210924 | Christo posthumously wrapping Paris

*The deceased artist was always noted for his patience in seizing opportunities. https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/architecture-news/wrapped-arc-de-triomphe-christo (…) Known for wrapping landmarks and iconic architecture such as the Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985 and the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995, Christo and Jeanne-Claude drew up the plans for the Arc de Triomphe in 1962 from their nearby apartment […]

210924 | Industrial 3DPrinting in Italy

*It’s a good idea for makers and hobbyists to keep an eye on the manufacturing professionals. “Aerospace, defense and medical.” *This is a press release from “GE Additive,” which is General Electric’s 3DPrinting arm. RIVALTA DI TORINO, ITALY – 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 – Avio Aero and GE Additive have signed a non-binding letter of intent […]

210923 | The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2022

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/books/handbook-2022/pdf/download

210923 | Utopian Hours in Torino

https://utopianhours.it/en/programme/ Utopian Hours is the international festival dedicated to city making. Three days with the leading urban experts to explore the most urgent issues and learn about successful experiences from various cities around the world: policy makers, activists, entrepreneurs and innovators share their experiences, stimulating new and exciting visions on the future and the concept […]

210923 | Buy metaverse NFT profile art, also own a gambling casino

*That’s quite a proposal. https://whitepaper.gamblingapes.com/

210922 | The Queen of Jerusalem returns to Venice

*Maybe it’s corny tourist fare, but the Savoyard Turinese have to appreciate a Queen of Jerusalem. https://hyperallergic.com/678415/the-historical-regatta-revives-the-pomp-and-pageantry-of-15th-century-venice/

210921 | NFTism: No Fear in Trying

*This new London gallery show, which is affiliated with a new NFT platform, has a knowledgeable curator involved, so it’s actually pretty good. *Even their metaverse gallery is rather handsome, as such things go. https://unitlondon.com/whats-on/84-group-exhibition-nftism-no-fear-in-trying/

210921 | Fraud is blossoming in NFT-land

*Mostly impersonation, which is an interesting departure from the norm. *Cryptocurrency is easy to steal and everyone in modern electronic crime loves to have some.

210920 | Laura Kampf hard at work prototyping

*It’s a nice Torino angle that Laura is using scrapped FIAT parts for her new Makertainment toys here.

210919 | Meanwhile, at Feral File

Our next exhibition, P1x3L, will open on September 23, 2021 14:00 UTC+0 (10pm Shanghai, 4pm Berlin, 11am São Paulo, 7am Los Angeles), with collecting to begin one hour later. Join us on Discord to engage with other collectors, the artists, and curator Casey Reas. Each artwork will be released as an edition of 30 (240 […]

210919 | NFT Sector Snapshot

*As business summaries go, it’s not too bad. https://www.shellypalmer.com/2021/08/nft-sector-snapshot/ (…) Downsides NFTs are confusing regulators and politicians. It is unclear whether an NFT is a security (which would be regulated in the United States by the SEC just like a stock) or some other kind of asset. It is unclear how NFTs should be taxed. […]

210918 | AI and Music at Sonar 2021 Barcelona

210918 | Building computers inside Conway’s “Game of Life”

*Including a computer that can play Conway’s Game of Life while functioning inside Conway’s Game of Life. *The functional Conway digital clock is also quite handsome.

210917 | A Guide to Conductive Thread

*Thread is not the same as electrical wire, and thread can be handy stuff for art makers. https://chibitronics.com/how-to/guide-to-conductive-thread/

210917 | Refik Anadol

Meet the Media Guru | Refik Anadol Sabato 2 ottobre ore 18.30 al MEET ​​​​Torna Meet the Media Guru con Refik Anadol, una delle personalità di spicco sulla scena dell’Arte Digitale mondiale. Star riconosciuta con oltre 400mila followers sui social, con all’attivo varie installazioni e opere di Intelligenza Artificiale commissionate da prestigiose istituzioni internazionali tra […]

210917 | POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance

From: Tatiana Bazzichelli Dear all, I would like to inform you that the full programme of our conference POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance is online. You are welcome to attend in person at Kunstquartier Bethanien – Berlin, or online, on streaming on October 1-2, 2021 (+ workshops on September 22 and October […]

210917 | Sir Clive Sinclair, dead at 81

*That was then, this is now. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/16/sir_clive_sinclair/ Sir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81. The British entrepreneur is perhaps best known for launching the ZX range of cheap microcomputers, which helped bring computing, games, and programming into UK homes in the […]

210916 | Meanwhile, in Italy

210916 | Metaverse companies

210916 | A Prehistory of DAOs

*I don’t know what to make of this, but Italians might find it simpatico; there’s something very Luther Blissett about it. https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q

210915 | H3K at Basel

*Nice to see both of these august enterprises showing some signs of life. Dear friends of HEK, Upcoming Tuesday HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel will celebrate its 10th anniversary. As part of this anniversary, we would like to invite you to a reception on the outdoor platform of HEK: Tuesday, September 21, 2021, […]

210914 | ISEA 2022 Barcelona

Betreff: ISEA2022 Datum: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:07:19 +0200 Von: Paloma González Díaz #ISEA2022BARCELONA https://isea2022.isea-international.org/ ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in arts, interactivity, and electronic and digital media. […]

210914 | Neural Blender website

https://neuralblender.com/

210913 | The Arduino Portenta H7

*Oh dear, that device really looks big. Arduino Pro expands its industry-grade ecosystem with the Portenta H7 Lite _ A new board for industrial clients wanting to integrate the performance and power of the Portenta H7 into more targeted AI and edge computing applications Arduino PRO continues to invest in the diversification of its Portenta […]

210913 | Spatial-Temporal Motion Control via Composite Cam-follower Mechanisms (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)

*Those are nice. https://sutd-cgl.github.io/supp/Publication/projects/2021-SIGAsia-3DCamMech/index.htm

210913 | Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg in “Scientific American”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/guerilla-artist-daisy-ginsberg-recreates-scent-of-extinct-flowers/ (…) Which were the three flowers you chose to resurrect? The Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock, or Maui hau kuahiwi, grew in ancient lava fields in Maui, Hawaii. It was decimated by colonial cattle ranching, and the last tree died in 1912. The Orbexilum stipulatum was last seen in Kentucky in 1881 before it went extinct […]

210912 | Algospraying

*Don’t get arrested. Animation test with Graffomat / Spray can CNC plotter There’s a preliminary documentation of the Plotter available at https://niklasroy.com/graffolonia/ (Sorry, German only). A more thorough documentation in English will soon be available at https://niklasroy.com Original quality video can be downloaded for sharing and remixing at: https://archive.org/details/namave_so… Credits: Spray can plotter & Video: […]

210912 | International Space Station Virtual Reality

*For the masses!

210911 | European Researchers Night, Sharper Torino

Torna a Torino, il 24 e 25 settembre finalmente di nuovo in presenza, la Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 2021 organizzata dal Politecnico di Torino in collaborazione con l’Università degli Studi di Torino in una formula del tutto rinnovata: l’evento vedrà le ricercatrici e i ricercatori tornare a incontrare il pubblico valorizzando spazi di grande fascino […]

210911 | New Media in 1928

“It may take many months before television has been so simplified that anyone with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver can construct a good set which will give a clear image”

210910 | Forty years of V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media

On September 4, 2021, V2_ turned 40. To celebrate four decades of explorations in art, media and technology, we are embarking on a year of archival and curatorial study of some of the most iconic works, publications and presentations from those 40 years. In the two weeks leading up to V2_’s anniversary, we invited our […]

210910 | Meanwhile, at NOME Gallery

Marjolijn Dijkman ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING Friday, 10 September, 5–9pm / English version / German version below NOME is pleased to present Electrify Everything, a solo exhibition of new works by the Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman. Dijkman’s multi-disciplinary, research based practice is concerned with the residues of enlightenment ideology, manifestations of collective memory, and the blind spots […]

210910 | Loot, maybe the strangest NFT scheme to date

https://collisions.substack.com/p/gimme-the-loot https://www.lootproject.com

210909 | New Feral File NFT show sold out in seconds

*Well, that was that. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/instructions-follow-f1c

210907 | The Arduino of Soft Robotics from MIT Media Lab

*It’s not easy to become Arduino, but at least it’s a noble goal. https://www.hackster.io/news/go-with-the-flow-1afc9b3e85c0

210907 | Ars Electronica starts tomorrow

*Wish I was there in Linz, and also wish that Covid-19 didn’t exist. Neither is true, though. https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/

210906 | A new “Maker Demerit” badge

*Those are funny. I should get some. https://www.tested-store.com/listing/glued-fingers-de-merit-badge?product=1475

210905 | NFTs with functionality

*This seems plausible. Also, this blogpost is six months old, so I rather expect this to start happening in some way that I’ll notice. https://j.mirror.xyz/2j2iAo4su48mkfZoGWHZCMVkmPi8mE_YOyyMWrNPAX4 NFTs are about more than art by John Palmer (…) Basically, NFTs are about proven ownership of something digital, and what that unlocks for the owner. Right now, we’re in […]

