The Pattern Tables of Super Mario Brothers: This is what is...

The Pattern Tables of Super Mario Brothers: This is what is known as the Pattern Tables, the space in the NES’s RAM that holds the game’s graphics. The ones on the left are the sprite tiles, such as Mario and all the enemies. The ones on the right are the background tiles ...

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Kiosk, design sampler, by Unfold: Kiosk is a project that...

Kiosk, design sampler, by Unfold: Kiosk is a project that explores a near future scenario in which digital fabricators are so ubiquitous, that we see them appear on street corners, just like fast food today is sold in NY style mobile food stalls. A place where you can quickly get a custom made fi...

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Outcomes of Curious Ritual project

Time for presenting summer project outcomes! In July and August, I spent two months in the Media Design Program department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As I mentioned few weeks ago, the project was called CURIOUS RITUALS: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday and...

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“Zombie Media”, as defined by Jussi Parikka: Zombie...

“Zombie Media”, as defined by Jussi Parikka: Zombie media addresses the living deads of media culture. As such, it is clearly related to the earlier calls to investigate “dead media” by Bruce Sterling and others: to map the forgotten, out-of-use, obsolete and declared dysfunctional technologies i...

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From a paper being presented at the SecureComm conference in...

From a paper being presented at the SecureComm conference in Italy by Tom Chothia and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, which investigate how users who participate in BitTorrent swarms for popular files are likely to have their IP addresses logged by monitoring companies within three hou...

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The Moon Goose Experiment by Agnes Meyer-Brandis: The Moon...

The Moon Goose Experiment by Agnes Meyer-Brandis: The Moon Goose Experiment (MGE) is based on an excerpt from the book The Man in the Moone, written by the english bishop Francis Godwin in 1603. Godwin was the first person ever to describe weightlessness – long before Newton’s theory of gravity...

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Outrun, by Garnet Hertz: OutRun offers a unique mixed reality...

Outrun, by Garnet Hertz: OutRun offers a unique mixed reality simulation as one physically drives through an 8-bit video game. The windshield of the system features custom software that transforms the real world into an 8-bit video game, enabling the user to have limitless gameplay opportunities ...

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