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• Bookmark How Google’s AI Viewed the Move No Human Could Understand | WIRED

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The move didn’t make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul’s Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently. The…

  March 15 2016, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go | WIRED

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — At first, Fan Hui thought the move was rather odd. But then he saw its beauty. “It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play…

  March 11 2016, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Go Grandmaster Says He’s ‘in Shock’ But Can Still Beat Google’s AI…

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Lee Sedol is rather surprised that Google has fashioned an artificially intelligent system that so skillfully plays the ancient game of Go.

  March 11 2016, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hunt for the Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth | WIRED

  To the computer scientist Leslie Valiant, “machine learning” is redundant. In his opinion, a toddler fumbling with a rubber ball and a deep-learning network classifying cat photos are both learning; calling…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

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  February 27 2016, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…

  In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

  February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments

• Additivism The Distributed Monument: Part of The Download series at Rhizome

  The Distributed MonumentThe Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition.Material Speculation: ISIS/Download Series (King Uthal) by Morehshin Allahyari is the second Download. The 570MB downloadable ZIP file…

  February 16 2016, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unbound: The Politics of Scanning

  There's a great scene in the first episode of House of Cards where the ambitious young journalist Zoe Barnes is sitting on the floor of her rented apartment's living room scanning…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing The Future From Science Fiction - OMNI Reboot

  Sometimes this failure of prediction is even science fiction's explicit subject. In Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series, for instance, a brilliant mathematician devises a method of calculating historical probabilities.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Additivism Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism

  February 13 2016, 4:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans have made so much plastic it will probably show up in…

  Future archeologists aren’t just going to be digging up old bones: Looks like they’re also going to be sifting though old fossilized plastics. For years, scientists have questioned whether or not…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)

  Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

  January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the…

  In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern…

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

• Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…

  In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Portfolio 2016 = The Year of #Additivism

  January 9 2016, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene - The Los Angeles Review…

  IT IS HARD to simply skim through the materials on Amitav Ghosh’s website. The information is bountiful, and the data is incredibly varied, indexing the many dimensions of his oeuvre. One…

  January 9 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Non-human Democracy: in the Anthropocene, it cannot be all about us

  This is part two of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species, and considers how much we might gain from them in thinking…

  January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2016, 7:00am | Comments

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  December 29 2015, 4:14pm | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

  December 29 2015, 11:00am | Comments

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  December 20 2015, 7:47am | Comments

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  December 19 2015, 6:00am | Comments

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  December 12 2015, 9:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Broke Off Neanderthal Sex After Discovering Eurasia

  The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, suggests research detailed online Oct.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of Grand Narratives | Jacobin

  Postmodernists oppose “grand narratives,” and perhaps the “grandest” of all “narratives” was authored by Karl Marx, that of the proletariat taking power and creating a society in which all individuals can…

  November 26 2015, 10:03am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Robots that are Shitty Reddit has a section devoted to robots that are shitty.

  November 22 2015, 5:28am | 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 Art Monthly : Events : The End(s) of Post-Internet Art

  Richard Grayson, Morgan Quaintance & Maria Walsh chaired by Chris McCormack

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology | The Creators…

  Paintings by the masters da Vinci, Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio are often accepted as absolute works. Today, we use mobile devices to capture these images, compressing them onto tiny screens, and…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

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• Bookmark How Google’s AI Viewed the Move No Human Could Understand | WIRED

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The move didn’t make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul’s Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently. The…

  March 15 2016, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go | WIRED

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — At first, Fan Hui thought the move was rather odd. But then he saw its beauty. “It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play…

  March 11 2016, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Go Grandmaster Says He’s ‘in Shock’ But Can Still Beat Google’s AI…

  SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Lee Sedol is rather surprised that Google has fashioned an artificially intelligent system that so skillfully plays the ancient game of Go.

  March 11 2016, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hunt for the Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth | WIRED

  To the computer scientist Leslie Valiant, “machine learning” is redundant. In his opinion, a toddler fumbling with a rubber ball and a deep-learning network classifying cat photos are both learning; calling…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 27 2016, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…

  In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

  February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments

• Additivism The Distributed Monument: Part of The Download series at Rhizome

  The Distributed MonumentThe Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition.Material Speculation: ISIS/Download Series (King Uthal) by Morehshin Allahyari is the second Download. The 570MB downloadable ZIP file…

  February 16 2016, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unbound: The Politics of Scanning

  There's a great scene in the first episode of House of Cards where the ambitious young journalist Zoe Barnes is sitting on the floor of her rented apartment's living room scanning…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing The Future From Science Fiction - OMNI Reboot

  Sometimes this failure of prediction is even science fiction's explicit subject. In Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series, for instance, a brilliant mathematician devises a method of calculating historical probabilities.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Additivism Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism

  February 13 2016, 4:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans have made so much plastic it will probably show up in…

  Future archeologists aren’t just going to be digging up old bones: Looks like they’re also going to be sifting though old fossilized plastics. For years, scientists have questioned whether or not…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)

  Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

  January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the…

  In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern…

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

• Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…

  In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Portfolio 2016 = The Year of #Additivism

  January 9 2016, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene - The Los Angeles Review…

  IT IS HARD to simply skim through the materials on Amitav Ghosh’s website. The information is bountiful, and the data is incredibly varied, indexing the many dimensions of his oeuvre. One…

  January 9 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Non-human Democracy: in the Anthropocene, it cannot be all about us

  This is part two of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species, and considers how much we might gain from them in thinking…

  January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2016, 7:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 29 2015, 4:14pm | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

  December 29 2015, 11:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 20 2015, 7:47am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 19 2015, 6:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 12 2015, 9:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Broke Off Neanderthal Sex After Discovering Eurasia

  The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, suggests research detailed online Oct.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Defense of Grand Narratives | Jacobin

  Postmodernists oppose “grand narratives,” and perhaps the “grandest” of all “narratives” was authored by Karl Marx, that of the proletariat taking power and creating a society in which all individuals can…

  November 26 2015, 10:03am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Robots that are Shitty Reddit has a section devoted to robots that are shitty.

  November 22 2015, 5:28am | 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 Art Monthly : Events : The End(s) of Post-Internet Art

  Richard Grayson, Morgan Quaintance & Maria Walsh chaired by Chris McCormack

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology | The Creators…

  Paintings by the masters da Vinci, Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio are often accepted as absolute works. Today, we use mobile devices to capture these images, compressing them onto tiny screens, and…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

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