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Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography
AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark BBC - Future - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese…
“Inflatable duck baby pool with canopy.” “Hot selling colourful temporary full arm tattoo for men.” “Splendid reusable dog pee pad (minimum order: 500).

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West – InVisible Culture
Carolyn L. Kane In a world that esteems technological efficiency, immediacy, and control, the advent of technical noise, glitch, and failure—no matter how colorful or disturbingly beautiful—are avoided at great costs.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Medium is the Messiah: McLuhan's Religion and its Relationship to His…
To say that Marshall McLuhan was incidentally a Christian, or that his Catholicism was just part of his private life, is a little like saying that Karl Marx was only incidentally…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic
A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…
In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic
Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium
In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

November 20 2017, 11:06am | Comments
Bookmark John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by…
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size,…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Additivism Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj
Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj An interview with the artist Moreshin Allahyari about her commission for The Photographers’ Gallery’s Media Wall - See Who Sees the Unknown, Ya'jooj Ma'jooj. Artwork © the artist, Video © The Photographers’ Gallery, 2017

May 20 2017, 4:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism - The Atlantic
Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. The messages began rolling in…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017
Watching the 2016 US presidential election was already a surreal experience, as dozens of qualified candidates lost out to a failed businessman and reality television star.

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | 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 Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED
On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I…

December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic
“I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The…

November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic
Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody…

October 16 2016, 7:47am | Comments
Bookmark Gif Horse — Real Life
An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and…

September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Pirates are now using YouTube's panoramic videos to hide whole movies -…
Versions is the essential guide to virtual reality and beyond. It investigates the rapidly deteriorating boundary between the real world and the one behind the screen. Versions launched in 2016 at…

July 2 2016, 9:49am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem - NYTimes.com
ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” —…

June 30 2016, 8:55am | Comments
Bookmark How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time | PCWorld
According to urban legend, a landfill somewhere in the small city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, bulges with millions of copies of the worst game ever made—a game that many observers blamed…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Facebook Cache list: compression artifact art
I really like painters that adopt compression artifacts...

April 20 2016, 12:18am | 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 Move over, chatbots: meet the artbots | Technology | The Guardian
At Facebook’s F8 conference in Silicon Valley, David Marcus, the company’s head of messaging, proudly demonstrated its new suite of chatbots. Users can now get in a conversation with the likes…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Facebook the Colonial Empire - The Atlantic
Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t had the best week. First, Facebook’s Free Basics platform was effectively banned in India.

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly…
BuzzFeed has achieved an outrageous amount of success in recent years, reaching an estimated 203 million people a month, including 112 million in the US alone, according to Quantcast. There are…

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark What digital trash dumped in games tells us about the players |…
A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

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