Search terms, by B42 ed.: What are we to make of all these countless sounds and images passing before our eyes, reaching our ears, arriving on our cell phones, moving across our computers and iPads? What artistic categories are relevant in an era of e...
Read MoreDrone Kitsch, by Carl Diehl (2012), digital animation derived from electronic video produced during a residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, May 2011: Silent running, the Prius of predators, the drone is (ob)seen and not heard. ...
Read MoreJunkware, by Thierry Bardini: Examining cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, Thierry Bardini explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed of useless, but always potentially recyclable,...
Read MoreDirection-pad turned into a upside-down cross.
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““What’s pissing me off is that it uses so little of my body. You’re just sitting there, and it’s quite boring. You’ve got this stupid little mouse that requires one hand, and your eyes. That’s it. What about the rest of you? No African w...
Read MoreFantasy video gaming?: kids playing with game controllers and no games
Read More““A new Pentagon study shows that almost 30 percent of drone pilots surveyed suffer from what the military calls “burnout.” It’s the first time the military has tried to measure the psychological impact of waging a “remote-controlled war.
Read More“Mark Your Territory is a new system that lets individuals check-in to foursquare by physically urinating at the actual location. MYT maintains the abilities of Foursquare while drawing humans back into the physical world. It is not a shunning of dig...
Read MoreThe Fixer’s manifesto, by Sugru
Read More“9. What are the biggest misconceptions [about critical design]?That it is negative and anti-everything. That it is only commentary and cannot change anything That it is jokey That it is not concerned with aesthetics That it is against mass-producti...
Read More“The Creative Process” as seen by Ben Pieratt
Read More““There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”” - Robert Oppenheimer.
Read More“Hommage à New-York” by Florent Deloison: a game in which the player has to destroy the computer code creating the game: Dans cette version, au lieu des casser des briques, le joueur doit détruire le code informatique à l’origine du jeu, qui ...
Read More“What makes Paris look like Paris” Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain geo-spatial area, for example the c...
Read MoreRead in Iwata Asks: Yuzawa Yeah. We were sure to make use of that. And when the Wii U GamePad controller still hadn’t come together, we had Motoyama-san make a mockup (model) so we could check how it would feel in your hands. Motoyama I actually b...
Read More1 bit music by Tristan Perish: An electronic circuit is assembled inside a CD case with a headphone jack on the side. The device plays back 40 minutes of low-fi 1-bit electronic music—the lowest possible digital representation of audio. The Cantalo...
Read MoreIntel’s “Technology Metabolism Index,” which shows how citizens of countries’ tech adoption exceeds or lags what one would expect given their levels of wealth.
Read More“The Digital Broadsheet”
Read MoreFacebook demetricator by Benjamin Grosser: Demetricator is free software that runs within the web browser, constantly watching Facebook when it’s loaded and removing the metrics wherever they occur. This is true not only of those counts that show u...
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