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• Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories

  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

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• Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg

  I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

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• Bookmark As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’…

  WASHINGTON — As a teenager, Keoni Gandall already was operating a cutting-edge research laboratory in his bedroom in Huntington Beach, Calif.

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Bookmark We Need To Do A Better Job Of Imagining Aliens – Adam…

  When imagining civilizations on other worlds, we tend to stick to the familiar. Aliens in the popular imagination are not all that different from us — they often have eyes and ears, walk…

  April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea

  An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

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• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

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• Bookmark Will Wiles: "Let's save some of the Whitechapel Fatberg"

  In 1965, American sculptor Claes Oldenburg proposed an object of quite unforgettable brute simplicity for New York City. Oldenburg may be best known today for his cuddly "soft sculptures" and monumental…

  September 27 2017, 1:27am | Comments

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• Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…

  There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

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• Bookmark Collective Cuts: Introducing the Age of Collage | AnOther

  “I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own,” Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once wrote, wisely demonstrating that cutting and pasting from pop culture always makes for more…

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• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

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• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  December 14 2016, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…

  Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

  December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED

  On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 15 Driver Behaviours In A World of Autonomous Mobility — Hidden in…

  These are the behaviours and practices that will mainstream in our self-driving urban landscape. Inspired by a session with an automotive client, and a follow up of the popular 12 Concept…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: music video design

  Every time I teach at an artschool in Europe I notice that the students are not actively following what is happening in pop music video cultures - there seems to be some kind of taboo. So I had…

  April 20 2016, 12:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science

  Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

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• Bookmark Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible | Popular Science

  In my life as a curator, only twice have a pair of eyes in an artwork ever really mesmerized me. The first pair gazed out from a painting by German surrealist…

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  August 1 2018, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories

  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg

  I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’…

  WASHINGTON — As a teenager, Keoni Gandall already was operating a cutting-edge research laboratory in his bedroom in Huntington Beach, Calif.

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Bookmark We Need To Do A Better Job Of Imagining Aliens – Adam…

  When imagining civilizations on other worlds, we tend to stick to the familiar. Aliens in the popular imagination are not all that different from us — they often have eyes and ears, walk…

  April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea

  An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

  March 17 2018, 12:09pm | Comments

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  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

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  November 3 2017, 5:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

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  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will Wiles: "Let's save some of the Whitechapel Fatberg"

  In 1965, American sculptor Claes Oldenburg proposed an object of quite unforgettable brute simplicity for New York City. Oldenburg may be best known today for his cuddly "soft sculptures" and monumental…

  September 27 2017, 1:27am | Comments

• Additivism Sight + Sound Festival - Eastern Bloc, Montreal (exhibition)

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter

  protect your buried treasure from the world's most popular zebra

  

  July 31 2017, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…

  There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Collective Cuts: Introducing the Age of Collage | AnOther

  “I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own,” Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once wrote, wisely demonstrating that cutting and pasting from pop culture always makes for more…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

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  May 1 2017, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

  April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments

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  April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments

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  March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  December 14 2016, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…

  Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

  December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED

  On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 15 Driver Behaviours In A World of Autonomous Mobility — Hidden in…

  These are the behaviours and practices that will mainstream in our self-driving urban landscape. Inspired by a session with an automotive client, and a follow up of the popular 12 Concept…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: music video design

  Every time I teach at an artschool in Europe I notice that the students are not actively following what is happening in pop music video cultures - there seems to be some kind of taboo. So I had…

  April 20 2016, 12:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science

  Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

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  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible | Popular Science

  In my life as a curator, only twice have a pair of eyes in an artwork ever really mesmerized me. The first pair gazed out from a painting by German surrealist…

  January 30 2016, 3:34am | Comments

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