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• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test - NYTimes.com

  Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities. Cognoscenti including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have recently weighed in on its potential…

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

  January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

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  September 29 2014, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Ray Kurzweil is Wrong: Computers Won’t Be Smarter Than Us Anytime…

  “When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

  December 11 2013, 3:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on…

  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

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  Dogs Are People, Too - NYTimes.com

  October 6 2013, 2:55pm | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark Pecking Order - NYTimes.com

  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

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• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test - NYTimes.com

  Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities. Cognoscenti including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have recently weighed in on its potential…

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

  January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 29 2014, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Ray Kurzweil is Wrong: Computers Won’t Be Smarter Than Us Anytime…

  “When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gray Zone | The Nation

  If there is one issue in contemporary life that supposedly defines the progressive nature of liberal societies, it is gay rights. Over the past half-century, most of the world’s Western democracies…

  December 11 2013, 3:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine

  The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on…

  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Dogs Are People, Too - NYTimes.com

  October 6 2013, 2:55pm | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark Pecking Order - NYTimes.com

  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

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