Month: September 2013

  • In designing user interfaces, we aim to empower the “user” to understand and control the system at hand. Output via screens and speakers, with input from a keyboard, a touch screen or gestures. Between them, the “user” is understood to be our conscious “mind” – the logical bit of our brain that thinks it’s in…

  • I’m not sure software enables new ways of thinking, but I think it does broaden and popularize known paradigms. Through simulation, software can help people to think about complex and multivariate systems. Writing software encourages people to think clearly and systematically. New telecommunications software certainly changes the way we behave and relate to other people…

  • How to Get Art & Artist Grants, Funding, Residencies – Tips, Help

    How to Get Art & Artist Grants, Funding, Residencies – Tips, Help

  • notational: (via How to Cite Social Media in Scholarly Writing | SAGE Connection – Insight)

  • Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media

    Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media azspot: Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an…

  • SABINE SEYMOUR AND COMPUTATIONAL FASHION AT EYEBEAM

    eyebeamstorefront: Fashion technologists / author Dr. Sabine Seymour often stops-by for Computational Fashion ; a new Eyebeam initiative (and area of research) bringing together artists, designers, scientists, and technologists with the fashion industry to explore emerging ideas and develop new work at the intersection of fashion and technology, curated by alumni Paul Amitai. Seymour focuses on fashionable technology and the…

  • vectorbelly: Twitter: The Comic is a collection of comics based on the greatest tweets of our generation. The source material is used verbatim, typos and all. Despite the seemingly random nature of the tweets, the comic has reoccurring characters and story arcs that aren’t fully understood unless experienced through a single reading. With explicit permission…

  • marrrgie: made it fast so you can see how much the lights actually move

  • amelia-crosssing: Bringing this back because of feels

  • shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON Mickey Nardo (1boringoldman) quotes a recent Scientific American article: For most of the DSM‘s history, investigators have not had a detailed understanding of what causes mental illness. That excuse is no longer valid. Neuroscientists now understand some of the ways that brain circuits for memory, emotion and attention malfunction in various mental disorders… Then he goes…