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• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Projects Maja Cule & Dora Budor Interviews for Arcadia Missa

  Understanding phenomena and facticity, creating an art-object for subjects within constellations of agential-realism. There are two absolutes we can never attain. One is freedom and the other is authenticity. These have simultaneously been promised as absolutes; logos, hegemonic since the commodification of identity made…

  November 27 2013, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Secularizing the Tech Debate | Dissent Magazine

  Who Owns the Future?by Jaron Lanier Simon & Schuster, 2013, 396 pp. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Public Affairs, 2013, 415 pp.

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones…

  That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Tim Head: the space between things - Imperica - digital arts and…

  It would be far too simplistic to refer to Tim Head as a multimedia artist.

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen art |…

  There's nothing remarkable about Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt's flat, a fifth-floor apartment on the shady side of a modernist apartment block in Munich's Schwabing district: walking distance to the lush English…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on…

  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Should Gloriously Terrible Movies Like The Room Be Considered 'Outsider Art'? -…

  Given this context, it might be useful to think of Wiseau as something of an outsider artist. Outsider art—also known as visionary art, or art brut— “describes the work of untrained,…

  October 21 2013, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Twitter / a_antonellis: everything this morning reminds ...

  October 1 2013, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now :…

  Recently, a close friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Things I’ve Noticed As I Get Older.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 10 2013, 7:14am | Comments

• Tumblr museumuesum: John Smith Dad’s Stick, 2012 hd video, duration 5...

  August 7 2013, 5:52am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

  July 10 2013, 3:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Conference Panel: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process

  International Conference on Narrative, ‘Narrating Digital Things for Posthuman Ends’ as part of panel, ‘It Shall Have Become: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process’, Manchester Metropolitan University, with Zara Dinnen, Rob Gallagher, Simon Clark, June 26th-29th 2013

  June 26 2013, 8:33am | Comments

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• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Projects Maja Cule & Dora Budor Interviews for Arcadia Missa

  Understanding phenomena and facticity, creating an art-object for subjects within constellations of agential-realism. There are two absolutes we can never attain. One is freedom and the other is authenticity. These have simultaneously been promised as absolutes; logos, hegemonic since the commodification of identity made…

  November 27 2013, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Secularizing the Tech Debate | Dissent Magazine

  Who Owns the Future?by Jaron Lanier Simon & Schuster, 2013, 396 pp. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Public Affairs, 2013, 415 pp.

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones…

  That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Tim Head: the space between things - Imperica - digital arts and…

  It would be far too simplistic to refer to Tim Head as a multimedia artist.

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

  You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen art |…

  There's nothing remarkable about Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt's flat, a fifth-floor apartment on the shady side of a modernist apartment block in Munich's Schwabing district: walking distance to the lush English…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

  November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on…

  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Should Gloriously Terrible Movies Like The Room Be Considered 'Outsider Art'? -…

  Given this context, it might be useful to think of Wiseau as something of an outsider artist. Outsider art—also known as visionary art, or art brut— “describes the work of untrained,…

  October 21 2013, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Modify/hack a Google Hangout "feature": Press to Talk I want to use a Google Hangout "On Air" for a project, but a tiny limitation is getting in the way. I would like to bypass the 'Press to Talk' functionality with a tiny browser script/hack/modification. My programming knowledge is tiny, but I…

  October 1 2013, 7:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Twitter / a_antonellis: everything this morning reminds ...

  October 1 2013, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now :…

  Recently, a close friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Things I’ve Noticed As I Get Older.

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 10 2013, 7:14am | Comments

• Tumblr museumuesum: John Smith Dad’s Stick, 2012 hd video, duration 5...

  August 7 2013, 5:52am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

  July 10 2013, 3:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Conference Panel: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process

  International Conference on Narrative, ‘Narrating Digital Things for Posthuman Ends’ as part of panel, ‘It Shall Have Become: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process’, Manchester Metropolitan University, with Zara Dinnen, Rob Gallagher, Simon Clark, June 26th-29th 2013

  June 26 2013, 8:33am | Comments

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