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Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…
LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark How Does Glitch Art Reflect Society? - DailyBreadMag
21.10.2016 We are living in the digital era, no doubt. Everything is going digital lately, so it’s no surprise to also see the growth of the digital art sphere. Today let’s…

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments
Bookmark The AI that writes articles for you is now available for testing
Automated Insights has opened up beta access to Wordsmith, its platform for automating repetitive, time-consuming writing tasks using your data.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism
In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments
Bookmark Type Your Own Animated Movie With This Crazy Software | Co.Design |…
Here’s how Hollywood works today: Somebody writes a script. And especially if it’s an animated feature--a piece that will take hundreds of Pixar artists years to produce--there’s almost no chance it…

November 25 2013, 2:12am | Comments
Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Projects HARDCORE SOFTWARE : PIRACY TODAY
Hardcore Software presents Piracy Today, a platform for actions an interventions that challenge our dominant cultural order. The pilot exhibition presents work by four artists and practitioners who use piracy to interrogate patterns of cultural transmission. http://hardcoresoftware.org/ Wednesday 28 August 2013 | 6-10pm Open…

September 7 2013, 6:24am | Comments
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Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter
Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments
Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments
Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Sloppy MicroChips: Oh, that’s near enough
Letting microchips make a few mistakes here and there could make them much faster and more energy-efficient. Managing the probability of errors and limiting where they occur can ensure that the…

June 5 2012, 9:18am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark 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 that…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments
Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark The interface and the machine
Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense quantity…

January 10 2011, 3:53am | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments
Bookmark Big Ball of Mud
The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British designer…

July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy
by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments
Bookmark Simon Biggs
Website and interactive portfolio of artist

January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments

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