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  In the first chapter of his book, After Photography, digital photography theorist Fred Ritchin explains the central selling point of digital over analog: Digital is based on an architecture of infinitely…

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

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

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  The Surrealists’ ideal state for making art was the twilight between wakefulness and sleep, when they would dredge up images from the murky subconscious and throw them onto the page or…

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  No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world.

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  I have come to my favorite café (which has very fast Wi-Fi) and ordered a coffee.

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  Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil famously and accurately predicted that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, that technologies that help spread information would accelerate the collapse…

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  Steven Levy writes in Wired on the unexpected turn of the Artificial Intelligence revolution: rather than whole artificial minds, it consists of a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would…

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  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

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  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

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  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

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  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

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  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

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  In Luc Besson’s sci-fi classic The Fifth Element (1997), the "veryperfect" future human is reverse engineered from a severed hand.

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  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

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  Chou Chun-hsun, one of the world's top players of the ancient game of Go, sat hunched over a board covered with a grid of closely spaced lines. To the untrained eye,…

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  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

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• Bookmark The Triumphant Rise of the Shitpic - The Awl

  In the first chapter of his book, After Photography, digital photography theorist Fred Ritchin explains the central selling point of digital over analog: Digital is based on an architecture of infinitely…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Bruce Willis, Irigaray, and the Aesthetics of Space Travel | Mute

  'Or for instance, if you were crushed to death by hundreds of boxes of chocolate....

  December 10 2014, 2:01am | 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

• Vimeo

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• YouTube

  November 22 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”…

  The Surrealists’ ideal state for making art was the twilight between wakefulness and sleep, when they would dredge up images from the murky subconscious and throw them onto the page or…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 26 2014, 11:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  something has appeared or happened

  

  October 13 2014, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online |…

  No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world.

  October 13 2014, 11:28am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google is Destroying the Act of Reading – Tablet Magazine

  I have come to my favorite café (which has very fast Wi-Fi) and ordered a coffee.

  October 11 2014, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn’t worried about climate change | Need to Know…

  Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil famously and accurately predicted that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, that technologies that help spread information would accelerate the collapse…

  October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Wild Systems « NextNature.net

  Steven Levy writes in Wired on the unexpected turn of the Artificial Intelligence revolution: rather than whole artificial minds, it consists of a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | Digital Handwork

  In Luc Besson’s sci-fi classic The Fifth Element (1997), the "veryperfect" future human is reverse engineered from a severed hand.

  July 14 2014, 1:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bookmark AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? - IEEE Spectrum

  Chou Chun-hsun, one of the world's top players of the ancient game of Go, sat hunched over a board covered with a grid of closely spaced lines. To the untrained eye,…

  July 12 2014, 2:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2014, 1:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2014, 1:00pm | 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 Game Theory Makes New Predictions for Evolution | Simons Foundation

  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

  June 18 2014, 2:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark NIH 3D Print Exchange | A collection of biomedical 3D printable files…

  The Exchange is proud to be a featured exhibit at the 2014 USA Science and Festival. In honor of the occasion, we've made our "beta" site public, so visitors to the…

  June 9 2014, 5:28am | Comments

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