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The ENCODE delusion

September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
Instagram Art of Change: works are by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, including a column made…

September 11 2012, 4:18am | Comments
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Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments
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the gift, the artist, and the net

September 8 2012, 6:03am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments
Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments
Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter
Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

August 7 2012, 12:24am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments
Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments
Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION
To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen
In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments
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July 11 2012, 1:57am | Comments
Bookmark How to write in the digital age
There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments
Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution
Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments
Bookmark Algorithm beats jigsaw-solving record
We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

June 27 2012, 3:29pm | Comments
Bookmark Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em
About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark How Going Viral Has Changed Art
In a time when likes, reblogs, and favorites determine what gets seen and what doesn’t, all cultural products, movies, music, writing, and visual art alike, exist in an economy of attention.…

June 15 2012, 5:27am | Comments
Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise
Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments
Bookmark Pirate Radical Philosophy
Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does…

June 15 2012, 5:17am | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark Buy an Underground Kingdom
As most anyone who's seen me give a talk over the past few years will know, I have a tendency to over-enthuse about the DIY subterranean excavations of William Lyttle, aka…

June 6 2012, 2:41am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Are there "fakes" in digital art?
The History of Art is filled with forgeries, but are there fakes in digital art fields made from creative cut-and-pastes, collaborative works and infinite works? We approached four people who, pondering…

May 23 2012, 9:37am | Comments

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