Month: February 2014

  • Lecture: Paolo Pedercini’s “Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism” (2014) A 30 minute lecture by Paolo Pedercini aka Molleindustria originally given at Indiecade East 2014, based on an essay included in the catalog of Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, an exhibition at FACT gallery in Liverpool. LINK: Paolo Pedercini aka Mollindustria Suvmitted by Matteo…

  • A creation of programmer, designer, writer, theorist, and industry gadfly Chris Crawford, Balace of Power is an ambitious geopolitical simulation of the contemporary world circa 1985. Its original incarnation on the Macintosh appears to be lost, meaning we must piece together how it worked by reading reviews and playing a later port to an early…

  • syfycity: 90s CYYBERPUNK KID, from 2600 | The Hacker Quarterly fb pagehttp://syfycity.tumblr.com

  • A rare opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with CRUMB or/and Design. Previous applicants are very welcome to apply. Please distribute. Details now available at http://nuweb2.northumbria.ac.uk/cdt/ Northumbria-Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Art and Design invites high-quality applications for AHRC-funded studentships starting in October 2014, for PhD study in or across our Art and…

  • lifeandcode: YES PLEASE

  • George W. Bush’s Aristocratic “Art”

    hyperallergic: George W. Bush’s Aristocratic Outsider “Art” The George W. Bush Presidential Center is to host an exhibition of the man’s paintings (image via Wikipedia) An old college friend once rented a townhouse in Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, from a retired spook who, in his later years, had taken up the avocation of painting.…

  • Why the Internet Will Soon Be Two-Tiered

    Why the Internet Will Soon Be Two-Tiered When it comes to accessing the Internet, mobile-phone networks are of particular importance to marginalized communities, including people of color and those with lower incomes. A recent Pew survey found that a full 21 percent of cell phone owners in the United States mostly use their phones to…

  • ocrprocess: 1000 random walking trips as described by Google directions.

  • Congressmen Propose National Resale Royalty Act for Artists

    hyperallergic: The seal of the US Copyright Office (via Wikimedia) US Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) have introduced a bill that would give visual artists royalties on the resale of their work, or droit de suite, Congress announced this afternoon. The bill is called the American Royalties, Too…