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  Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on.

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  A conversation on a 1996 Internet newsgroup questioned the existence of science-fiction reading protocols. Up to that point I hadn't thought they needed explanation, since they seemed self-evident when Samuel R.…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark Mario Has Become Self-Aware | Motherboard

  "If I jump on a Goomba, it certainly dies," responds Mario in his new robo-voice. As the video explains, however, this demonstration is about content, not form. It's actually about quite…

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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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• 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…

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• Bookmark What Power Do Images Have in Our Society?

  While visiting a sci-fi and comics convention in Toronto recently, I found myself drawn inexorably toward the sound of gunfire, explosions, and grunts of agony and triumph.

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• Bookmark Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? - Scientific American

  Could cancer be our cells’ way of running in “safe mode,” like a damaged computer operating system trying to preserve itself, when faced with an external threat? That’s the conclusion reached…

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• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

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• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

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• 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,…

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• GIFbites Taking a Selfie While Being Shot in the Back by Alex Myers /...

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• Bookmark Takeshi Murata Made An Animated Sculpture That Melts Into Itself | The…

  This past weekend, digital-art impresario Takeshi Murata premiered new work at gallery Ratio 3's space at the Frieze art fair.

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  The Shimmering World conference at Manchester University, which took place 24 April, saw artists and academics come together to share the same stage, with speakers including David Panos, Tamara Trodd, Melissa…

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  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,…

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• Bookmark After Reading Exits to the Posthuman Future by Arthur Kroker | noir…

  It’s as if the future presents itself now as a gigantic simulacrum of the recycled remnants of all that which was left unfinished by the coming-to-be of the technological dynamo –…

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  Craig Venter is scientist/entrepreneur and founded the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization that announced in May 2010 they had successfully constructed the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial…

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• Bookmark Einstein’s Camera  — Matter — Medium

  ADAM MAGYAR IS A computer geek, a college dropout, a self-taught photographer, a high-tech Rube Goldberg, a world traveler, and a conceptual artist of growing global acclaim.

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• Bookmark Resolved: GIFs Are Actually Important - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

  There's something silly about GIFs. Perhaps it's the smell of the early, weird web. Or maybe it's in the nature of the loop itself. Or perhaps we think that such short…

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• Bookmark The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human | e-flux

  Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of…

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• Bookmark Scientists say all the world’s data can fit on a DNA hard…

  Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on.

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Protocols of Science Fiction

  A conversation on a 1996 Internet newsgroup questioned the existence of science-fiction reading protocols. Up to that point I hadn't thought they needed explanation, since they seemed self-evident when Samuel R.…

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | 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 Mario Has Become Self-Aware | Motherboard

  "If I jump on a Goomba, it certainly dies," responds Mario in his new robo-voice. As the video explains, however, this demonstration is about content, not form. It's actually about quite…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 26 2015, 12:26pm | 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

  December 1 2014, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What Power Do Images Have in Our Society?

  While visiting a sci-fi and comics convention in Toronto recently, I found myself drawn inexorably toward the sound of gunfire, explosions, and grunts of agony and triumph.

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? - Scientific American

  Could cancer be our cells’ way of running in “safe mode,” like a damaged computer operating system trying to preserve itself, when faced with an external threat? That’s the conclusion reached…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Instagram Selfie with Doge

  September 8 2014, 7:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | 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

• Twitter

  History involved itself.

  

  June 17 2014, 1:47am | Comments

• GIFbites Taking a Selfie While Being Shot in the Back by Alex Myers /...

  May 30 2014, 9:45am | Comments

• GIFbites ‘ashamed of her monstrous form, the beast concealed...

  May 27 2014, 2:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Takeshi Murata Made An Animated Sculpture That Melts Into Itself | The…

  This past weekend, digital-art impresario Takeshi Murata premiered new work at gallery Ratio 3's space at the Frieze art fair.

  May 21 2014, 1:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark Shimmering World Conference, by Shama Khanna / Art Review

  The Shimmering World conference at Manchester University, which took place 24 April, saw artists and academics come together to share the same stage, with speakers including David Panos, Tamara Trodd, Melissa…

  May 7 2014, 4:15am | 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

• Vimeo

  April 30 2014, 12:39am | Comments

• Bookmark After Reading Exits to the Posthuman Future by Arthur Kroker | noir…

  It’s as if the future presents itself now as a gigantic simulacrum of the recycled remnants of all that which was left unfinished by the coming-to-be of the technological dynamo –…

  April 2 2014, 5:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Faxing' Life from Mars: Craig Venter's Wild, Digital Space Exploration Idea |…

  Craig Venter is scientist/entrepreneur and founded the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization that announced in May 2010 they had successfully constructed the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial…

  March 4 2014, 10:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Einstein’s Camera  — Matter — Medium

  ADAM MAGYAR IS A computer geek, a college dropout, a self-taught photographer, a high-tech Rube Goldberg, a world traveler, and a conceptual artist of growing global acclaim.

  March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Resolved: GIFs Are Actually Important - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

  There's something silly about GIFs. Perhaps it's the smell of the early, weird web. Or maybe it's in the nature of the loop itself. Or perhaps we think that such short…

  March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human | e-flux

  Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 31 2014, 5:06pm | Comments

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