Month: June 2015

  • It gets bet­t­er. There are whole spe­cies of other bots that in­fest the Amazon Mar­ketplace, pre­tend­ing to have used co­p­ies of books, fight­ing epic price wars no one ever sees. So with “Tur­ing Test” we have a de­light­ful futuris­tic ab­surd­ity: a com­put­er pro­gram, pre­tend­ing to be human, hawk­ing a book about com­put­ers pre­tend­ing to be…

  • I just made Connected Worlds – a 3000 sqft interactive ecosystem made with openFrameworks. Happy to answer any questions. • /r/creativecoding

    I just made Connected Worlds – a 3000 sqft interactive ecosystem made with openFrameworks. Happy to answer any questions. • /r/creativecoding A great explainer AMA about how this project (which is slated to run 5-10 years) works…lessons for every installation artist.

  • code drawing 70, #madeonhopscotch

  • code drawing 68, state 8, #madeonhopscotch

  • African sci-fi features all manner of weird and outlandish things, from crime-fighting robots to technological dystopias. But could they be closer to predicting the future than they realise? (via The weird worlds of African sci-fi – African Business Magazine)

  • <blockquote> “I couldn’t really explain it,” he says. “It made me realize that I really wanted to make things, something you can hold in your hand, something that lasts longer than a digital product. I wanted to give something to my children."  From this desire, Petrikas started smart toy company Vai Kai with Justyna Zubrycka,…

  • It is a sorry state of affairs when the gaming industry, for decades, has produced only a very specific kind of entertainment, and that has resulted in an audience that is now culturally illiterate, has appalling attitudes towards social issues and considers art guilty until proven innocent. Edward Smithhttp://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gamers-vs-art-attitudes-video-games-like-her-story-sunset-are-killing-this-industry-1507887 (via notgames)

  • nevver: William Powhida

  • Mathematics are very little understood by the way it is taught in schools. Most of us are made phobics of mathematics in high school, by the ridiculous way it is taught. All you’re thinking about throughout the semester is ‘is this going to be on the test?’ whereas what you should be thinking is “what…