210904 | ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community SPARKS

ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community SPARKS September SPARKS Theme: Creative Coding: Generative / Algorithmic Art and the Exploration of Authorship and Authenticity Moderated by Casey Reas and Bonnie Mitchell The ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community (DAC) sponsors monthly conversations around topics of interest to our community. 8-10 lightning talks selected by the moderators are followed […]

210904 | Art collecting in a modern pandemic

https://www.artsy.net/series/art-collecting-2021-artsy-report/artsy-editorial-foreword-key-findings-06-30-21 In 2019, Artsy produced “The Online Art Collector Report,” which examined the behaviors of collectors who bought art online as a subset of the broader community of art collectors. At the time, online sales accounted for just 9% of the entire art market. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, most in-person art world events transitioned […]

210903 | Meanwhile, at Art Basel

*International art events are still having a tough pandemic time of it. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-basel-letter Art Basel has written a letter to exhibitors in an attempt to calm nerves in the run up to the Swiss fair later this month, telling galleries it is “committed to hosting the fair under the current conditions because we firmly believe […]

210903 | New Feral File show coming up

*Last time around, everything sold in something like a minute and a half. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions Instructions Follow Announcing a new exhibition of digital artwork reflecting on the codes, regulations, and defaults that govern our present time, curated by Pau Waelder. Exhibition Opening: September 9, 2021 14:00 UTC+0 (10pm Shanghai, 3pm London, 10am New York, 7am Los […]

210903 | ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, 10-16 June 2022, in Barcelona

“In person,” no less! ISEA 2022 SAVE THE DATE We are excited to announce that the International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held in-person from 10 to 16 June 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. We invite artists, designers, scholars, researchers, educators, innovators, and creators to contribute to this growing discussion about our world of “possibles” […]

210902 | Italian Neanderthals and their elephant-bone hand-tools

*Those are some remarkably old-fashioned Italian tools, from Castel di Guido. http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/castel-di-guido-elephant-bone-tools-10016.html

210902 | The Daily Whales of Hic et Nunc

*Hic et Nunc’s analysis tools are quite strange and hacker-looking. 🐳The Daily Whales of Hic et Nunc🐳Wed Sep 1 Biggest accounts yesterday in number of sales and total spend. #hicetnunc #NFTs #XTZ #nftcollector #Tezos pic.twitter.com/DEEBQI8vka — GLRY.xyz (@glryxyz) September 2, 2021 The Daily Whales of Hic et Nunc Wed Sep 1 Biggest accounts yesterday in […]

210902 | Copyminters

*New forms of art means new art crimes.

210831 | STARTS at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021

https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/starts/https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/starts/ STARTS is a platform that aims to link technology and artistic practice more closely. It is implemented by European policy to promote innovations that also benefit the art world. It supports collaboration between artists, scientists, engineers and researchers to develop more creative, inclusive and sustainable technologies, and focuses on people and projects that help […]

210831 | LADB Restoration

*Well over a million views on YouTube, but if you need to crush some grapes, get a new machine.

210829 | The Holly+ site

*It’s the artificially intelligent, disembodied voice of Holly Herndon. You might believe it if you read it. Or if you listen to it singing. https://auction.holly.plus/about This site allows anyone to submit artwork made with Holly+ for approval by the Holly+ DAO, a decentralized international group of friends and supporters who steward my digital twin.👭 Every […]

210829 | Apes and Punks

*One wonders what”World of Women” is doing in there.

210829 | Ancient Roman multitool as a modern replica

*I was pretty sure that someone must have re-built this millennia-old tool-set, but I still wonder if they’re commercially available anywhere. I would quite like to own one. *You’ll notice that this device lacks a bottle-opener and a can opener, because the Roman Empire had no bottle-caps or sealed metal cans.

210828 | Jimmy DiResta coffee hack

*Famous pro Maker Jimmy DiResta is not a great artisan, he just never gets tired.

210828 | Carpentry Compiler

“After the revolution, things will be different. Not better, just different.”

210827 | A Jacquard Loom simulator

*It’s simulated with a Raspberry Pi. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/

210827 | A venture capitalist pondering metaverses

*Rather a lot going on here. https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer (…) Personally, I’m tracking the emergence of the Metaverse around eight core categories, which can be thought of as a stack (click each header for a dedicated essay). (((That’s a lot of dedicated essays.))) Hardware: The sale and support of physical technologies and devices used to access, interact […]

210827 | Adam Savage pondering electronics and costumes

*He has the occasional fit of art theory or design theory, but Adam Savage generally cuts to the chase from the point of view of the maker at the workbench. *You can be very up to speed with the likes of Arduino and Raspberry Pi and still benefit from this.

210827 | Linux after thirty years

https://ubuntu.com/blog/happy-birthday-30-years-of-linux

210826 | An excerpt from the latest issue of “Leonardo”

https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article/54/4/402/97295/Crypto-Art-A-Decentralized-View Abstract Crypto art is limited-edition digital art, cryptographically registered with a token on a blockchain. Tokens represent a transparent, auditable origin and provenance for a piece of digital art. Blockchain technology allows tokens to be held and securely traded without the involvement of third parties. Crypto art draws its origins from conceptual art—sharing the […]

210826 | Meanwhile, at Feral File

*This interesting development would presumably leave me owning some Ethereum product for the first time ever. https://feralfile.com Hi BruceS, Please join us this Thursday at 18:00 PDT (UTC-8) on our Discord voice channel for a discussion around Feral File’s draft Ethereum smart contracts. Here are the key points: Each exhibition will have its own unique […]

210826 | Karel Capek’s Robots are 100 years old

Capek’s play “RUR, Rossum’s Universal Robots,” first premiered in January 1921. *From the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a re-creation of 2016:

210826 | Linux is 30 years old

*Why did it survive (so far)? Opinions differ: https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/30_years_of_linux_red_hat/ (…) A remarkable aspect of the Linux story is that Torvalds is still leading it. “I first got started in 1995 with Linux, I think it would have been surprising to me [then] that he still had the chair and was doing such a good job […]

210826 | Multinational art theft and black marketeering

*It’s quite a true-crime tale, involving a deep fondness for the work of Vincent Van Gogh. https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-arts-and-entertainment-dubai-fb4739727afe8739850dec4af0fa1b17 ROME (AP) — One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged major cocaine trafficker who investigators say bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market with drug money, has been arrested in Dubai, Naples-based police said […]

210825 | Ars Electronica does trailers now

210825 | Meanwhile, at NOME Gallery

Marjolijn Dijkman ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING Friday, 10 September, 5–9pm / English version / German version below Berlin, 24 August 2021 NOME is pleased to present Electrify Everything, a solo exhibition of new works by the Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman. Dijkman’s multi-disciplinary, research based practice is concerned with the residues of enlightenment ideology, manifestations of collective memory, […]

210825 | Petra Cortright interview

*Let Petra be Petra, that’s my philosophy. https://www.thecaret.co/interviews/petra-cortright Hi Petra! It’s great to chat. How has the last year been for you? I mean, I had a great year, which I know is an obnoxious thing to say. But I made so much work because I didn’t have any excessive social obligations. I’d work out […]

210825 | In the studio with Manfred Mohr, 2021

*A pioneer of digital art for over fifty years.

210825 | Olia Lialina: “An Infinite Seance, Part Four”

*If this is the sort of net-dot-art discussion that you like, you’re really going to like this. http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_4/ An Infinite Séance 4 Impatience This essay concludes the series and will become part of the book An Infinite Séance, to be published by Light Industry in early 2022. “A medium survives as long as the form […]

210823 | Five hundred dollars per shop person per day

*He’s making professional sense here. *Also the transition from “sculptor” to “special effects artisan” is quite interesting.

210823 | Technological development marches on, 1990s, 2020s

210822 | The Charles and Ray Eames “Solar Do-Nothing Machine”

210822 | Bruno Munari justifies useless machines

MUNARI Che cosa sono le macchine inutili e perché Mettiamoci prima d’accordo sulla funzione delle macchine inutili: che siano macchine non c’è dubbio, dato che è una macchina la leva, volgarmente detta “quel pezzo di ferro lì”. Resta da chiarire l’aggettivo “inutile”: inutili perché non fabbricano, non eliminano manodopera, non fanno economizzare tempo e denaro, […]

210822 | The Giovanni de Dondi “Astrarium,” built in Padua 1348-1364.

*Destroyed in the War of the Mantuan Succession after three hundred years of impressing Italian viewers.

210822 | Don’t lose those valuable metal components

*If you decide to make a lathe out of wood off the grid.

210822 | The McMaster-Carr tool catalog

*The categories alone are pretty impressive. https://www.mcmaster.com/ *Old catalogs from 100 years ago are a historic education in technological development.

210822 | The Ballerina of Carignano

*I would guess that this strange automaton ballerina is Turinese and from the “Teatro Carignano,” but your guess is as good as mine.

