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  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

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  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark digital divide: contemporary art and new media - artforum.com / in print

  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

  September 4 2012, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Why contemporary art fails to come to grips with digital. A response…

  This month, Art Forum published a very timely, and beautifully written essay by Claire Bishop entitled, Digital Divide: on contemporary Art and New Media“. In it, Bishop analyses the contemporary art-world’s…

  September 4 2012, 5:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

• Bibliography After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Screen Cultures: German Film and the… by Lutz Koepnick

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)

  To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

  May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter

  With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

  May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history

  As paper and dyes deteriorate, acetate degenerates, and the minute magnetic flux recorded in analog tape fades with the ages, how do we preserve cultural artifacts like photographs, music, and film?…

  May 21 2012, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | 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 Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

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  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

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  March 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Flickr The Glitch Moment(um) by Rosa Menkman

  February 3 2012, 8:25am | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Transmediale 2012 Field Trip

  February 1 2012, 3:54am | Comments

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  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark digital divide: contemporary art and new media - artforum.com / in print

  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

  September 4 2012, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Why contemporary art fails to come to grips with digital. A response…

  This month, Art Forum published a very timely, and beautifully written essay by Claire Bishop entitled, Digital Divide: on contemporary Art and New Media“. In it, Bishop analyses the contemporary art-world’s…

  September 4 2012, 5:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron

  The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

  June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses

  Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

  May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

• Bibliography After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Screen Cultures: German Film and the… by Lutz Koepnick

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)

  To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

  May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter

  With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

  May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history

  As paper and dyes deteriorate, acetate degenerates, and the minute magnetic flux recorded in analog tape fades with the ages, how do we preserve cultural artifacts like photographs, music, and film?…

  May 21 2012, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | 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 Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 7 2012, 2:24am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Flickr The Glitch Moment(um) by Rosa Menkman

  February 3 2012, 8:25am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Transmediale 2012 Field Trip

  February 1 2012, 3:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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