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Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

September 18 2012, 6:18am | 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
Bookmark My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide” « MEDIA, NEW MEDIA,…
This is my response to Claire Bishop‘s essay “Digital Divide“, published in Artforum in September 2012 (also posted in the comments section of the article): Reading this article was a pleasure,…

September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark Making the Digital Divide Cheap and Nasty. | http://www.furtherfield.org
So ArtForum have launched a special September issue investigating the, lets say broader, relationship between new media, technology and visual art.* Of worthy mention is the essay Digital Divide by the…

September 8 2012, 6:57am | Comments
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Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments
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Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments
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the gift, the artist, and the net

September 8 2012, 6:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…
This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments
Bookmark Digital Curation Resource Guide
Digital curation involves selection and appraisal by creators and archivists; evolving provision of intellectual access; redundant storage; data transformations; and, for some materials, a commitment to long-term preservation. Digital curation is…

August 25 2012, 2:53am | 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
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | 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
Tumblr Happy 25th Birthday to the GIF!

June 15 2012, 7:02am | 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 DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron
The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer…

June 2 2012, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark Machines and memory
Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments
Bookmark How to Destroy the Internet
The first step on this trip is mental. We need to begin by no longer treating the Internet like a ghost. It's made of more metal, plastic, and fiber than you…

May 30 2012, 2:00am | Comments
Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph
Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments
Bookmark "Don't Gaze Me, Bro" : curation, gender, and the new aesthetic
Everyone seems to be talking about the New Aesthetic lately. Have you seen it? It might possibly have shattered records of attention credits/takes in its opening weekend. In its tumblr form,…

May 30 2012, 1:56am | 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
Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…
Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments
Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments
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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture
The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second,…
Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks…

April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments
Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?
The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments
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Tumblr ❤ GIFs

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
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Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
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Just how big are porn sites?

April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments
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Rorschmap

April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

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