210820 | Beatrice Trussardi “nomad culture”

https://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/2021/08/18/beatrice-trussardi-rivoluziona-l-arte-il-mio-modello-cultura-nomade-6ebc75be-0026-11ec-8344-5725a069e6ae.shtml Le intenzioni di Beatrice Trussardi sono anche quelle di allargare il campo di interesse dell’arte, non più soltanto «radar» di tendenze ma un vero e proprio laboratorio di analisi del futuro, con dei focus sull’intelligenza artificiale, sul clima, sulle nuove tecnologie e sulle frontiere della scienza. «Io credo — conclude Trussardi — che proprio […]

210819 | Twenty-five years of the Ars Electronica Futurelab

*May the angels of art history grant 25 more! 25 Years of the Ars Electronica Futurelab A digital kaleidoscope of the future (Linz, 19.08.2021) This year, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has prepared a broad multimedia offering. In an eight-part video series for which a special streaming and production […]

210819 | How many people own NFT art on blockchains?

*They’re a clique. *Also, these aren’t four different groups of speculators; a lot of these different token projects are owned by the same people.

210819 | Every Day Carry multitools for 2021

*This is a rather good summary of contemporary multitool devices. *It’s odd that the beloved Swiss Army Knife ranks so low, but they’re one of the oldest. https://everydaycarry.com/best-multi-tool

210816 | Niantic boasting about their metaverse

*I find “metaverses” to be quite funny. Unintentionally so, but it’s entertaining that it has become a sellable concept now. https://nianticlabs.com/blog/real-world-metaverse/ A lot of people are talking about “the metaverse” these days. Coming off eighteen months of Zoom, Netflix, and Doordash, you can count me out — at least in the form that most folks […]

210814 | The New Yorker magazine reviewing Artificial Intelligence art

*And it’s Kyle Chayka writing the review. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/appreciating-the-poetic-misunderstandings-of-ai-art

210814 | “Hello Robot” in Korea

*That was the best robot show I ever saw.

210813 | GitHub and Hic Et Nunc

*Presumably Hic Et Nunc also offers a guide to GitHub. https://github.com/hicetnunc2000/hicetnunc/wiki/Interactive-OBJKTs Interactive OBJKTs Violet Forest edited this page on Jun 30 · 18 revisions Below is a guide to minting an interactive OBJKT. Also check out the templates for p5.js, shaders, html, and svg. author: @pichiste (Daniel Massey) About Hit et nunc enables you to […]

210812 | Objective Reality, an augmented reality experience

210811 | SuperRare relates their own story to date

*That’s the NFT business for you. https://superrare.mirror.xyz/V8dIGJdt2Ja_TvMrCFcjp5eHT5ePMp6ruaFwU9fjolQ Recounting the early days of the NFT art market & peering ahead into the decentralized future with SuperRare co-founder & CEO, John Crain SuperRare was born from a simple idea: what if we could build an art market that put power into the hands of artists? This blog […]

210810 | Processing: 20 years old

Dear Processing Community, Processing is 20 years old today! We’ve been seeing a flurry of activity on social media regarding work and projects this community has been working on throughout the (difficult) past year. We’ve also been working behind the scenes on virtual events related to our fellowship and educational programs. To make Processing’s birthday […]

210810 | Feral File Show #4: “The Long Cut”

*Every artwork sold out at high speed. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/the-long-cut-bqv

210809 | The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage — for makers and artists

https://spectrum.ieee.org/maker-manufacturers-squeezed-chip-shortage Much has been written about how the Great Global Semiconductor Shortage has affected automakers, game console manufacturers, and other companies making commercial products. But tinkerers, prototypers, artists, and students making their own projects are also getting hit hard. Technology often filters into the maker scene by way of manufacturers that cater to hobbyists—they do […]

210808 | An Open Source Desk for Arduino and Raspberry Pi Projects

*Hmmm

210808 | Demerit badges for clumsy Makers

https://www.tested-store.com/listing/tested-patch-bundle

210808 | “Before darkness falls – Dnans ch’a fassa neuit.”

*The late Luciano Gibelli’s hefty tome on old and little-known Piedmontese tools, a regional classic despite its bulk, is hard to categorize; it’s not a how-to book, but rather a work of folklore and material culture. Along with six hundred implements of pre-industrial Piedmontese life, described in the Piedmontese language, it also has recipes, a […]

210808 | IoTizer

*Turn any device into remote-controlled robotic art, etc.

210805 | Domenica Quaranta discussing NFTs

*And he’s talking sense. https://digitalart.kuenstlerinnenpreis.nrw/blog/code-as-law-contemporary-art-and-nfts (…) But the main point here is that the vast majority of the NFTs filling up blockchains nowadays are actually disenfranchised digital assets controlled by oversimplified smart contracts, and that (despite their promises) can offer little guarantee in terms of authorship, authenticity, scarcity, implementation of artist’s rights, and duration over […]

210804 | Leatherman tools. Invented to fix second-hand FIAT 600s

210804 | Feral File to accept cryptocoins

*It’ll be interesting to see if this makes a difference, and if so, what kind of difference. Hi BruceS, Later this week, Feral File is launching support for crypto payments (USDC, ETH, and BTC). We’re excited for this change because it expands your ability to collect without limits. We initially planned to launch this a […]

210803 | At the Sardinian knife studio

*Rather a pleasant mom-and-pop craft atelier here; a hybrid mix of modest machine-shop hardware and hand-crafting. Those are “resolza” folding knives, often named after the Sardinian village of Pattada. They’re the darlings of the Sardinian tourist trade, although you have to check them in baggage if you’re flying out. *It’s interesting how the banging of […]

210803 | Traditional craft knives in a modern Turinese cutlery shop

*Maremmano, Perugino, Napoletano, Vernantino, Tre pianelle, Fiorentino, some Sardinian pattada knives. This photo is a few days old.

210803 | Artemide electrical icons

*What is the famous appliance designer attempting to tell us here?

210802 | Piedmontese traditional farm knives and forge tools

*The means of production after 5:00 are especially interesting.

210802 | “Barachin” Ël Cotel Piemontèis

*Contemporary “traditional” knives made partly by hand and partly with machine tools.

210802 | An extensive archive of NFT propaganda

*Keep your hand on your wallet — and if you get apparently rich, cold storage for those alleged assets. https://www.decentralised.co/the-reading-list/

210801 | Opinel, as featured by the New York Museum of Modern Art store

*I’m a big fan of the MoMA, but I’m not crazy about those screwdriver bits embedded in a knife handle. *On the other hand, this proves that Opinel is chic enough to be an artist’s knife.

210801 | Some eccentric Opinel product variants

*And who better to review these French devices than the prolific Youtube personality “Crazy Russian Hacker” aka “Taras Kul,” who is a resident of the USA from the breakaway Russian-ethnic region of Ukraine. *It’s endearing that Taras is not a design fetishist; he’s a Walmart-style consumer who is ready to shred those boxes to pieces. […]

210801 | A Piemonte “barachin” knife

*The blacksmith pitting on the blade is especially attractive. *One would like to have an authentic shade-tree blacksmith’s burachin two hundred years old, but the truth is that folding-knives rarely last that long outside of a collector’s cabinet or a museum vitrine. The hinges go, the handles go, they rust.

210801 | Sardinian pattada knives, the tourist-friendly variety

*Here’s a bunch of Sardinian local knives laid out in a booth in a tourist market. Did I buy one? Yeah, I did. Because the locals are so pleased about them, and so happy for you to have one. Or a dozen. A dozen would be better. *Also, the Piedmontese have a peculiar historical relationship […]

210801 | Piedmontese regional knives

*I could go buy a burachin — I know where to get one — but wouldn’t I then need a “frabusan” and a “puragnin” for my sudden, growing “personal collection”? Also, an Opinel (which is clearly a French cousin of the “Occitano”) is modestly priced, is in most every hardware store, will do most everything […]

210801 | Italian regional knives

*That’s a handsome chart, but really, that’s scarcely the beginning of it. The island of Sardinia alone has a wide variety of knife styles from villages just a few kilometers apart. *Also, that slender Piedmontese model isn’t even the stereotypical Piedmontese “local product” “prodotti tipici” knife, which would be the time-honored “burachin,” a nice, sturdy […]

210801 | Opinel knives and their self-presented heritage

*It’s hard not to like European regional heritage craft propaganda. Especially when it’s handsomely composed and shot, like this. *It seems that every Alpine valley, no matter how small, had a blacksmith with some local scheme for how to do even the simplest matters in ironwork. It’s like a tool version of odd regional dialects. […]

210731 | At the Opinel knife factory

*These modestly-priced but remarkably efficient folding knives are from Savoie, on the French side of the local Alps. They’ve been a particular success in the last few decades, with a lot of new different models and sizes. *The tiniest Opinel blades are ignored airport security guards, so I generally have one and they’ve been of […]

210731 | A typical manic day in NFT-land

210731 | Iris van Herpen adorning the catwalk with kinetic art

*It looks pretty good.

210731 | In the Iris van Herpen atelier

*The world’s best-known haute-digital fashion designer is really working those hand-crafted scissors and pencils there.

