Month: February 2014

  • prostheticknowledge: WINNING Game art project by Alex Myers reduces the FPS to it’s basic principle, shoot and kill, by placing armed players in a small intimate space – video embedded below: Build a small room. Arm two players. Let them kill each other. Over and over and over and over and over. Call it “Winning.”…

  • azspot: “Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man person for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. To be able to do this a man person must have learned to learn. He She must be conscious of how much there is still…

  • A single 320-megabyte microchip requires at least 72 grams of chemicals, 700 grams of elemental gasses, 32,000 grams of water, and 1200 grams of fossil fuels. Another 440 grams of fossil fuels are used to operate the chip during its typical life span – four years of operation for three hours a day… Brenna Cussen…

  • mattjustmatt: prostheticknowledge: DevArt Upcoming exhibition at the Barbican, London, on the art of creative coding. Sponsored by Google, there is also a call for entries for any creative coders who wish to have a piece comissioned. Video embedded below: DevArt is a new type of art. It is made with code, by developers that push…

  • archivesofamericanart: Couldn’t make it to our American Art History and Digital Scholarship Symposium? Well, never fear because we now have an online report and videos of the sessions are on Youtube. Above: Titia Hulst presents on Documenting the Postwar Audience for American Avant-Garde Art. Photo by Mary Savig.

  • prostheticknowledge: METEOR BLOCKS Simple collaborative voxel editor by Sashko Stubailo lets you create and remix scenes made of blocks for fun. Each scene has it’s unique URL, so anyone with this link can edit the scene as well: The friendliest collaborative 3D pixel editor! Meteor Blocks uses the Meteor web framework and X3DOM together to…

  • fullergoeasy: I #like this picture.

  • fckyeahnetart: Evan Roth, Slide to unlock. Intellectual Property Donor. https://twitter.com/EvanRoth_/status/430781482500915200

  • adamisinky: Perfection Printing Press No. 605 mounted on a cherry base Chase size: 1 and 5/8 x 2 and 3/4  Wilkins Toy Company, Keene, New Hampshire “Perfection. A lightweight self-inking toy press, often light blue in colour. A number still survive. The catalogue of 1911 showed five models. The first two were described as ‘patented…

  • In what may be one of the most innovative change programs in Latin America, the administration of Rafael Correa is proposing to transition from a neo-liberal, free market economic model to what they are calling a social knowledge economy based on a combination of commons-based economics and the promotion of open knowledge systems. It’s heady…