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‘36,000 Feet’ is a game where you are playing as a flight passenger coming back from its holidays. You are currently flying over Afghanistan…
03/11/2021Poetic Computation: Reader is an online-book about code as a form of poetry and aesthetic by Taeyoon Choi. Based on his lectures at the School for Poetic Computation, the book introduces the poetic aspects of computation and considers how engaging technology with this lens can lead to new political possibilities.
27/09/2017A follow-up to the influential 2012 booklet series “Critical Making,” “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” is a new zine by Vancouver-based theorist and educator Garnet Hertz that uses dissent as a lens to survey electronics-based projects and practices.
13/07/2017“Queer Games Studies” is a recent collection of thematic essays published by the University of Minnesota Press that schematizes LGBTQ approachs to thinking about – and making – videogames.
06/06/2017Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
15/05/2017Entropic System is a drawing machine that inscribes ornate geometric patterns into a bed of ‘black beauty’ sand. Made by the Denver-based media artist Laleh Mehran the device has instability built-in to it, and creates a feedback loop where approaching it affects its output.
11/04/2017The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
31/03/2017In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
20/03/2017The Good Life is an ‘Enron Email Simulator’ that allows a reader to subscribe to the 500,000 emails that were released in the aftermath of the American Energy company’s 2001 scandal and downfall.
30/11/2016Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.
17/02/2016Superflux are a design and foresight consultancy based in London. Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Arden in 2009, the studio produces prototypes and films that are simultaneously prescient, and playful—and now they can add ‘magazine publisher’ to that list of outputs. A few weeks ago the studio announced the first edition of Superflux, a Warren Ellis-edited periodical that would mutate with each edition. The first issue is a handsome A1 poster expanding on their recent work with drones and the duo has engaged in an interview with CAN about their new project.
20/05/2015This past December a dozen artists, activists, and researchers converged at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for a book sprint. Led by Addie Wagenknecht, the all-women cadre convened under the collective moniker Deep Lab, and examined how privacy, security, surveillance, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society.
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12/06/2009‘36,000 Feet’ is a game where you are playing as a flight passenger coming back from its holidays. You are currently flying over Afghanistan…
Tags: Matthieu Cherubini / metahumans / METAVERSE / politics / tourism / unreal engine / vr
Poetic Computation: Reader is an online-book about code as a form of poetry and aesthetic by Taeyoon Choi. Based on his lectures at the School for Poetic Computation, the book introduces the poetic aspects of computation and considers how engaging technology with this lens can lead to new political possibilities.
A follow-up to the influential 2012 booklet series “Critical Making,” “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” is a new zine by Vancouver-based theorist and educator Garnet Hertz that uses dissent as a lens to survey electronics-based projects and practices.
Tags: Annina Rüst / book / Camille Baumann-Jaeger / critical making / Doug Easterly / Ebru Kurbak / electronics / Garnet Hertz / Institute for Applied Autonomy / Irene Posch / Jaime Carreriro / Jen Liu / Julian Oliver / Matt Kenyon / Paola Antonelli / Pedro G.C. Olivera / politics / publishing / review / Scott Kiddall / Women on Waves / Xuedi Chen / zine
“Queer Games Studies” is a recent collection of thematic essays published by the University of Minnesota Press that schematizes LGBTQ approachs to thinking about – and making – videogames.
Tags: Adrienne Shaw / Amanda Phillips / Anna Antropy / Aubrey Gabel / Bonnie Ruberg / book / culture / Derek A. Burrill / Edmond Y. Chang / gender / Leigh Alexander / LGBTQ / Mattie Brice / media / politics / queerness / Robert Yang / Theory / Todd Harper / University of Minnesota Press / videogames
Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
Tags: Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery / CGI / Columbia GSAPP / drone / exhibition / featured / film / Liam Young / lidar / politics / rendering / review / surveillance / Tim Maughan
Entropic System is a drawing machine that inscribes ornate geometric patterns into a bed of ‘black beauty’ sand. Made by the Denver-based media artist Laleh Mehran the device has instability built-in to it, and creates a feedback loop where approaching it affects its output.
Tags: arduino / Chris Coleman / drawing machine / entropy / geometry / Laleh Mehran / materials / politics / Processing / teensy++
The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
Tags: ai / art / automation / barcelona / bruce sterling / design / Events / Inspiration / installation / media / panel discussion / politics / tickets / UBI
In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
Tags: ai / automation / bruce sterling / design / economics / lecture / politics / silicon valley / sxsw / talk / Theory / UBI
The Good Life is an ‘Enron Email Simulator’ that allows a reader to subscribe to the 500,000 emails that were released in the aftermath of the American Energy company’s 2001 scandal and downfall.
Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.
Tags: automato / design / device / featured / Matthieu Cherubini / network / object / politics / product / Saurabh Datta / Simone Rebaudengo / speculation
Superflux are a design and foresight consultancy based in London. Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Arden in 2009, the studio produces prototypes and films that are simultaneously prescient, and playful—and now they can add ‘magazine publisher’ to that list of outputs. A few weeks ago the studio announced the first edition of Superflux, a Warren Ellis-edited periodical that would mutate with each edition. The first issue is a handsome A1 poster expanding on their recent work with drones and the duo has engaged in an interview with CAN about their new project.
This past December a dozen artists, activists, and researchers converged at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for a book sprint. Led by Addie Wagenknecht, the all-women cadre convened under the collective moniker Deep Lab, and examined how privacy, security, surveillance, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / Allison Burtch / anonymity / book / Claire Evans / data / Denise Caruso / Events / film / Harlo Holmes / Ingrid Burrington / Jen Lowe / Jillian York / Kate Crawford / Lindsay Howard / Lorrie Cranor / Maddy Varner / Maral Pourkazemi / politics / privacy / review / Runa Sandvik / security / society / surveillance
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Tags: advertising / arms / economy / game industry / Games / longread / politics / weapons
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Tags: alex rivera / drones / interview / politics / robotics / science fiction / Theory
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Tags: city / data / hacking / Interactivos? / Medialab-Prado / politics / Science Gallery
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Tags: activism / data / database / documentary / information / installation / politics
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Tags: Android / data / design / disrupted networks / industrial design / internet / Julian Oliver / mapping / networks / open data / politics
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Tags: 3d / data / drawing / politics / polygons / Processing / visualisation