210730 | Work by George Rhoads

210730 | George Rhoads, kinetic artist (1926 – 2021)

210729 | The fifty most influential people in Non-Fungible Tokens

*According to Fortune magazine, anyway. If you click on this they will pester you to subscribe. https://fortune.com/nfty-50/

210728 | Arduino automated work bench

*This gentleman’s artisanal-electronic custom work bench is so intense that it got its own article in IEEE Spectrum. *You may note that the bench is specialized for creating makertainment videos of the assembly process, with lighting, camera mounts and so forth. As an avid experimenter and builder of random contraptions—and who isn’t the best at […]

210728 | A Wunderkammer review

*Those 3D environments are hard to write about. https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/07/27/performing-the-archive/ (…) The wwwunderkammer does more than house information about history, politics, art, and cultural values. The work itself is performative. In this way, the wwwunderkammer performs the archive, not merely exists as one. This distinction is important. As we wander around the wwunderkammer together, Gannis clarifies […]

210728 | Mementos of the visit of Charles Babbage to Torino

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157683714643676 https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157683709284026

210728 | Charles Babbage pursued by the secret police in Torino

AS PUBLISHED IN Memorie e Lettere, Istituto Lombardo, Vol XXX, p83-166, in 1968. Translated by F. Oliveira-Pinto in his article “On a Visit by Charles Babbage to Turin in 1840”, in the Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, Vol XXXVI, pages 479-486, 1991. From: The Royal Command of the City and Province of Turin, Police Department No. 6549 To: […]

210728 | The Internet Archive is 25 years old

https://mailchi.mp/archive.org/the-internet-archive-turns-25 Here’s to the Builders & the Dreamers This year, the Internet Archive is turning 25. Over the next few months, we’ll be taking you on a journey, from way back to way forward, as we explore the key moments when knowledge became more available to all. From the Library of Alexandria to the World […]

210727 | Raspberry Pi 400 teardown

*The teardown genre in video is rather good, especially when it comes to artisanal electronics. In this video, I’ll introduce you to the Raspberry Pi 400: The official Raspberry Pi all-in-one keyboard. Inside the keyboard is a modified Raspberry Pi 4. Join me for an unboxing, review, teardown, and even a DIY Raspberry Pi Zero-based […]

210727 | Projection-mapping at the Mole Antonelliana

*It rained heavily, but Share Festival staffers Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic gallantly picked up umbrellas and went downtown anyway. *The show went on, but the urban glare from the fog and streetlamps leached a lot of the vibrance out of those mapped projections. Also, we got wet. *We were glad to see it happen, […]

210726 | NFTs are mostly collectibles and sports, not artworks

*It’s a young industry, though. Young, and really peculiar. https://nonfungible.com/blog/q2-2021-nft-report

210726 | Serpentine Gallery are busy

Dear Friends, Yes, this is a second newsletter to come your way from us in July. And once again we are announcing the release of a report. This time around we are thrilled to share with you the release of the Legal Lab Report 1: Art + Tech/Science Collaborations that gathers and analyses the findings […]

210726 | VR Effect

The beloved Turinese monster-god from the silent movie “Cabiria.”

210726 | Universal Scene Description in NVIDIA Omniverse

“Rich, Complex 3D Worlds”

210726 | XRA

https://xra.org/

210726 | The Facebook Metaverse

*Mark Zuckerberg personally describes some of his company’s ambitions to transform Facebook into an immersive 3D environment. https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview (…) . I don’t know about you, but a lot of mornings, I reach for my phone by my bedside before I even put on my glasses, just to make sure, get whatever text messages I got […]

210726 | Metaverse resources and projects on GitHub

https://github.com/M3-org/awesome-metaverse Awesome Metaverse List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests, issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord. WebXR • WebXR Explainer – What is WebXR and what are the use-cases? […]

210726 | A big microprocessor that can bend and flex

*This is a big enough deal for electronics that it was published in NATURE. Silicon chips are glass and tend to shatter when embedded in device art, but not this baby. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03625-w “Separate from the mainstream semiconductor industry, flexible electronics operate within a domain that seamlessly integrates with everyday objects through a combination of ultrathin […]

210726 | CLIP + VQGAN keyword comparison by @kingdomakrillic

*This comparative grid makes it clear how much VQGAN + CLIP is the creative slave of its databases. *It’s a text to image neural net, but it builds from the statistical probabilities of archives it has already cataloged. https://imgur.com/a/SnSIQRu

210725 | MNC XR — tonight

*I just downloaded the app and I’ll be giving this a try tonight — a projection-mapping on the Mole Antonelliana. *I once clambered to the peak of the Mole Antonelliana and it was one of the physically scariest things I’ve ever done. Heights don’t scare me, but somehow that one did. https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157628547913643

210725 | We seem to have a Rhizome metaverse here

New Online Exhibition Offers Hot, Critical, Non-Fungible Content NFS NSFW NFT is a new online exhibition, hosted at 3D virtual gallery New Art City, exploring the critical poetics of this particular not-for-sale, not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token moment. The exhibition marks the culmination of the past year’s work by members of the Art & Code track, a […]

210723 | Herbert W. Franke solo show at Kate Vass Galerie

https://www.katevassgalerie.com/math-goes-art-by-herbert-w-franke The father of computer art, one of the leading German science fiction authors – Professor Herbert W. Franke, got fascinated about imaging systems early at the end of the 1940s when he was given the task of calculating electric-magnetic fields, as used in electron microscopes. He comments: “it opened my eyes to things I […]

210723 | The latest issue of “Computational Culture”

http://computationalculture.net/about-computational-culture/ Computational Culture (ISSN 2047-2390) is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of the culture of computational objects, practices, processes and structures. The journal’s primary aim is to examine the ways in which software undergirds and formulates contemporary life. Computational processes and systems not only enable contemporary forms of work […]

210722 | The Newzoo Metaverse Ecosystem Diagram

*If you’d like to hire them to give you business advice about metaverses, gaming, virtual real estate and NFTs, Newzoo can tell you a whole lot more. Metaverse Ecosystem Infographic

210722 | Maintaining a Tinguely kinetic artwork

*I don’t believe that this work in on the barge, but they do have one of Tinguely’s large public fountains, which was similarly dismantled and transported.

210722 | Museum Tinguely AHOY!

*Some of the works of kinetic artist Jean Tinguely are cruising around the rivers of Europe on show in a barge. https://www.tinguely.ch/en/ahoy/impressions.html

210722 | Gruppo T memorabilia

*I collect these, but Gruppo T was so productive, for so long, that I’ll probably never see even half of it. \

210720 | Re-Programmed Art

A tremendously interesting project from 2014. Along with preserving old kinetic art, why not try to rebuild it with new methods? Of course, that gets old too… But at least you’ve shown what’s possible! http://www.reprogrammed-art.cc/index.php?#home

210720 | The Grazia Varisco Archive

*Those photographs are fantastic. They’re all copyrighted, too, or else I would steel them and blog them immediately. http://www.archiviovarisco.it/grazia-varisco/autobiografia/

210720 | Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art

*What happens when kinetic art devices go into the museum? http://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving/opening-remarks/ (…) In 1959 Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, and Gabriele Devecchi met at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and formed Gruppo T (where T stands for “time”). They started producing works together, and these where exhibited for the first time in […]

210720 | Miriorama 1

210720 | Arte Programmata, 1963

*The tremendous “Gruppo T.” founded in 1959, Milan, Italy, based on their kinetic art manifesto, “The Declaration of October 1959,” in “Miriorama 1.” Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Gabriele Devecchi, Grazia Varisco

210719 | Nineteen minutes of testing a volumetric display device

*As with many other tested-dot-com videos, one feels educated afterwards. *There’s not much said about displaying digital artworks in these devices, but that’s an interesting prospect.

210718 | Symbols

210717 | Ars Electronica meets Milan

Garden Milan – MEET will be an inspirational journey through #immersive realities and hybrid scenarios, exploring the new artistic languages of #VR and XR, across exhibitions, performances, installations and laboratories. More infos soon! @meetcenter #arselectronica21

210716 | Sherry Huss of Maker Faire and her favorite tools

https://kk.org/cooltools/sherry-huss-co-founder-of-maker-faire/

210716 | A cardboard bridge designed by Michelangelo floating on balloons in Rome

*It’s not a bridge in Torino, but it’s a nice project anyway.

