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Syllabus Cache introducing Media Art — jonCates (2019) - jonCates - Medium
jonCatesAug 21 · 7 min readover the last 15 years of my full-time teaching, i’ve collected, compiled, and processed a number of different ways and approaches for introducing students to Media Art in terms of the aestheticonceptechniques and…

August 22 2019, 5:47am | Comments
Additivism “Future Shock”: Manifestos in the Digital Age Citation: Hanna,...

May 28 2019, 4:34am | Comments
Bookmark A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl
This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks.

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea
An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

March 17 2018, 12:09pm | 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
Bookmark The Alt-Right and Antifa Are Waging a New Kind of Internet Warfare…
Live long enough and you may hear future historians recall the war between 4chan and an art collective called LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark How Silicon Valley has made your computer sexist and racist | The…
For 10 years Josephine was a rarity: a female hotshot in the heart of Silicon Valley. Having made her name, she was in demand and looked forward to climbing the corporate…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA - The…
It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made: a galloping mare filmed in 1878 by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was trying to learn whether horses in…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | 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
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times
BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence? Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi thriller. People worry that developments in…

June 26 2017, 5:50am | 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 Princeton researchers discover why AI become racist and sexist | Ars Technica
Ever since Microsoft's chatbot Tay started spouting racist commentary after 24 hours of interacting with humans on Twitter, it has been obvious that our AI creations can fall prey to human…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | 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 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 By 2030, You'll Be Living in a World That's Run by Google
Larry Page, one of Google’s two co-founders, once said off-handedly that Google is not about building a search engine. As he said it, “Oh, we’re really making an AI”. Google right…

March 11 2017, 7:21pm | Comments
Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED
This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump – Dale Beran…
Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him. Around 2005 or so a strange link started showing up in my old webcomic’s referral logs.…

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Impact of Social Sciences – Big data problems we face today can…
In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and…

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments
Bookmark 88 New Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places…
The satellite company Planet is used to breaking records. In 2014, a rocket exploded with a payload of the company’s satellites inside—26, the biggest loss ever.

February 20 2017, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees - The…
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be. There is considerable enthusiasm for technologies that allow people to simulate an engagement with a physical world.

February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of…
Evangelists of virtual reality believe it creates the ultimate empathy machine—this idea was wildly contested at the Weird Reality symposium this past October.

February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare? - Motherboard
Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated.

February 2 2017, 10:53pm | Comments
Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

January 28 2017, 4:33am | 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 Glitch art: Meet the artist who knitted Stuxnet into a scarf |…
Glitch art resonates with the increasingly complex love-hate relationship humans have with technology. Errors, and by extension the changes, that can occur within software source code and data can provide a fertile…

December 21 2016, 6:23am | Comments
Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life
Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

December 14 2016, 9:56am | 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 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

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