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“Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options; Call for Help
“Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options; Call for Help First, OpenNI was always dominated by a single company, PrimeSense. And rightfully so: PrimeSense developed the core technologies in the first Kinect camera, and had the talent who knew how to use it. But that in turn meant that OpenNI…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them. David Wong (via souroddball)
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killscreen: The Getty breaks down this amazingly terrible game about colonization. How to Colonize (for Kids!), as explained by this 20th century French board game: Hoist the French flag onto your newfound soil Build a hospital Erect a school Open your harbor Reap the benefits of rich natural resources from around the world and sail…
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babycastles: We’re excited to announce a month-long pop-up arcade at the Ace Hotel! The Armory Show partnered with the Ace Hotel to put together a free, open to the public installation and we are so excited to have been invited to be a part of this. The exhibit is called Art Video Games in China and was…