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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 The Stars of YouTube and Vine | The New Yorker

  If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of out-of-focus lifecasts.

  December 10 2014, 2:01am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google is Destroying the Act of Reading – Tablet Magazine

  I have come to my favorite café (which has very fast Wi-Fi) and ordered a coffee.

  October 11 2014, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark COMPUTER VIRUS CATALOG

  About the project They steal our files, corrupt our hard drives and destroy our lives. We scan. We block. Do everything we can to prevent infection. Computer viruses. We hate 'em.…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is A Television (Tele-Vision) And Will Your Children Even Care? -…

  In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | 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.

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments

• Bookmark I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com

  After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share…

  July 12 2014, 2:25am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Distribution of the Insensible | Mute

  January 29 2014, 4:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif Today by Daniel Rubinstein | Born in 1987

  The revival of the animated GIF marks a point in the history of the web when it finally became sufficiently advanced to take pleasure in its own obsolescence.

  January 6 2014, 4:54am | 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 Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 27 2013, 4:16pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2013, 12:01pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl

  The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

  May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke at Rhizome.org

  March 30 2013, 3:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want…

  SPIEGEL: Mr. Eco, you are considered one of the world's great scholars, and now you are opening an exhibition at the Louvre, one of the world's most important museums.

  March 19 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

  January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark artforum.com / in print

  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

  January 14 2013, 5:29pm | 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

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Featured on DRadio Wissen

  As originally featured on the DRadio Wissen site (here is a terrible Google translation for your pleasure): Never were beautiful mistake An error in the digital image processing in a computer game in the transmission of live streams – which can be very annoying. Glitching…

  September 11 2012, 3:04pm | 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

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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 The Stars of YouTube and Vine | The New Yorker

  If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of out-of-focus lifecasts.

  December 10 2014, 2:01am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google is Destroying the Act of Reading – Tablet Magazine

  I have come to my favorite café (which has very fast Wi-Fi) and ordered a coffee.

  October 11 2014, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark COMPUTER VIRUS CATALOG

  About the project They steal our files, corrupt our hard drives and destroy our lives. We scan. We block. Do everything we can to prevent infection. Computer viruses. We hate 'em.…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is A Television (Tele-Vision) And Will Your Children Even Care? -…

  In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | 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.

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments

• Bookmark I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com

  After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share…

  July 12 2014, 2:25am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Distribution of the Insensible | Mute

  January 29 2014, 4:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif Today by Daniel Rubinstein | Born in 1987

  The revival of the animated GIF marks a point in the history of the web when it finally became sufficiently advanced to take pleasure in its own obsolescence.

  January 6 2014, 4:54am | 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 Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 27 2013, 4:16pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2013, 12:01pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl

  The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

  May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke at Rhizome.org

  March 30 2013, 3:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want…

  SPIEGEL: Mr. Eco, you are considered one of the world's great scholars, and now you are opening an exhibition at the Louvre, one of the world's most important museums.

  March 19 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

  A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

  January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark artforum.com / in print

  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going to…

  January 14 2013, 5:29pm | 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

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Featured on DRadio Wissen

  As originally featured on the DRadio Wissen site (here is a terrible Google translation for your pleasure): Never were beautiful mistake An error in the digital image processing in a computer game in the transmission of live streams – which can be very annoying. Glitching…

  September 11 2012, 3:04pm | 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

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