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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Don't mess with Texas's old computers

  April 22 2013, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  This Hoarder's House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

  February 23 2012, 2:50pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

  The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

  May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything

  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

  February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Boris Groys, Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction

  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 currently…

  October 17 2010, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism

  Parasites commonly manipulate host behaviour, and among the most dramatic examples are diverse fungi that cause insects to die attached to leaves. This death-grip behaviour functions to place insects in an…

  August 19 2010, 8:40am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

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

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Don't mess with Texas's old computers

  April 22 2013, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  This Hoarder's House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

  February 23 2012, 2:50pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

  The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

  May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything

  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

  February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Boris Groys, Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction

  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 currently…

  October 17 2010, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

  I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

  September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism

  Parasites commonly manipulate host behaviour, and among the most dramatic examples are diverse fungi that cause insects to die attached to leaves. This death-grip behaviour functions to place insects in an…

  August 19 2010, 8:40am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

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

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

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