210714 | Holly Herndon creates her digital NFT vocal alter ego, Holly+

*This is rather difficult to explain, so I think I’ll just link to some of the documentation. https://holly.mirror.xyz/54ds2IiOnvthjGFkokFCoaI4EabytH9xjAYy1irHy94 I’m excited to finally share something I have been working on for the last year🪄 Holly+ I am releasing Holly+ in collaboration with Never Before Heard Sounds, the first tool of many to allow for others to […]

210714 | “Adafruit” made with VQ-GAN + CLIP

*Oh my goodness. https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/12/adafruit-made-with-vq-gan-clip/ Over the weekend I made some generative ai art using VQ-GAN + CLIP tutorial and Google Collab Notebook. It’s a bunch of Python that can take words and make pictures based on trained data sets. This one is the word “Adafruit”, so this is what the output is based on the […]

210714 | Vintage game cartridge sells for $1.56 million at auction

*It’s not even an NFT. https://gizmodo.com/unopened-super-mario-64-cartridge-sells-for-record-1-5-1847271326 An unopened copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million on Sunday, breaking the world record for most expensive video game auction, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. The previous record was held by The Legend of Zelda, when an unopened copy of the game for the original Nintendo […]

210714 | Call for Makers at Maker Faire Rome — extended a week

*Everybody does that. https://makerfairerome.eu/it/call-for-makers/ TORNA A STUPIRCI! TORNA A MAKER FAIRE ROME – THE EUROPEAN EDITION 2021 Maker Faire Rome è il più grande evento di innovazione europeo, una fiera nella quale mostrare al pubblico invenzioni, idee, soluzioni, le ultime scoperte della ricerca tecnologica, della robotica e dell’intelligenza artificiale. A Maker Faire Rome cerchiamo, da […]

210714 | Unboxing of an Infinite Objects NFT artwork

*This device is what the Infinite Objects company calls a “video print.” It’s a desktop art display that simply displays one single video. On the back, it has documentation proving that you own a non-fungible token. https://infiniteobjects.com/

210714 | Looking Glass 4K Gen2 & Looking Glass 8K Gen2

*Might be of interest for digital art displays. Figuring out how to parade your NFTs, that’s not an easy matter. https://lookingglassfactory.com/

210713 | News from Feral File

*The joy of collecting NFTs without credit limits. Hi BruceS, On July 20th at 00:00 GMT, Feral File will launch support for crypto payments (USDC, ETH, and BTC). We’re excited for this change because it expands your ability to collect without limits. Many credit card companies have purchase limits while others are starting to ban […]

210712 | Italian Carrara Art Marble Robotics

*An interesting local robotics angle in the New York Times article here. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/world/europe/carrara-italy-robot-sculptures.html By Emma Bubola July 11, 2021 CARRARA, Italy — For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of Italian sculptors like Michelangelo, Canova, Bernini and, most recently, ABB2. Carving […]

210712 | A year with the EleutherAI project

*That’s quite the tale of rollicking open-source adventure. abandoned bitcoin mine as imagined by nmkd https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/ (…) Since the early days of Eleuther, there always had been the humble, underutilized #art channel. While we had hoped it would be a place for ML artists of various kinds to exchange and discuss their creations, its initial […]

210712 | The Open-AI CLIP text-to-image generator

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/ (…) These models have so much creative power: just input some words and the system does its best to render them in its own uncanny, abstract style. It’s really fun and surprising to play with: I never really know what’s going to come out; it might be a trippy pseudo-realistic landscape or something more […]

210712 | A metaverse making a fuss about their carbon dioxide strategies

*They know that their skeptics are upset about the issue. That’s shy they’d doing all this publicity about it. *To claim that you will grow more real forests as customers buy more real estate in your metaverse, that has almost a poetic quality. https://medium.com/sandbox-game/the-sandbox-gets-greener-reducing-nft-carbon-footprint-by-99-and-regrowing-trees-across-the-globe-edca3bdb0fa (…) Tree Growing: The Sandbox has renewed its partnership collaboration with […]

210712 | Sir Richard Branson’s very expensive work of technology performance-art

*Look at him gloating here. If you’ve ever read over-elaborate justifications for works of device-art, there’s something familiar about this. https://www.virgin.com/branson-family/richard-branson-blog/flying-to-space-onboard-virgin-galactic (…) I said a message to all children while I was in space: I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship looking […]

210711 | The so-called “Web 3” stack

*If the Big Tech version of the Internet didn’t exist and was disrupted by blockchains.

210711 | Crowdsourcing art appraisal

*What could go wrong?

210710 | The 20th anniversary of Processing

*That’s a long time for an open-source art project. https://discourse.processing.org/t/celebrating-processing-20th-anniversary/30797

210709 | Antique Italian Coffee Grinder – Restoration

*The popularity of these machine-restoration videos is remarkable — that’s almost a million views in a month. *I’m pretty sure that building an entirely new Italian coffee grinder by hand would have less appeal for viewers. The heritage angle seems to capture the imagination. *Also, it’s Italian technology.

210709 | Reviving the extinct “Nixie Tube”

“Nixie tubes” must be the most chic form of revived historical electronics. Once they were merely functional objects, but now they’re prized for their aesthetics. It’s interesting that a craftsman like this fellow can just decide to make nixie-tubes happen again, and indeed, his restoration business is ten years old now.

210707 | NVIDIA Omniverse physics showcase

*Omniverse is a contemporary game engine, and this is NVIDIA boasting about its capacities.

210707 | Amazon’s game engine goes open-source: O3DE

*They wanted to make hugely profitable proprietary games and couldn’t do that, because making hit games is a lot harder than Jeff Bezos thought it was. *However, now “Lumberyard” is open-source. Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (…) Major features of the Open 3D Engine include a new […]

210706 | Fab Lab Barcelona wins a STARTS Prize

https://fablabbcn.org/blog/emergent-ideas/remix-el-barrio-win-top-eu-prize-for-innovative-collaboration Food-waste Biomaterial Makers supported by Fab Lab Barcelona awarded with the annual STARTS Prize JUN 21, 2021 The Remix el Barrio pilot has taken out a top award at the annual STARTS Prize. The European Commission awards the prize to projects that combine artistic expression, technology and scientific research. Remix el Barrio is a […]

210706 | At the Serpentine Research & Development Lab

“The  Future Art Ecosystems: Art x Metaverse (FAE2).” “The purpose of Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) is to provide analytical and conceptual tools and strategic guidance for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure: the systems that would support art and advanced technologies as a whole, and be responsive to a broader societal agenda.” https://futureartecosystems.org/ Dear Friends, Today we […]

210705 | FurtherList No.25, July 4th 2021

*They’re an impressively busy lot over at Furtherfield.  Just look at the length and variety of that newsletter. FurtherList No.25 July 4th 2021     FurtherList No.25 July 4th 2021 02/07/2021   Marc Garrett   A list of recommendations, reflecting the dynamic culture we are part of, straddling the fields of art, technology and social […]

210704 | Highlights of “Tech as Art:” 4

*Yet more of our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   A Collective Ethos Beyond innovating for personal projects, artists make it possible for others to learn, use, and expand artistic expression with digital technologies across ages and skill levels. The open-source toolkits created by artists, designers, […]

210704 | Highlights from “Tech as Art:” 3

*Even more of our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   Among tech-centered artists, building creative tools is a significant pursuit alongside art making, and artists develop software and hardware for both themselves and other artists. Some artists consulted in this field scan consider tool-building as central […]

210704 | Highlights from “Tech as Art:” 2

*Continuing our July 4 celebration of a new American government document about technology art.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium   Š  Arts organizations and funders face numerous challenges engaging with tech-centered artistic practices. These challenges include limited staff expertise, limited infrastructure, and difficulties in understanding how to evaluate artistic projects in this field. 
 Tech-centered artists have managed […]

210704 | Highlights from “Tech as Art:” 1

*This new federal report from the USA’s National Endowment of the Arts is so interesting and relevant that, in honor of the USA’s July 4 national holiday, I’m going to post some extensive excerpts. *They’re of direct application to things Share Festival has been doing for many years.   https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-new-report-artists-use-technology-creative-medium     This report, Tech […]

210704 | MoCDA Digital Trends Episode #22

*The NFT mavens have done quite a few of these art promotion videos, mostly for works available on the “KnownOrigins” platform.   https://www.mocda.org/about  

210704 | GPT-J, an open-source mimic of the GPT-3 neural net

*This seems like it might be significant.   https://towardsdatascience.com/cant-access-gpt-3-here-s-gpt-j-its-open-source-cousin-8af86a638b11 (…) EleutherAI project: Open-sourcing AI researchthe project was born in July 2020 as a quest to replicate OpenAI GPT-family models. A group of researchers and engineers decided to give OpenAI a “run for their money” and so the project began. Their ultimate goal is to replicate […]

210703 | OpenAI artificial intelligence writing code in real-time

210703 | Getting started with your own metalworking machine shop

*This is of interest if you’ve seen metal works of device art and wonder how they were built.  Commonly they were built with repurposed metalworking equipment in the garage of the artist’s uncle. *If you really want to lathe and grind metal, there are two things I feel compelled to say about it.  (A) Buy […]

210702 | Text to Ascii Art web toy. The old tricks are the good ones

http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Graffiti&t=Type%20Something%20          

210702 | Prominent Artificial Intelligence artists

*Hey, these people are pretty good,  and that’s an impressive list of modern tech-art creatives.   https://aiartists.org/ai-artist-founding-members  

210702 | Artificial Intelligence newsletters

  https://aiartists.org/ai-newsletters   *They list no fewer than twenty-five of these AI resources, and if you read all 25 of them you would never have time to do anything else.  

210701 | Limor Fried and Philip Torrone

*They know everything!  

