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Media Art Needs Global Networked Organisation & Support — International Declaration
State of Affairs Digital technology has fundamentally changed the way art is made. Over the last forty years, Media Art has become a significant part of our networked information society. Although there are well-attended international festivals, collaborative research projects, exhibitions and database documentation resources, Media Art research is still marginal in universities, museums and archives.…
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illillill: Duane Michals Found out last week that Duane Michals is an alum from the University of Denver.
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nevver: Occupy Everything when one uses the word “mask” in Scribblenauts for the iPad the result is Guy Fawlkes.
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The police arrested Apollinaire and Picasso, both foreigners and, more threatening, both well-known advocates of modern art’s revolutionary power. Apollinaire often proclaimed, “in art, one has to kill one’s father,” and had signed a petition in support of burning down the Louvre. Picasso himself had advocated against museums as “petty and ridiculous things.” While such…
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(via Hello, Skater Girl by Julian Bleecker — Kickstarter) I’ve followed the development of Julian Bleecker’s project, Hello, Skater Girl, for some time. In it Julian is bringing a spotlight onto an under represented part of the skater population. His photos celebrate strength, grace, and agility of these athletes. His interviews provide humanizing depth. (Source:…
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My brother and I played Mega Man all night every night for a week one summer when we were kids. We were staying at a condo at the beach with our parents for vacation and the game was there, plugged up to a small TV in the corner of the bedroom we shared. We sat…
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The school raised money to buy more computers for us to play Oregon Trail on. They made space in the budget to build new computer labs, to buy new computers to put in them. This was a pattern that all the schools that I would attend would follow; every few years, they had to find…
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As Aaron Messing, an information privacy lawyer at Olender Feldman in New Jersey, explained it, Is Anyone Up? is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The act provides immunity for Internet service providers—which is interpreted as including websites and blogs—who publish information provided by others. As long as Moore’s material…
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When she read the note, my mother wasn’t too worried. She didn’t think the video game thing was a problem because boys will be boys and she had two of them to deal with, after all, but she told me that maybe for a while I should try writing and drawing and talking about some…
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A nice write up on the future of User Interface and the hand element.
A nice write up on the future of User Interface and the hand element. Spend a few minutes to take a quick read. This one also related to topics we’ve been discussing recently.