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Posted Sept. 12 2013 06:05

six photographs from a non-existent work of conceptual art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/

and permanently here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/sets/72157635475663335/

cheers

m.

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Posted Sept. 12 2013 02:21

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Brian Shimkovitz. Part I

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH… Brian Shimkovitz. Part I

Produced by Matías Rossi

The tale of how a student of ethnomusicology from Brooklyn spent a year in West Africa buying tapes off street markets… and how he managed to turn that bizarre collection into one of the most revered ...

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Posted Sept. 10 2013 09:41

Video interview with Shu Lea Cheang & Mark Amerika

Video interview with Shu Lea Cheang & Mark Amerika

Disrupting data, the ‘new normal’ and gentrifying the internet.

Video by Jean Kay.

Working with the internet since the 90s, Shu Lea Cheang and Mark Amerika have seen the world wide web develop, shift and change into what it is today ...

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Posted Sept. 10 2013 09:39

"A Symbol" Bill Miller at The Widget Art Gallery.

"A Symbol" Bill Miller at The Widget Art Gallery.

[img]http://www.chiarapassa.it/gridWAG_072013_iphone2.gif[/img]

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/symbol-bill-miller-widget-art-gallery

Review by Rob Myers.

What can we learn from our encounter with an indeterminate symbol floating in the space of a gallery that exists only on ...

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Posted Sept. 10 2013 09:36

On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention?

On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention?

[img]http://www.furtherfield.org/sites/furtherfield.org/files/imagecache/content_width_598px/luke-main.png[/img]

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/art-and-disobedience-or-what-intervention

Luke Munn reviews a series of artworks that provide clues about the strategies of contestation and intervention available to contemporary artists ...

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Posted Aug. 29 2013 10:42

Contemporary theories on virtual space

I am currently doing research for my dissertation looking into theories about "space" in relation to the Internet. I have looked into postmodern theories: Foucault: Heterotopic space, Baudrillard: Simulation & Simulacra and Deleuze & Guattari: Rhizome. Now I would like to find more recent theories, would be thankful for suggestions.

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Posted Aug. 26 2013 23:33

Ted Nelson at EXPO 1

On Friday afternoon in the basement of MoMA PS1, Dan Visel, contributing editor to online magazine Triple Canopy, introduced Ted Nelson to a small crowd as the inventor of hypertext, here to shed light on "how we could communicate in the future". In the course of an hour, no such ...

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Posted Aug. 26 2013 18:33

Charlie Sheen Soundboard Smartphone Improvisation

<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F105154452"></iframe>

https://soundcloud.com/leggerostudio/charlie-sheen-soundboard-smartphone-improvisation

2013
Luca Leggero: Smartphone, Loopstation

Made using this app: Charlie Sheen Soundboard
play.google.com/store/apps ...

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Posted Aug. 26 2013 04:22

New feature: Conversation with plunderphonic artist Vicki Bennett on her sound collection

New feature: Conversation with plunderphonic artist Vicki Bennett on her sound collection

The following is a transcript of the email conversation with plunderphonic artist and sound collector Vicki Bennett, which took place in Summer 2013, as part of the research process for the podcast series MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with… http ...

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Posted Aug. 24 2013 13:32

Urban Screens

I'm in the process of editing a book (forthcoming UCPress) on abstraction in contemporary moving image artworks and looking for a writer/scholar/academic who knows the urban screens world very well: Europe, the Americas and Asia. This writer will preferably be a female academic who is knowledgeable in contemporary ...

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Posted Aug. 24 2013 02:50

Thomas Dreher´s The History of Computer Art

The third chapter of "The History of Computer Art" is now online in the English translation. The missing chapters IV to VIII will follow. Early Computer Literature: URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA-III.1e.html
Early Computer Graphics: URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA-III.2e.html

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Posted Aug. 22 2013 13:28

Women as Internet Browsers

http://pashutaphotography.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-if-girls-were-internet-browsers.html

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Posted Aug. 18 2013 10:46

future potentials for ascii art

i forgot to post this here, but am doing it now… i thought that maybe some of you would be interested. this is a web release of a paper that anders carlsson (goto80) and i wrote a little over a year ago. there is other info about the paper and ...

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Posted Aug. 15 2013 23:31

toegristle #350

http://toegristle.com/perpetual-canvas/350

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Posted Aug. 13 2013 12:38

pixelated image generator

it is a wonderful project of c#　generating images with different pixels. here is one, it creats images, not sure if it is what you are looking for.

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Posted Aug. 13 2013 07:26

Commodify Us: Our Data Our Terms

Commodify Us: Our Data Our Terms.

[img]http://commodify.us/images/dollar_600w_play.png[/img]

Article by Marc Garrett.
Includes interview with Walter Langelaar
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/commodify-us-our-data-our-terms

Richard Stallman, the outspoken promoter for the Free Software movement proposes that we should all leave Facebook and either find ...

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