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• Twitter

  As a noun, it means form, figure, configuration, but as an adjective, artificial, fabricated, factitious and finally, enchanted.

  March 11 2013, 7:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 13 2012, 3:09pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2012, 4:39pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | 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 Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Island…

  January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

  November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There Too Much Exposition in Games?

  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

  October 7 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Video…

  June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments

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• Twitter

  As a noun, it means form, figure, configuration, but as an adjective, artificial, fabricated, factitious and finally, enchanted.

  March 11 2013, 7:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC’

  October 11 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 13 2012, 3:09pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2012, 4:39pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | 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 Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data

  Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

  March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Island…

  January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

  November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There Too Much Exposition in Games?

  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

  October 7 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Video…

  June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments

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