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Taryn Simon: Image Atlas concerns the different ways of thinking about language in the future. It is about the global versus the local; about the loss of language and how we’re all communicating now through images and abbreviated text. We communicate much less these days through the considered written word. Is that creating the possibility…
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prostheticknowledge: Digital Revolution First of two pieces on a day trip to London covering events related to digital arts. This one is about the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican. This was certainly an exhibition I had been looking forward to, being as it is on a subject close to this blog’s heart. The UK…
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algopop: Bots – talking amongst themselves – via A twitter conversation between two bots (@oliviataters and @notkeithcalder) was picked up and intercepted by the Bank of America bot account. This is twitter bot culture sans humans.
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zerostatereflex: Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
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zerostatereflex: Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
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grupaok: Daniel Mróz, Illustration, 1955, for Stanisław Lem’s The Astronauts, 1951
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txchnologist: Sewing Machine Makes Cheap Stretchy Component Needed For Wearable Tech And Soft Robots Purdue University engineers have come up with a new and simpler way to make stretchy connections for electronics. Such power- and information-transporting materials are needed for soft robotics, next-generation implants and wearable technologies to advance. The group used a regular sewing…
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txchnologist: Sewing Machine Makes Cheap Stretchy Component Needed For Wearable Tech And Soft Robots Purdue University engineers have come up with a new and simpler way to make stretchy connections for electronics. Such power- and information-transporting materials are needed for soft robotics, next-generation implants and wearable technologies to advance. The group used a regular sewing…
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luxology: Language and Chaos (1989-1990), Mike Parr Mike Parr’s self portrait is one that attempts to map the interactions of mind and body, the conscious and the unconscious. It is not a solipsistic search for the self but rather an attempt to explore the human condition and how the personal informs the political. In his self-portrait…
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christianmccrea: me irl