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    Binatone Galaxy

26/11/2012 / Environment, Sound

In MP3: The Meaning of a Format, Jonathan Sterne observes "that it is no accident that so many media technologies are built around spinning mechanisms" while pointing to the grooves of a vinyl record and wound-down rolls of audio tape as examples ...
    UP Festival – Makeathon

13/08/2012 / News

Over the last few years there has been no shortage of festivals and RFPs exploring themes of 'urban hacking'. That said, every now and then a gem comes along. A hyper-organized call for proposals organized by San Francisco's Gray Area ...
    the_immortal-2 copy

21/05/2012 / Events, Other

A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. This is an installation by Revital Cohen who modified and connected organ replacement machines together to have them 'breathe' in a ...
    Interactivos? Thumbnail

27/04/2012 / News

Interactivos?09 – Garage Science, photo: Alejandro Tamayo A call for proposals for the upcoming instalment of Medialab-Prado's excellent Interactivos? research platform has been posted and it looks quite promising. "Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs" is being produced in collaboration with Science ...
    glitch-momentum-cover-640x480

22/03/2012 / Review

One need only look as far as the upstart GLI.TC/H festival and its vibrant constellation of related practitioners to see that the glitch aesthetic is alive and well. Rosa Menkman has been active as an artist, theorist, organizer and agitator within ...
    utagger02 copy

16/12/2011 / c++, Objects

Last September, GML group launched The GML Field Recorder Challenge. The project was an invitation to artists and hackers to design a DIY hardware and software solution for unobtrusively recording graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the ...
    NASA copy

03/11/2011 / News

"New Art/Science Affinities" is a new publication focusing on artists working right now at the intersection of art, science and technology. Co-published by The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, this 190-page book was ...
    compiterlessarduino00

04/03/2011 / Arduino

Latest from the Teague Labs comes in the form of Computerless Arduino, small, inexpensive visual interface for Arduino that doesn’t require a computer to change the code, so you can take it with you and make awesome things anywhere. It consists ...
    inPulse0

27/02/2011 / Objects

The inPulse was originally a BlackBerry peripheral, but now, it's a fully programmable device Bluetooth wrist computer. It's manufacturer Allerta released an SDK few week back, which lets the 52Mhz ARM7 processor and 8Kb of RAM within display whatever you'd like on ...
    glitchcon00

14/07/2010 / Events

GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010. GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & ...
    pushn900USA

24/01/2010 / Other

Nokia and the Push 900 (hacking project) have just announced the same PUSH concept focusing on the North American individuals or groups keen to hack Nokia's N900 device. Check out the new USA site for details of what PUSH N900 USA is ...
    nokiahackerbox00

22/12/2009 / Featured, Objects, Other

If you were reading out tweets yesterday you would have picked up we received a very nice surprise from Nokia. Nicely wrapped box within a box with included christmas card, USB cable and a small instruction reading "Can't hack it...for ...