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Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus
We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

July 17 2019, 10:11am | 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 Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The Dark Side of the Digital”
In What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe insists “the nature of thought itself must change if it is to be posthumanist.

June 28 2017, 3:07am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of number of connections is…
Authors: R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, J.L. Perez Velazquez Abstract: It has been said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity, and…

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Facebook Cache #Additivism plants and insects art
Can anyone suggest artists working with plant life or fungus, growing, breeding, cultivating?

October 6 2016, 8:50am | Comments
Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark The Research Pirates of the Dark Web - The Atlantic
There’s a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale
Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale, (4th Feb 2016)Daniel Rourke talked about deep time, horror, crap, ‘The Weird’ and The Radical at Transmediale festival, Berlin. The talk was part of the Disnovation Research panel, featuring Jean-Marie Boyer, Ewen Chardronnet, Nicolas Maigret, Erin Sexton,…

February 9 2016, 5:52am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

April 29 2015, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark The Spokesman-Review - Google News Archive Search

December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark Space in the Tropics "ch01"
Thence emerged the story of Robinson, in the way a dream might occur. When this dream was published, however, all Europe realized that it had been dreaming it.. They would make…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark The university as a hackerspace - The Lincoln Repository
In a paper published last year, I argued for a different way of understanding the emergence of hacker culture.

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

June 8 2014, 10:11am | Comments
Projects Shimmering World Conference, 25th April 2014

March 18 2014, 5:49am | Comments
Bookmark Q&A: Genome Pioneer Craig Venter Plans Largest Human Genome Project to Aid…
Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter announced plans Tuesday to sequence the gene maps of 40,000 volunteers in a bid to crack the secrets of healthy human aging.

March 4 2014, 10:54pm | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home - Issue 8: Home -…
The history of Artificial Intelligence,” said my computer science professor on the first day of class, “is a history of failure.” This harsh judgment summed up 50 years of trying to…

January 5 2014, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark Uncivilizing the PhD: for a politics of doctoral experience | ROAR Magazine
The road to a PhD is a common source of frustration. It is time to acknowledge and contest this experience as the outcome of a disciplinarian process. As a faceless PhD…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Projects This Mess is a Place

October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments
Portfolio Conference Paper: How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean
International Conference on the Image, ‘How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean’, University Center Chicago, October 18th-19th 2013

October 18 2013, 8:38am | Comments
Portfolio Conference Panel: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process
International Conference on Narrative, ‘Narrating Digital Things for Posthuman Ends’ as part of panel, ‘It Shall Have Become: Time and Presentness in Narratives of Digital Process’, Manchester Metropolitan University, with Zara Dinnen, Rob Gallagher, Simon Clark, June 26th-29th 2013

June 26 2013, 8:33am | Comments
Bookmark Rhizome | Using, Using, Used
Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as…

January 22 2013, 3:51pm | 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 Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens: Who would win in a fight?
team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

December 31 2012, 6:49am | Comments
Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Portfolio Conference Panel: How to Survive in a Post-Zombie Digital Landscape
ASAP/4: Genres of the Present Conference, Royal College of Art, ‘Abject Materialities (an Ontology of Every Thing on the Face of the Earth)’ as part of panel, ‘Figuring Genre in Contemporary Culture: How to Survive in a Post-Zombie Digital Landscape’, with Zara Dinnen, Rob…

October 4 2012, 8:26am | Comments
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete

September 16 2012, 4:35am | Comments
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Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken
The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark digital divide: contemporary art and new media - 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…

September 4 2012, 6:17am | Comments
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A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments

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