“Motor cells that respond to the sight of other people moving are intriguing, there’s no doubt. It’s likely they play a role in important social cognitions. But to claim that they make us empathic, and to raise them up as neuroscience’s holy grail, as the ultimate brain-based root of humanity, is r...
Pierre la Police, So Foot (2012): “In 2050, soccer will be...
Pierre la Police, So Foot (2012): “In 2050, soccer will be totally different / First: we will not call it “le foot” but ‘spetnos’” “Every game will be played at the Olympa [a concert hall in Paris]” “It will look like a “yes/no game with stunts on motorbikes2 “Besides, in 2050, human beings will b...
Footbrawl Quest: a turn based football game featuring the...
Footbrawl Quest: a turn based football game featuring the Knights vs the Undead. ...
"The project has five main points: 1. Opposition to dead media. Media never dies, it decays and rots,..."
“The project has five main points:1. Opposition to dead media. Media never dies, it decays and rots, and is reformed and remixed but always “stays as a residue in the soil”. 2. Opposition to planned obsolescence, which is an “unsupportable death drive” in the political media consumption and media e...
"The New Aesthetic has been repeatedly and roundly criticised for not stating itself clearly in a way..."
“The New Aesthetic has been repeatedly and roundly criticised for not stating itself clearly in a way that old frameworks, artistic and academic, may get their heads around; but also for romanticising “robots”, a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between reifying the machine and attrib...
"Two major issues appeared yesterday. One is the sustainability and durability of research projects..."
“ Two major issues appeared yesterday. One is the sustainability and durability of research projects originated as “just-in-time” ones. Rapid response papers are necessarily imperfect or incomplete, precisely because they need to be put together in such a short time; so they require integration in ...
SMB Pastel, made with Alien Skin’s Snap Art photoshop plugin.
SMB Pastel, made with Alien Skin’s Snap Art photoshop plugin. ...
"Odds are that your imagination will be adding things to the present world. I am sorry, but this..."
“Odds are that your imagination will be adding things to the present world. I am sorry, but this approach is exactly backward: the way to do it rigorously is to take away from the future, reduce from it, simply, things that do not belong to the coming times.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Salon, 2012. ...
"We very quickly got stuck in a kind of quicksand about whether and why we were promoting a..."
“ We very quickly got stuck in a kind of quicksand about whether and why we were promoting a questionable form of lo-brow and generally crap consumerism. Were we simply doing a classic client-services design exercise or were we trying to perform a political act? Personally I didn’t have a problem w...
"the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the..."
“ the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again—maybe more than once That’s pretty abstract. Here’s an example recipe: 1. Carve a statue out of stone. PHYSICAL 2. Digitize your statue with a 3D scanner. DIGITAL 3. Make s...