210701 | Meanwhile, at V2 Lab for Unstable Media

*It’s the latest newsletter from the mavens of Dutch new-media at v2.nl.     V2_Newsletter July 2021 With corona restrictions being eased, we are happy that we can welcome more visitors at V2_. On Thursday 1 July DNK Ensemble will perform Intona Re-enacted, a re-interpretation of Dick Raaijmakers’ iconic piece Intona, with a performative exhibition running from 2–4 July. We also […]

210701 | One history of the Hic et Nunc NFT platform

*Well, what is “Hic et Nunc”?  Here’s a recently written guide.  It’s not complete.  I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s never complete. *However, it’s the best one I’ve seen to date.   https://matheussiq8.medium.com/hic-et-nunc-the-story-facts-suppositions-and-ideas-june-2021-19927f9106ad   Hic Et Nunc — the story, facts, suppositions and ideas (June 2021) Matheus Siqueira 1 day ago· 12 min read If […]

210701 | How to buy NFT art on Hic et Nunc (back in March 2021)

*We are not recommending that you actually buy NFT art from any of the numerous platforms (although Hic et Nunc is the most interesting.  However,  if you want some idea of how people do it, this is one of the methods. *Currently, Hic et Nunc got hacked and its users are selling and buying art […]

210630 | NFT collectibles categories

*I don’t necessarily believe this, but I enjoy looking at it.   The #NFT collectibles space is exploding but it isn't a zero sum game despite how some people behave. Collectibles cover many categories so the "us vs them" narratives should be ignored. Let us learn and explore 👇 pic.twitter.com/mN2WERdZgM — Allen Hena (@RealAllenHena) June […]

210630 | Like hot wire through foam core

*That’s a handsome tool, isn’t it?  Beloved for making prototype objects in design schools.  

210630 | Playing a Neural Network’s version of GTA V: GAN Theft Auto

*This isn’t too surprising if you’ve been watching AI master games like chess and go, and this works on similar principles.  But it’s still startling to see an AI simulate a computer game without using any of the computer game’s software.   *Instead, it just has a huge database of how the game visually behaves […]

210630 | A World Design Library for Torino

*This should be edifying. World Design Organization announces partnership to establish first World Design Library in Torino (Italy) Montreal (Canada), 29 June 2021 — World Design Organization (WDO)® is pleased to announce today its partnership with the Città di Torino and the Politecnico di Torino, towards the establishment of the first World Design Library™ in […]

210629 | Categories of Non-Fungible Token art products

*Those are interesting.  I’ve never seen artworks divided for sale in that way before.   *This is the HicEtNunc platform, where the artists are particularly dynamic and the users are inventing a lot of their own tools for managing and navigating the site.  

210629 | The Shredded Hologram Rose

*The new Feral File collection has been released.  It’s a series of digital works thematically related to flowers. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/fragments-of-a-hologram-rose-liz    

210628 | The 24th Generative Art International Conference

on behalf of Paul Brown paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM and celestino.soddu@polimi.it   The 24th Generative Art International Conference. We are happy to inform you that the conference will take place, in presence, at the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, located in the ancient museum citadel of the castle of Cagliari, where will also be set up […]

210628 | An example of NFT hacking

*There will certainly be a lot more.

210628 | Events at mur.at, association for net culture in Graz

*From the spectre list, a well-established and even elderly mailing list for network art. dear spectrites, please find here an announcement for the next events in our upcoming series of online events / talks run by mur.at, association for net art & net culture Graz. The next event is up for 03. July, featuring Damjan […]

210628 | Industrial decline in a manufacturing city

*This is Detroit, or, “the Torino of Michigan,” as people ought to call it.  

210627 | Langton’s Ant

  *Langton’s Ant has a lot of relatives in the generative art world.

210627 | Tools from “Generative Hut”

*These devices for creating generative art are quite interesting. *I also like it that they are generative artists and the name of their website is “Generative Hut.”   https://www.generativehut.com/tools  

210627 | Oncyber Spotlight number 3

*It’s another little NFT gallery metaverse with some curated collectibles on show. *Except for the lasting scandal that is the blockchain itself, it’s hard to understand why anybody would be upset about this.  Some of the artwork is animated and most of it is stills, but this is  mild, inoffensive, almost chocolate-box-looking graphic product.   […]

210626 | “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations” as art collectors

*DAOs are some of the oddest and least precedented actors in the NFT art space. *There are quite a few, and they don’t hesitate to lavish crypto money on artists that they favor.  

210626 | Attempting to introduce Windows 11

*Not an easy matter, apparently. *Even if one doesn’t use Windows, it’s wise to keep up with developments in the planet’s dominant operating systems.  Android, for instance. https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/microsoft_windows_11/       *And YouTube.  Naturally, you will want to learn about Windows on Google’s Youtube:  

210625 | Adam Savage displays his extensive hammer collection

*If you’ve never  seen the incessant Youtube videos of the Maker guru, they’re pretty good, as such things go.   *A lot of Savage videos are about Hollywood issues, because he’s a Hollywood stunt man and veteran FX expert, but it’s good to know about hammers.  If you want to make art devices, hammers are […]

210624 | Oral histories of the Internet by veterans

*Reminiscing is terrible, isn’t it?  It’s so much more fun to speculate!  

210623 | Quick Look: Snapmaker A350 3d printer, cnc, laser, with rotary and enclosure

*If you’re into amateur or hobby digital-manufacturing you have almost certainly seen 3DPrinters, but certain models are getting rather baroque and multifunctional here in the year 2021. *They’re cheap, as bench-top machine tools go, but they’re not “simple.”  

210623 | L’arte arriva sul metaverse di Decentraland

*Don’t buy the whole metaverse all at once.   https://cryptonomist.ch/2021/06/22/arte-metaverse-decentraland/   Le mostre d’arte sugli NFT prendono sempre più piede tra i protagonisti del mondo fisico, gallerie, artisti e case d’asta non si lasciano scappare l’opportunità di essere pionieri digitali in un settore che fatica ancora a comprendere cosa sia un non fungible token o si […]

210622 | The official revival of the European tourism and travel sector

*Meaning, of course, also the arts sector, the music sector, the museum sector and similar favorites of Share Festival. *This is a blog post by Thierry Breton, a European Commissioner involved with the European “internal market.”  As you can see, there’s more than a small amount of “new normal” involved here, and this is not […]

210622 | A new Feral file show is coming

https://feralfile.com Fragments of a Hologram Rose Announcing a new digital sculpture and video exhibition of sci-fi, otherworldly plant specimens from 11 groundbreaking digital artists, curated by Rick Silva. Exhibition Opening:  June 28, 2021  7pm EDT / 4pm PDT  Collecting Begins at 8pm EDT (NFT Editions) Mutant Bagua by Andrew Thomas Huang. Image courtesy of the […]

210621 | The International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining for 2022

*I particularly enjoy these lists of suggested conference topics.  I have no intention of going to this conference, but these lists convey a stellar overview of what the organizers think is going on. “Special preference will be given to multimedia related applications,” because everybody wants to become Hollywood. *Also, it’s easy to toss a blanket […]

210619 | Augmented and virtual reality glasses. They’re all Made In Italy

*It might seem shocking (if you’re not Italian), but, well, that’s how it is.   https://www.giganti.co/TheItalians   One of the craziest yet most common lines of argument I get when talking to people in the tech industry about the Italian eye-frames industry is their belief that the government needs to step in and break up […]

210619 | Europeans podcasting their European culture at each other

*There’s something very European indeed about this.  Out in an official pavilion, podcasting about culture, with your 70-year-old cultural foundation, “creating spaces for negotiation and imagination.”     June 16, 2021 European Cultural Foundation (ECF) The European Pavilion Podcast European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Amsterdam Netherlands culturalfoundation.eu Facebook / Twitter / Instagram The European Cultural Foundation […]

210618 | Early algorithmic art

*There’s some strong computer art here because the algorithms are so lucid.   https://dam.org/museum/artists/phase_1/   In the 1960s and 1970s, the first algorithmic drawings were created by mathematicians, engineers, and visual artists. They worked with mainframe computers in research institutions or even built their own machines. Their work was met with praise and rejection, while […]

210618 | New Pi-Top OS release June 2021

https://www.pi-top.com/   https://forum.pi-top.com/t/new-pi-topos-release-june-2021-c790-2021-06-11/895   June 2021: The latest version of pi-top OS is here! It’s been a busy few months for us since we did our last OS release back in December 2020. In this post, I will be discussing the various changes that have been made to pi-top OS since our last OS release […]

210618 | “Women Reclaiming AI”

https://womenreclaimingai.com/   …WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest.              The WRAI art-work consists of the collectively designed voice assistant and an evolving alternative visual representation of women through the use […]

210616 | The Turinese House of Emerging Technology in Soviet Union Street

https://www.eventbrite.it/e/virtual-kick-off-cte-next-tickets-158880001361     L’evento sarà l’occasione per lanciare il progetto CTE NEXT e presentare CSI NEXT, vero e proprio centro di trasferimento tecnologico sul 5G e nodo centrale della “Casa delle Tecnologie emergenti di Torino”, situato in Corso Unione Sovietica 216 a Torino.   Più in generale, l’obiettivo è quello di presentare il progetto tramite […]

210616 | Processing 4.0 is released

*Processing is quite a famous open-source project in the creative-code art world.  It’s been chugging along for two solid decades.  It’s open-source and free, so it doesn’t cost anything and you’re also able to look directly at the code and see what’s going on with it. Processing art-works are also refreshingly code-centric; they’re art which […]

210616 | Italy, Philip K Dick, labor practices in technology art, and so forth

*Here I am speaking to a home-town audience of Austin academics and telling them about technology art in. Turin.   *I also have terrible things to tell them about the career of Philip K. Dick, because professional science fiction writers know these things and academics need to know.  

