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Writing Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl
The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Breaks, 24th May

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Miscellanous Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of…

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Link Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the…

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GLTI.CH Karaoke Gli.tc/h Amsterdam Retrospective
Clips and noises courtesy of Anthony Antonellis – See you all in Birmingham, Saturday 19th from 3pm!

November 17 2011, 1:58am | Comments
Link YooouuuTuuube
Create your own trip in sound and animation using YouTube video clips (this one features Alice in Wonderland)

July 19 2011, 4:15pm | Comments
Link Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Link Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition…
by Hito Steyerl A standard way of relating politics to art assumes that art represents political issues in one way or another. But there is a much more interesting perspective:…

June 11 2011, 8:19am | Comments
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Link Infinite Glitch.com
Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is…

March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments
Link Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety…

March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
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Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments
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Link Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium…

January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments
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Link Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat
Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's…

November 25 2010, 3:36am | 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 Boris Groys, Religion in the Age of Digital…
The general consensus of the contemporary mass media is that the return of religion has emerged as the most important factor in global politics and culture today. Now, those who…

October 17 2010, 12:22pm | Comments
Link Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film
What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like…

September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Link Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage)
Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts…

September 28 2010, 7:00am | Comments
Link SAME HAT! (tumblr)
For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features…

August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments
Link The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata
The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about…

July 22 2010, 10:01pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred…

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
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Link Are video games the next great art form?
Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why…

June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments
Link Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead
Two reports of chimpanzees tending their dead provide poignant examples of how humanity’s closest relatives grieve for the dead, a behavior once thought unique to humans. In one report, two…

April 27 2010, 6:58am | Comments
Link On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"
Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why…

April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments
Link Video games can never be art
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of…

April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments
Link Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Link Time
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February 10 2010, 12:33pm | Comments
Link Art Fag City » The Best of Web…
Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their…

January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the…

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Link Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic…
The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the…

December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments
Link Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out…

December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments
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December 8 2009, 12:12pm | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Link IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever
Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris…

November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments
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Link -R-G-B-
WARNING! THIS LINK HAS BRIGHT FLASHING COLORS. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES

October 16 2009, 7:59am | Comments
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Link lose/lose
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien,…

October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments
Link Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation…
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Link in Bb 2.0
In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played…

September 14 2009, 8:37am | Comments
Link GOOD COPY BAD COPY
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments
Link The Man Who Eats Badgers
To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel,…

August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

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