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Posted June 23 2013 12:54

[PhD Thesis] Staging Places as Performances: Creative Strategies for Architecture

For those who might find it interesting, this thesis is now online in open access here:

http://www.academia.edu/3583432/Staging_Places_as_Performances_Creative_Strategies_for_Architecture

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This thesis is about creative strategies for staging places as performances. To remain viable in the rapidly changing technological and social context, architecture needs to extend ...

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Posted June 22 2013 03:22

IASLonline Lessons in NetArt

I updated the commented links in IASLonline Lessons in NetArt: Links:
http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NALinke.html
You can find 16 new summaries of texts written by Inke Arns, Geoff Cox, Florian Cramer, Simona Lodi, Geert Lovink, Anna Munster, Eduardo Navas, Marc Ries, Roberto Simanowski, Greg J. Smith, Julian ...

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Posted June 20 2013 14:58

Should we be capitalizing Internet?

I guess it would depend on how we use the word "internet" in writing. If it is the beginning of your sentence then it should be capitalized except if it is used in fragment sentence as what I learned in English class many years ago.

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Posted June 19 2013 17:32

McKenzie Wark presents his latest book The Spectacle of Disintegration

Stunted Publicity

“If a rock falls on your head it does positive harm, but
shame, disgrace, reproaches and insults are damaging only in so far as
you’re conscious of them. If you’re not, you feel no hurt at all. What’s
the harm in the whole audience hissing ...

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Posted June 19 2013 17:32

stopshop

I heard only music and no conversation.

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Posted June 19 2013 17:25

McKenzie Wark presents his latest book The Spectacle of Disintegration

In the interests of an open public discussion, I am submitting this link, which is a statement signed by five and soon to be six different writers and bloggers who think that M. Wark's "Debord action figure" is a silly provocation.

http://www.notbored.org/stunted-publicity.html

I can't imagine ...

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Posted June 19 2013 16:00

Should we be capitalizing Internet?

The Rhizome style guide calls for the word "internet" to be written in lower case, but I have been continuing my normal practice of capitalizing it, maverick that I am.

To not capitalize it is more post-internet and cool. It suggests that the internet is not monolithic, but is many ...

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Posted June 19 2013 07:04

Outsider Art: The Art Market's 'Cultural Capitalism' Moment.

Outsider Art: The Art Market's 'Cultural Capitalism' Moment.

[img]http://www.furtherfield.org/sites/furtherfield.org/files/imagecache/content_width_598px/marcel-storr.jpg[/img]

New article on Furtherfield by Robert Jackson
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/outsider-art-art-markets-cultural-capitalism-moment

We all know what Outsider Art is, and the fallaciousness of the term - yet ...

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Posted June 18 2013 11:59

New Article

Digicult has just published 'Mapping Emergence: Nomads, Nodes, Strings & Paths - Urban Transcripts 2012' a new essay by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou (also available in Italian).

www.digicult.it/news/mapping-emergence-nomads-nodes-strings-paths-urban-transcripts-2012/

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Posted June 17 2013 08:36

Review of 'Neither Here Nor Then' by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead

Review of 'Neither Here Nor Then' by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead

[img]http://www.furtherfield.org/sites/furtherfield.org/files/daniel_rourke/more-songs-of-innocence-and-experience--2012-install-shot.jpg[/img]

Daniel Rourke reviews Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead's exhibition at the Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London, UK.

On from 24 May - 13 July 2013
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Posted June 17 2013 08:19

Review of 'Neither Here Nor Then' by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead

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Posted June 12 2013 17:14

Rackspace->Amazon migration status

Hi all,

Just wanted to keep everyone abreast of the latest developments.

As of last week:

I've completed the process of porting rhizome.org to Ubuntu 12.04. While doing so I dramatically simplified the underlying architecture of the site and cut down the number of files and software dependencies ...

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Posted June 12 2013 17:11

Rackspace->Amazon migration status

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Posted June 10 2013 15:51

Link Editions releases Beyond New Media Art, by Domenico Quaranta

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Domenico Quaranta, Beyond New Media Art, Link Editions, Brescia 2013. English, soft cover, 290 pp. 15.00 €, ISBN 9781291376975

Link Editions is proud to announce the release of "Beyond New Media Art", by Domenico Quaranta.

"Beyond New Media Art" is the ...

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Posted June 6 2013 02:03

BIOS – Trans Species Social Network

The idea of artwork is based on transformation the analog electric signals in plant combined with galvanic reaction into the signals that will control the power and frequency of vibrator build in the dildo. This kind of the affective relation with plants can be extended version of transspecies communication that ...

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Posted June 6 2013 02:00

AFFECTIVE CINEMA

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QF2RU5EmICo[/youtube]

Cinematic instrument based on feedback between my seed mixed with microbes (living in in local water reservoir), flower and voice-music performance. USB microscope will generate details of movement inside of view area and those digits will be injected into ...

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