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camgirlproject: S1m0ne, Andrew Niccol (2002) The film centres around a producer whose solution to his actress dropping out of a film mid-production is to create a new actress. He creates a virtual image for his film, whose fame takes off overnight and accumulates a fan base. He continues her programming, casting her in films and…
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Destiny’s Unintended Critique of Consumerism
newyorker: Simon Parkin analyzes Destiny, a video game that is, by design, “never completely satisfying”: “Like World of Warcraft, when you peel back the metaphor, the game offers a bleak (if unintended) critique of consumerism: once you reach the endgame, you become a character that has everything in world. Everything, that is, except for a…
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The 2014 Leonardo Award for Excellence
Congratulations to our colleague Conor McGarrigle! We are pleased and honored to announce that the 2014 Leonardo Award for Excellence has been awarded to Conor McGarrigle for his article “Augmented Resistance: The Possibilities for AR and Data Driven Art,” published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Vol. 19, No. 1, 2013. Conor McGarrigle is an artist…
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Brendan Dawes – Six Monkeys
Brendan Dawes – Six Monkeys Six Monkeys – commissioned by Mailchimp – explores our interactions with email through physical Internet connected objects. Email is often thought of with negative connotations; overflowing inboxes, strategies on how to get to inbox zero, dealing with the constant barrage of spam whilst each week seemingly giving raise to a…
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hyperallergic: (via At the Guggenheim, Three Critical Takes on Latin America) Let’s start by saying, just in case it’s not obvious, that there’s something nearly impossible about conceptualizing and mounting a show as wide in its thematic and geographic scope as Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo León de…