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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…

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• Bookmark What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…

  One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

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• Bookmark Iranian GIF Exhibition Brings Out the Medium’s Sharpest and Silliest

  What does data sound like? There are probably thousands of answers to this question, but whatever the case, most of us can think of a few sounds conventionally used to approximate…

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• Bookmark Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in…

  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

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• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

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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. [...]…

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• 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,…

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• 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…

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• 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…

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• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

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• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

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• Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy

  Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

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  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

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  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

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  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

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  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

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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 What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…

  One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

  January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2014, 10:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2014, 1:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Iranian GIF Exhibition Brings Out the Medium’s Sharpest and Silliest

  What does data sound like? There are probably thousands of answers to this question, but whatever the case, most of us can think of a few sounds conventionally used to approximate…

  June 6 2014, 1:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in…

  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

  April 22 2014, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• 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

• Vimeo

  November 23 2013, 12:32pm | Comments

• Portfolio Glitchometry

  November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2013, 12:01pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Carroll/Fletcher - UBERMORGAN: 'userunfriendly'

  November 1 2013, 7:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 28 2013, 7:18am | 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

• Vimeo

  September 26 2013, 6:59am | 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

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy

  Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

  December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

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