210616 | Is It Artificial Intelligence at work? È l’intelligenza artificiale al lavoro?

210615 | Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Want You To Believe in NFTs

*They’re Andreesen Horowitz.  If you think NFTs lack a future, they have billions of dollars to make you think otherwise. *They launched a fusillade of propaganda with their new website “magazine,” called “Future.” ttps://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-breakthrough/ ttps://future.a16z.com/fantasy-hollywood-crypto-and-community-owned-characters/ ttps://future.a16z.com/a-taxonomy-of-tokens-distinctions-with-a-difference/   Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters “Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters Designing Internet-Native Economies: […]

210615 | Oggetti Anticonvenzionali

  *I don’t create a lot of critical diagrams, but this is one of them.  Sometimes it’s taught in design schools.      

210615 | Stealing art, but very slowly

From artiness.com, an Italian art theft committed in such slow motion that the statute of limitations has run out. It’s particularly interesting that the works vanished and fakes were created to slowly replace them.   The Headlines IN WHAT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST PECULIAR ART HEISTS to come to light in recent […]

210614 | COSA, the Clinic for Open Source Arts

https://medium.com/@chris.d.coleman/introducing-cosa-the-clinic-for-open-source-arts-af4c38fda0d3   We launched the Clinic for Open-Source Arts (COSA) to open up the conversation around the intersection of open source software and the arts. When you consider ‘open source software’ in isolation, you explore how tools are made and sustained, and when you discuss ‘the arts’ you’re probably going to look at aesthetics, creativity, […]

210614 | Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens

*Live by the blockchain, suffer with the blockchain.  If you lie down with Dogecoins, you get up with their fleas.   https://www.engadget.com/thailand-bans-meme-coins-nft-113518980.html   Thailand is the latest country to impose curbs on cryptocurrency trading. The southeast Asian nation’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented a ban on meme coins like Dogecoin. Last week, exchanges […]

210614 | Rhizome welcomes the Metaverse

If there is anything left of metaverses after ten years, probably they’ll be preserved at Rhizome.   https://rhizome.org/about/   Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as a listserve including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role […]

210613 | 25 years of Virtual Reality at Ars Electronica

*Virtual  Reality is by no means a new idea.  Whenever it revives, it tends to use some new language to re-legimate itself.   *Any “metaverse” built today will age very much like this avant-garde hardware from the Ars Electronica Futurelab.  

210613 | Transforming industries with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise

*It’s hype and vaporware.  Virtual Reality has been promising  to “transform” this and that for forty years. *On the other hand, look at the fidelity of those images and the sophistication of that simulated physics.  This is not a mere visual toy for games and consumers.  

210613 | “Navigation Basics in Omniverse Create”

*This is NVIDIA’s idea of a good time doing some metaverse construction. *I’ve noticed that the process of building metaverses is generally more interesting that being in one.  Look at the complexity of those tools, and the vast kits of objects already created. *Fewer than 300 people have seen this video.   The users are […]

210613 | The NVIDIA Omniverse

*It’s a “metaverse for engineers,” according to them. *This is a metaverse much like the others, but NVIDIA is a hardware company, so the strategy here is to maximize the purchase and use of expensive processing chips.  

210613 | UbuWeb

One can trust e-flux to have plenty of interesting news on arcane topics of this sort. “UbuWeb.  All avant-garde, all the time!”   June 12, 2021 Château de Montsoreau Kenneth Goldsmith 1996 May 22–July 1, 2021 Château de Montsoreau—Museum of Contemporary Art Passage du Marquis de Geoffre 49730 Montsoreau France Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–7pm T +33 […]

210613 | Showtime: an NFT gallery for creators and curators

https://tryshowtime.com/ Showtime, also known as tryshowtime, is yet another NFT display platform with yet another design scheme.  Showtime is not a 3D metaverse or a wunderkammer, but rather a set of flat, connected webpages where NFT collections from many different NFT auction platforms are arranged in clickable panes.   The scheme behind showtime is to […]

210613 | “Featured by Binance:” an NFT gallery directly owned by a cryptocurrency exchange

*Why shouldn’t the banker also be the gallerists, if it’s “blockchain art” anyway? *This gallery is still vaporware; it doesn’t exist.  It’s interesting to hear the cryptocoin traders describing why they want it to exist and why it would serve their commercial interests. https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html Teck  CEO of Featured by Binance 10 June 2021 Introducing Featured by […]

210612 | NFT gallery display spaces: oncyber.io

*The entrepreneurs at oncyber.io have seen the difficulties with NFT display galleries.  They’ve tried to invent a simple technical solution.   *The user can pick among four standard “gallery spaces” that oncyber already designed. *Then the oncyber system reads the user’s “wallet” and picks out any NFT properties it can recognize. *The user is then […]

210612 | Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?

*Well, no.   Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?

210612 | Decorate your metaverse parcel with your NFT art

*Instead of making a cyberspace into an art gallery, maybe it’s more commercially sensible to use NFTs to decorate a virtual space that you already own as part of a game. https://www.playtoearn.online/2021/06/12/megacryptopolis-partners-with-rarible-to-decorate-world/ City building game MegaCryptoPolis has partnered with NFT marketplace Rarible to allow players to decorate their custom building interiors and storefronts with NFTs in […]

210611 | Spatial-dot-io

*The NFT wunderkammers are multiplying as fast as we can blog them.   Some are new; others were already doing similar work and see the chance to pivot.  

210611 | Chinese Martian augmented reality

*I may be mistaken, but I think these are the first augmented reality images from another planet.     https://720yun.com/t/d9vktq8wprm?scene_id=73950360  

210611 | RareRooms

*”RareRooms” is one among many new experiments to host NFT art in virtual spaces, semi-virtual spaces, game-like spaces,  or physical spaces with screens, or  with projectors, or, well, “wunderkammers” of pretty much every descripti0n. “One description is “metaverse parcel.”  Why is it called a “parcel?” Because it’s unreal-estate of a defined dimension and it can […]

210611 | The latest commercial product from Electronic Arts

*If you’re not a gamer, you may not be aware of how cinematic immersive games are nowadays.  This is the current state-of-the-art from Electronic Arts, “Battlefield 2042.” *To view this trailer, you may be required to state that you’re over 18, because this war-game is fantastically violent. *In the meanwhile, for Electronic Arts, “battlefield 2021” […]

210611 | Unfortunate people suffering injury with Virtual Reality

*These mishaps are considered so amusing that they’ve become a genre on YouTube.  Obviously they’re hilarious, although there’s something truly pitiful about the spectacle of blindfolded, disoriented people who are bound with cables and tumbling helplessly into walls and floors. *Also, consider the cruel sensibility of someone who would film that intimate, humiliating moment and […]

210611 | Bandits attack Electronic Arts gaming company

*Oddly, this is not a ransomware attack, but these seem like some especially bold and loud criminals. *You’ll notice that they’re especially happy about seizing the company’s creative tools.  They’re offering to sell the tools to commercial rivals or to other hackers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-brea*Twench-gaming-giant-electronic-arts-steal-game-source-code/   (…) Stolen EA data worth $28 million The attackers claim to […]

210610 | Virtual reality construction tools, formerly from Google

*Google couldn’t find a mass user-base for these and decided to open-source them. *By the standards of tech-art, Tilt Brush is sophisticated while Google Poly was colossal, but they’re nowhere near the epic scale of YouTube.  So now “Open Brush” and the “Icosa Gallery” have appeared.   https://uploadvr.com/tilt-brush-open-free-pc-vr/ Open Brush, an open source version of […]

210610 | The Torino Urban Lab newsletter

*If you’re in Torino, this newsletter is a good way to keep up with some of the odder and more innovative local developments in architecture and urban planning. *Of course it’s all in Italian. 111 architetture – Torino Contemporanea: presentazione e visite guidate   Urban Lab, con la collaborazione di Ordine degli Architetti PPC di […]

210610 | Why is an “Alien Crypto Punk” worth ten million dollars?

