitions. Rhizome. Esono.com - boris müller. Intangible States. Bordos.Artworks * high resolution 3d animations * architectural video projections * video mapping * holographic projection * video projection on buildings * architekturális video vetítés * kültéri épület vetítés * videó fényfestés. Vj Centrum Budapest. Projection on Buildings, 3D & Visual Mapping. Transmediale. Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence.

RECREATIONAL DATA. NODE08 - Forum For Digital Arts » Contributions. Wiiwiiwiiwii - Claudio Midolo Edgar Castellanos Pedro Mari Natan Sinigaglia.