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• Bookmark sarah howorka | average-face-mirror - interactive installation

  this mirror displays an average of all the faces it has seen.

  January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments

• Bookmark What digital trash dumped in games tells us about the players |…

  A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack |…

  Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. In the mid-’90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world’s top player at the game of checkers. Three years later, to much…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• Additivism From A – Z: Abracadabra to ZombiesA to Z: Abracadabra to...

  From A – Z: Abracadabra to Zombies A to Z: Abracadabra to Zombies currently on display at the Pollock Gallery is a phantasmagoria of the now, with our own neuroses as specter.  Here, YouTube rabbit-holes have become otherworldly and the Internet is the stage…

  October 12 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Hurtcore Porn and the Dark Web: Why We Need an Ethics of…

  In a famous scene from the original Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum), is lunching with John Hammond. They are discussing the ethics of building a theme park of…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Sophisticated AI Can’t Always Tell a Parrot from a Cat |…

  Samim Winiger spends a lot of his time playing around with neural networks, primitive artificial brains trained to autonomously run through algorithms for some kind of output, whether image recognition or…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Man sexually attracted to playground equipment banned from anywhere with a slide…

  Christopher Johnson, aged 46, of St Osburg's Road in Stoke, was arrested after simulating a sex act with a slide at Stoke Green Park in Coventry. It's his second slide-related offence.

  October 3 2015, 10:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

  Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

  September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark POSTGENDER GARMENT CONSTRUCTION - Blog - Robot: Other

  If Baudrillard observed the disappearance of tools adapted to the human form in favour of the button[1], we will observe the disappearance of the button in favour of fully-automatic predictive operation…

  June 25 2015, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

  May 25 2015, 9:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 21 2015, 1:24pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 14 2015, 8:35am | Comments

• 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 Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark How Photography's 'Decisive Moment' Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality |…

  Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it.

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | 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

• Bookmark Second Life Real Estate Purchase Goes Horribly Wrong

  Second Life has always been one of the strangest virtual spaces. It's an odd mixture of totally earnest role players, professional sellers and weird-as-hell trolls. And buying or selling something in…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 22 2014, 4:32pm | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism | The White Review

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

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• Bookmark sarah howorka | average-face-mirror - interactive installation

  this mirror displays an average of all the faces it has seen.

  January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments

• Bookmark What digital trash dumped in games tells us about the players |…

  A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack |…

  Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. In the mid-’90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world’s top player at the game of checkers. Three years later, to much…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• Additivism From A – Z: Abracadabra to ZombiesA to Z: Abracadabra to...

  From A – Z: Abracadabra to Zombies A to Z: Abracadabra to Zombies currently on display at the Pollock Gallery is a phantasmagoria of the now, with our own neuroses as specter.  Here, YouTube rabbit-holes have become otherworldly and the Internet is the stage…

  October 12 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Hurtcore Porn and the Dark Web: Why We Need an Ethics of…

  In a famous scene from the original Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum), is lunching with John Hammond. They are discussing the ethics of building a theme park of…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Sophisticated AI Can’t Always Tell a Parrot from a Cat |…

  Samim Winiger spends a lot of his time playing around with neural networks, primitive artificial brains trained to autonomously run through algorithms for some kind of output, whether image recognition or…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Man sexually attracted to playground equipment banned from anywhere with a slide…

  Christopher Johnson, aged 46, of St Osburg's Road in Stoke, was arrested after simulating a sex act with a slide at Stoke Green Park in Coventry. It's his second slide-related offence.

  October 3 2015, 10:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

  Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

  September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck? – Dan Falk…

  In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark POSTGENDER GARMENT CONSTRUCTION - Blog - Robot: Other

  If Baudrillard observed the disappearance of tools adapted to the human form in favour of the button[1], we will observe the disappearance of the button in favour of fully-automatic predictive operation…

  June 25 2015, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

  May 25 2015, 9:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 21 2015, 1:24pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 14 2015, 8:35am | Comments

• 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 Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark How Photography's 'Decisive Moment' Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality |…

  Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it.

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | 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

• Bookmark Second Life Real Estate Purchase Goes Horribly Wrong

  Second Life has always been one of the strangest virtual spaces. It's an odd mixture of totally earnest role players, professional sellers and weird-as-hell trolls. And buying or selling something in…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 22 2014, 4:32pm | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism | The White Review

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

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