“Secret Society,” installation view, CAPC, Bordeaux
- Escape the Map, a Google Streetview interactive short sci-fi film made by Mercedes-Benz (via Kill Screen)
- The phone hacking scandal exposed the failures of traditional institutions to maintain boundaries, distinctions and thresholds against the spectrallike entity of contemporary corporate media. - Sam Jacob in Domus on "The Architecture of Corporate Media"
- N+1 editor Keith Gessen was arrested yesterday morning during the protest. The Awl lists other reporters who have been arrested during Occupy Wall Street.
- “I think that speed is part of the innovation process. If ideas aren’t built on with a sense of urgency, time can pass you by.” Fast Company talks with DARPA director Regina Dugan
- LoVid performing at Museum of Moving Image, 2011
- “Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence” on view at CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux "deals with the general theme of secret societies through the prism of contemporary art in the current context of media super-exposure" (Mousse)
- Interview with Mark Read, the OWS "batsignal" creator (Boing Boing)
- Podcast on Africa and post-post-colonialism literature (The Guardian)
- Netherlands art dealership Cook & Becker have opened a gallery that spotlights with work from game developers gallery features images from Katamari Damacy/Noby Noby Boy Keita Takahashi, PaRappa the Rapper/UmJammer Lammy creator Masaya Matsuura, Killzone 3 series developer Guerilla Games, and others
- Frieze New York gallery list
- WMNNA reviews Utopia Forever - Visions of Architecture and Urbanism. An inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning.
- GapVis is an "interface for exploring and reading texts that reference ancient places. It includes maps and data visualizations that show what locations are referred to a different points in the narrative and allows you to dig into the details to learn more."
- Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers (Waxy)