*Well, there are reasons.  They may not be great reasons, but they do exist. https://www.christies.com/features/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx   In 2017, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, founders of New York-based software company Larva Labs, created a software program that would generate thousands of different, strange-looking characters. At first, they thought they might have had the makings of a smartphone […]

210610 | Meanwhile, in blockchain art land

June 10, 2021:   *Every Crypto Punk ever generated:  

210610 | A “Creator Economy” “Market Map”

*It has some “non-fungible token” markets in it, and those people will probably be happy to be noticed.   *Markets never actually come in rectangular boxes like this.  However, it can be interesting to ponder possible relationships between companies you’ve never heard of.   https://www.cbinsights.com/research/creator-economy-market-map/  

210610 | Inventions in camps and prisons

*No matter how difficult life may be as an “artmaker,” there’s always someone else who has it worse. *This meditation on “adversarial interoperability” is from Cory Doctorow’s “Pluralistic” list.   Today’s links * Prisoners’ Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation. * This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, […]

210610 | The winners of the Golden Nicas from Ars Electronica

*These awards are important, validating events in the electronic art world, but these dreadful Zoom meetings can’t end soon enough.       https://ars.electronica.art/press/en/ Prix Ars Electronica The Winners of the Golden Nicas 2021 Curtains up for the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2021! Emiko Ogawa (Head of Prix Ars Electronica), Martin Honzik (CCO […]

210610 | Nevada Museum of Art: Land Art Past, Present and Futures

*The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada.  They are to land art what Ars Electronica in Linz are the electronic art.  They’ve got the archives; they are the arbiters. https://www.nevadaart.org/conference2021/   Commemorating 50 years of Land Art, the Nevada Museum of Art convenes its triennial 2021 Art + Environment Season Land Art: Past, Present, […]

210609 | Mozilla Hubs/Sketchfab Interdimensional Art Gallery

*Gives one a sense of what the 3D metaverse creatives are up to lately.     When you’re putting on an interdimensional art show you need somewhere to host your party. Places, spaces, architecture, planes of existence – where will you take us!? •Create a 3D model of an imaginative and functional interdimensional art gallery […]

210609 | Carla Gannis interview

https://www.playform.io/editorial/peep-o-rama   Digital artist and early adopter of Playform Carla Gannis debuts latest VR sculpture “peep-o-rama” in new exhibit from Feral File. According to the Curator’s note by Julie Walsh, “the exhibit examines, 1) the real and (un)real in digital sculpture; 2) questions about what it means to view and collect digital sculptures; and 3) […]

210609 | Announcement: Aksioma on nettime

At Share Festival we are quite the fans of the time-honored “nettime” email list.  They help us learn what is going on in Ljubljana. Dear friends, I kindly invite you to follow the MemesteticA programme, which is running until 2 July 2021 in Ljubljana and online:   Tactics & Practice #11 MEMESTETICA 19 MAY–2 JUL […]

210609 | A Museum of Other Realities

The pandemic has fertilized the eccentricities of the festival scene. ICYMI: Cannes XR, NewImages Festival, and Tribeca Festival will launch XR3 – a shared space for viewing XR projects from their respective festivals – at the Museum of Other Realities tomorrow, June 9. The launch coincides with the opening day of Tribeca and NewImages. The VR […]

210609 | A guide to virtual reality creation apps

*Get them before Google discontinues them! Google Blocks, Google Poly, Google Tiltbrush, etc   https://www.museumor.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-vr-art-creation-apps   “From sculpting to animating, there’s a range of software for creating in VR. However, with how fast the industry changes, figuring out where to start can be daunting, so we compiled this list.   “Note that the type of […]

210609 | “Proof of Art” NFT show in Linz

https://www.ooelkg.at/en/exhibition/exibitions/detail/proof-of-art-eine-kurze-geschickte-der-nfts-von-den-anfaengen-der-digitalen-kunst-bis-zum-metaverse.html PROOF OF ART. A BRIEF HISTORY OF NFTS, FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF DIGITAL ART TO THE METAVERSE FRANCISCO CAROLINUM LINZ / 11. JUN. 2021 TILL 15. SEP. 2021 SONDERAUSSTELLUNG Duration of the exhibition: 10 June – 15 September 2021 Francisco Carolinum, Linz Francisco Carolinum presents PROOF OF ART, the world’s first museum exhibition on the […]

210608 | VR in the Turinese National Museum of Cinema

*The Museo Nazionale del Cinema, which abounds in historic media oddities, has decided to add some virtual reality to its attractions.      

210608 | Touring the Wunderkammer

A “Wunderkammer” or “wonder chamber” was a closet full of wondrous  oddities.  They flourished four hundred years ago.   When scientific disciplines matured,  and taxonomies improved, then “wonder chambers” went out of intellectual style.  But today “wonder chambers”  make sense for displays of “emerging media” or “transmedia” or “new media,” when lines of definition don’t […]

210608 | Into the Wunderkammer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities       https://agoradigital.art/blog-carla-gannis-cabinet-of-curiosities/       https://carlagannis.com

210606 | Announcement: PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2021: #BURN

*It’s a press-release via the SPECTRE list.   Greetings! Latest edition of Pixelache Festival in Helsinki starts in a few days, welcome to follow week-long online radio stream & selected AV streams from afar. apologies in advance for x-posting. PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2021: #BURN____ Press release https://burn.pixelache.ac/press Soon 20-year-old Pixelache Helsinki, a transdisciplinary platform for emerging […]

210606 | News from Serpentine Galleries

*It’s a press release from the “Serpentine R&D Platform.”   Dear Friends, Just like many, we have been following the fast-paced evolution of the NFT space, and so on Monday 7th of June at 8.30pm BST/3.30pm EDT, Serpentine’s Legal Lab is organising an event in partnership with Rhizome — From Black Boxes to Open Systems: NFTs and the Law to […]

210605 | Matt Kane: “Meules after Claude Monet” in an NFT metaverse

*This is a well-designed metaverse gallery.  The artist built it himself, although it’s hosted in the Cryptovoxels metaverse, as indeed many NFT galleries are.   *Along with a detailed story about his new NFT artwork (which is currently being auctioned  in the “Natively Digital” show at Sotheby’s) Matt Kane takes the further trouble to display […]

210604 | “Natively Digital: a Curated NFT Sale” at Sotheby’s

“As Sotheby’s auction house remarks: ‘Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale’ is NOW open for bidding! And tomorrow the multi-venue global exhibition in partnership with Samsung and SamsungUS will open in our galleries in NYC, London, Hong Kong and across the metaverse.”   *I recommend a look at these artworks, not because you ought to hasten to […]

210604 | Metaverse platforms: Roblox

It’s been a rough time for art galleries, since sharing infected air with one’s fellow art enthusiasts can be fatal.   However, this situation has been a major boost to virtual 3D environments.  Although online “metaverses” by no means new, they crash less nowadays, they’re better-designed and more entertaining, and  they have some profitable business […]

210604 | The A16Z NFT Canon

  *NFTs are an industry, and A16Z, which is Marc Andreesen’s venture capital outfit in Silicon Valley, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this space.   *There are people who claim that blockchains aren’t an industry, and that non-fungible tokens must therefore be even less of an industry.  The response from blockchainers would […]

210603 | New from NOME Gallery

Nome Gallery, based in Berlin, is one of Share Festival’s favorite galleries, since it’s run by a former Share staffer and has a lot of our favorite artists in it. We’ll be doing a lot of event announcements in the blog, especially for gallerists and events, who have really suffered.  They’re of specialized interest, so […]

210603 | NFT platforms: where the action is

*Who wants to know about ten years of dry history of crypto art?  “Show me the Lamborghinis!!”   *Because blockchains and cryptocoins are involved, everybody in the NFT space talks like that.  There’s quite a lot going on.  There are various NFT platforms with radically different payment methods and various business models.  Some are big […]

210603 | A blockchain art history timeline

  Here’s a worthy effort at blockchain art history compiled by our esteemed colleagues at “Furtherfield.”  It’s way too early for any definitive history, but they’re putting in some noble effort here, so we should profit by it.   https://decal.furtherfield.org/2020/05/22/a-blockchain-art-history-timeline/   Most artworld engagements with blockchain technologies have focused on the business of art. Artworld […]

210603 | A history of “crypto art”

  The Non-Fungible Token scene caught fire in 2021, but for a full ten years before that, technology artists were extensively experimenting with blockchains and other forms of cryptography.   Here at Share Festival it’s been our experience that the pioneers rarely get their due; it’s quite common for innovations to bubble along in the […]

210602 | Lia at Christie’s

*Lia is  yet another of our former Share Festival judges, and this is our first Artmaker blogposts which has topical news.   *We plan to place a lot of news on this blog because, after the coma of the epidemic,  there’s a lot going on among our favorite tech-art contingents; a kind of crescendo, even. […]

210602 | A recent aerial tour of Torino (by drone, of course)

  *We didn’t make this  aerial video, but Torino abounds in drones and, as a center of the Italian aerospace industry, Torino is particularly drone-friendly.  There’s also quite a lot of technical manufacturing and artisanal electronics in Torino.   *Torino looks somewhat calm and subdued in this video — because there was a pandemic going […]

210602 | More attractive Turinese amenities

*This is another of our Share Festival art jurors, Max Casacci.  As you can see, he’s laying down a techno track inside a Turinese palace.   *Here in Torino, we have an abundance of techno music and techno festivals,  and just a plethora of palaces.  This unique combo of the digital and the baroque is […]

210602 | Why you should read our new Share Festival technology art blog

*We are modest and well-mannered Turinese people at Share Festival.  We never boast of our accomplishments and our extensive knowledge of the technological art scene. *However,  since meeting us to participate in our researches, one of our festival’s art jurors has become a published author.  Also,  she will soon take command of the International Space […]

210602 | Artmaker testing post

*Torino!  Always on the move, into the future of digital art!        

210511 | Social Codes at Feral File

“Feral File” is a small and closely focussed NFT art market where the ten curated exhibits double as a gallery show. Everything sold out. It sold so rapidly that the site crashed. These are good times for the non-fungible token. You can’t be the first to “own” these works — but you can view them. […]