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One example this week is the reaction to an article by Ian Bogost at the Atlantic. Bogost asks a perfectly intellectual question about the direction of the gaming medium, about whether the focus on characters at the expense of expressive systems was a bad choice. His is a question analogous to any that a literary…
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theverge: One of Adweek’s staff members was swiping through Tinder at SXSW when he matched with Ava, a seemingly normal 25-year-old who turned out to be the love of exactly no one’s life. Ava was a Tinder bot created to promote Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, which premiered yesterday at SXSW.
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The iPhone exists, as Mariana Mazzucato demonstrated in her 2013 book “The Entrepreneurial State,” because various branches of the U.S. government provided research assistance that resulted in several key technological developments, including G.P.S., multi-touch screens, L.C.D. displays, lithium-ion batteries, and cellular networks. Jill Lepore in Why Inequality Persists in America for The Atlantic. (via blech)
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semioticapocalypse: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray. Entr’acte. 1924 [::SemAp FB || SemAp::]
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ibmconsulting: BBC to give out one million ‘Micro Bit’ computers to get kids codingNick Summers, engadget.com It’s the first year of a major new coding curriculum in the UK, and now the BBC wants to play its part in training the next generation of star programmers. The broadcaster is developing a spiritual successor to the…
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Our mistake, as creatures of the electronic age and mere immigrants to unfolding digital era, is to see digital technology as a subject rather than a landscape. It’s the same as confusing the television set with the media environment created by the television set, or the little smart phone in your pocket with the greater…
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christophereugenemills: B7_Mesh2_Woven Plotter Prints Available
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p-dpa: Not the End of Print – Warum Gestalter selbst publizieren und welche Rolle das Print-Medium dabei spielt, Isabel Seiffert (2014)
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koderburo: Whatever….