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• 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

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds

  As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | 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 Computers Wrote the Caption for This Photograph, and Changed Everything

  Computers at Google now have a machine-learning system that can analyze images like the one above and generate captions for them. The phrase used to caption this image? "A person riding…

  November 24 2014, 3:54pm | 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

• Twitter

  Everything I know about sexual politics I learnt from white dude art.

  

  November 12 2014, 2:22am | Comments

• Bookmark If This Toaster Could Talk - The Atlantic

  Narratives in the age of the smart object The cultural conversation about the Internet of things has tended toward a highly functionalist, utilitarian set of ideas: Connected objects can make smart…

  November 3 2014, 9:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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  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

• Bibliography The Things by Peter

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the…

  We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind. Not just regular old things—spent notebooks, obsolete consumer electronics, whatever—but big things that happen to be old.

  October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark COMPUTER VIRUS CATALOG

  About the project They steal our files, corrupt our hard drives and destroy our lives. We scan. We block. Do everything we can to prevent infection. Computer viruses. We hate 'em.…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark One Way To Make Some YouTube Videos Way Creepier

  The code that puts a first-person-shooter avatar and reticule on top of random uploaded videos doesn't appear to be publicly available. That's probably a good thing because it makes everything much…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 29 2014, 3:33pm | 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

• YouTube

  August 26 2014, 12:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  But moving everything to the deep web might take a while

  

  August 22 2014, 3:16am | 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 I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com

  After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share…

  July 12 2014, 2:25am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2014, 1:51am | 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 Alexandra Lange on 3D printers versus the sewing machine

  In March, Slate Magazine's Seth Stevenson provided a public service when he borrowed a Solidoodle 4, pitched as the "accessible", "affordable" 3D printer, and attempted to print a bottle opener from…

  May 14 2014, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

  May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chessmate

  LONDON — It was Game 8 of the World Chess Championship, and the four-time winner and defending champion, 42-year-old Viswanathan Anand of India, playing white, was a game down to the…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | 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

• Bookmark Drowning Simulator Is The Worst Game I Have Ever Played

  I hate being in the ocean. Shallow beaches, I can handle, but the deep sea terrifies me more than spiders, snakes and birds who can talk put together. So a game…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds

  As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | 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 Computers Wrote the Caption for This Photograph, and Changed Everything

  Computers at Google now have a machine-learning system that can analyze images like the one above and generate captions for them. The phrase used to caption this image? "A person riding…

  November 24 2014, 3:54pm | 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

• Twitter

  Everything I know about sexual politics I learnt from white dude art.

  

  November 12 2014, 2:22am | Comments

• Bookmark If This Toaster Could Talk - The Atlantic

  Narratives in the age of the smart object The cultural conversation about the Internet of things has tended toward a highly functionalist, utilitarian set of ideas: Connected objects can make smart…

  November 3 2014, 9:08am | 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

• Bibliography The Things by Peter

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the…

  We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind. Not just regular old things—spent notebooks, obsolete consumer electronics, whatever—but big things that happen to be old.

  October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark COMPUTER VIRUS CATALOG

  About the project They steal our files, corrupt our hard drives and destroy our lives. We scan. We block. Do everything we can to prevent infection. Computer viruses. We hate 'em.…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark One Way To Make Some YouTube Videos Way Creepier

  The code that puts a first-person-shooter avatar and reticule on top of random uploaded videos doesn't appear to be publicly available. That's probably a good thing because it makes everything much…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 29 2014, 3:33pm | 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

• YouTube

  August 26 2014, 12:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  But moving everything to the deep web might take a while

  

  August 22 2014, 3:16am | 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 I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com

  After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share…

  July 12 2014, 2:25am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2014, 1:51am | 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 Alexandra Lange on 3D printers versus the sewing machine

  In March, Slate Magazine's Seth Stevenson provided a public service when he borrowed a Solidoodle 4, pitched as the "accessible", "affordable" 3D printer, and attempted to print a bottle opener from…

  May 14 2014, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

  May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chessmate

  LONDON — It was Game 8 of the World Chess Championship, and the four-time winner and defending champion, 42-year-old Viswanathan Anand of India, playing white, was a game down to the…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | 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

• Bookmark Drowning Simulator Is The Worst Game I Have Ever Played

  I hate being in the ocean. Shallow beaches, I can handle, but the deep sea terrifies me more than spiders, snakes and birds who can talk put together. So a game…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

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