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Bookmark Anatomy of an AI System
A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is…

February 26 2023, 1:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World | CCCB LAB
The term terraforming refers to the transformation of the ecosystems of other planets or satellites to enable them to support Earth-like life.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Not So Super, Mario.. I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came……
I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came out, and I’m 22 now on its rerelease. There was all sorts of confusion before it came out, about what really was the…

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache aplusa.org
Call us Sara and Deb or Debbie, respectively, both she/her. sara.hendren@olin.edu / debbie.chachra@olin.edu Sara’s office hours are here, updated regularly. Deb’s office hours are by appointment.

September 9 2020, 7:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker
“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments
Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

February 23 2020, 12:37pm | Comments
Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review
Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments
Bookmark Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners | Cities…
We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the…

March 9 2019, 8:51pm | Comments
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April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments
Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint
In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks
Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Envisioning a future in which gynecology doesn’t have a ‘father’
J. Marion Sims has been known as the “father of gynecology” for centuries. Now, four San Francisco-based designers are hoping to change that. About a year ago, Hailey Stewart went for…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Additivism Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

September 20 2017, 6:26am | Comments
Bookmark The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. We became accustomed to the idea of buttons to tap on screens and swipes that moved content right or left. We…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Stories - The Atlantic
Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative? A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Additivism Centre Pompidou: quand les artistes impriment le monde en 3D «...

March 16 2017, 5:34am | Comments
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March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments
Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar
Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…
Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments
Bookmark A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years
Consider a wanderer 10,000 years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite thorns in the New Mexico desert, their points weathered by centuries, their shadows stretching at sinister angles.

September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark On Speculative Design | Benjamin H. Bratton «DIS Magazine
Benjamin Bratton on Speculative Design, an alternative to mainstream Design that complicates the speculative models that underscore our global economy.

June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments
Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement | Next Nature Network
We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and…

April 22 2016, 3:34am | Comments
Facebook Cache list: music video design
Every time I teach at an artschool in Europe I notice that the students are not actively following what is happening in pop music video cultures - there seems to be some kind of taboo. So I had…

April 20 2016, 12:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons for the Disabled - The Atlantic
Last year, a man in an exoskeleton kicked off the Men’s World Cup. Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old from Brazil, was outfitted by a team of scientists from the Walk Again Project…

April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments
Bookmark Afrofuturism and Outsider Tech
When we think about technology, most of us realize that it includes more than just gadgets and robotics, or the images of rockets and spaceships that filled 20th-century science fiction.

April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments
Bookmark An Artist Has Made A Primitive Computer Out Of Earth Crystals, And…
German artist Ralf Baecker gives technology a life of its own. His new piece Irrational Computing, which debuts International Triennial of New Media Art, use semiconductor crystals (quartz sand) and connects…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Tumblr Virus trading cards Deadly but beautiful - The trading cards...

April 15 2016, 1:50am | Comments
Bookmark Staging Aliveness, Challenging Anthropocentrism: Subverting an Art Historical Paradigm | NOEMA -…
[This text is a shortened version of Hauser, Jens: Chatarra dura, política suave y máquinas mojadas: Hacia un humano innecesario / Hard Scrap, Soft Politics, and Wet Machines: Toward an Unnecessary…

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

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