Sadly, Raquel Meyers won't be at this weekend's Blip Festival in New York (Wired reports due to passport issues), but her music videos are worth checking out.

Notes from Duncan Malashock's talk at NURTUREart Gallery for the Soft Power show. Malashock explains his early computer art experiences with SuperPaint, NUDE.BAS, HyperCard, and Myst: The graphics were made with 3D software, but the interactive game itself was created using HyperCard. Imagine my encouragement when I found that out and took a look at the code for myself, since I admired the creators of the game for their ability to evoke a mood and tell a story with very few words or human characters

Vincenzo Natali is set to direct William Gibson's "Neuromancer." Natali is currently working on a film based on JG Ballard's High Rise.

Brody Condon's Neuromancer.

Minecraft Ghibli World, a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki (Metafilter.) And Minecraft Acid Trip Shader Mod.

Frieze Art Fair is coming to New York.

Neon Boneyard, where Vegas lights go to die.

A Brief History of Timezones

I have to ask myself what I expect from painting: should it be subservient to my ideas or a queen that I have to serve? - Neo Rauch in an interview with The Art Newspaper

Brazil no longer, as Julian Dibbell puts it, the "Great Southern Hope" for copyright reform. (compare and contrast with Dibbell's 2004 Wired story)

Motherboard visits Babycastles (Previously on Rhizome)

Bunch of great sci-fi writers list their favorite sci-fi writing. Brian Aldiss on Olaf Stapledon, William Gibson on Alfred Bester, Christopher Priest on JG Ballard, etc.

Performances In Front of Sol Lewitt (via Tom Moody)

Notations 21, a compendium and anthology of scores from composers who use non-traditional music notations. (via zed equals zee)

Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Stella: an Atari 2600 emulator (via Tinkerkid)

Ursula Le Guin reviews the new China Miéville novel

Pavilion of Iraq at the Venice Biennale, eflux

Lynn Hershman Leeson talks about women, technology, and art and her new documentary "!Women Art Revolution" (via Kill Screen)

Bill Buxton's collection of input and interactive devices

Chicago's intense street surveillance program and "7 Ways We Are Being Watched," The Atlantic

Charles Holland on James Stirling's archive at the Tate and a strange Edwin Lutyens' checkerboard building. More from Owen Hatherley

Protopia is a state that is better than today than yesterday, although it might be only a little better...Today we've become so aware of the downsides of innovations, and so disappointed with the promises of past utopias, that we now find it hard to believe even in protopia - Kevin Kelly

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