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To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments

Twitter Links Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

During the late 1990s, when the internet first boomed, we talked a lot about creative destruction — about how old businesses would collapse, making…

March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

Link How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

“When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station…

March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

Twitter Links How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author's real name and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ.…

March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

Link Our Emergent Digital Future

What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

Twitter Links Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

"Entropy requires no maintenance. Entropy has its own poetry."

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

Link Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or…

There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

Link Content For Users on the Move

What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

Citations The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet… Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf…

April 13 2011, 8:24am | Comments

Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

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Link B.S.Johnson - Albert Angelo

Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933–1973). Published in 1964, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as…

February 16 2011, 6:59am | Comments

Link Museum finds the only painting of the Antarctic…

In preparing paintings for the exhibition, the head of oil painting conservation noticed usual things about some of them, prompting her to X-ray, among others, 'A view of Pickersgill Harbour,…

February 16 2011, 6:58am | Comments

Link Open Media (lecture series schedule)

The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge…

February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

Link Alvin Lucier: I am Sitting in a Room

"I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it…

February 16 2011, 6:48am | Comments

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January 17 2011, 5:45am | Comments

Link The Novel is not under threat from technology

One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments

Link Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You

It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism…

January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments

Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

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December 2 2010, 10:11am | Comments

Citations Error : glitch, noise, and jam in new media cultures Type Book Author Mark Nunes Place New York Publisher Continuum ISBN 9781441121202…

November 26 2010, 4:18am | Comments

Link UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th…

"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history…

November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments

Link In Defense of the Poor Image

by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image,…

October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

Link Error in apparatus as aesthetic value

by Alejandro Schianchi An error seems to be that which gets between the ideal being and the real being; the error appears to be a singularity, a Non-being that transforms…

October 26 2010, 2:52am | Comments

Link Do writers need paper?

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the…

October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: What techniques do you use to make… What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

October 11 2010, 8:24pm | Comments

Link Planet Zoo

Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments

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September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

Link …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

[in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s…

September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

Link Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result…

September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's…

September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

Link Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp…

September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

Link Cover story

In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the…

September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

Link Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

“It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to…

August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

Link The internet: is it changing the way we…

Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

Link The Web Means the End of Forgetting

When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments

Link "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last…

July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

Link Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the…

July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments

Link Essay: Technology changes how art is created and…

It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an…

July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred…

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

Link As technology advances, deep reading suffers

Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages,…

June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola…

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

Link Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces

by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though…

May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments

Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

Link Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm -…

...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in…

April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of…

April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

Link How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

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