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*It’s like a style-transfer bazaar. https://proximacentaurib.notion.site/e2537cbf42c34b7e9a9a4126f81dfd0d?v=7b4a3c03fb654045be324eb71acc57e6
https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement Stability AI and our collaborators are proud to announce the first stage of release of Stable Diffusion to researchers via this form, the model weights are hosted by our friends at Hugging Face once you get access. The code is available here and the model card here. We are working together towards a public […]
Dear all on Spectre list! We, RIXC in Riga, are preparing the next edition of our annual Art and Science festival, which under the title SPLINTERED REALITIES will take place in Riga and virtually from October 6-8, 2022, including Deep Europe symposium (Syndicate meeting) in Riga, keynotes and featured live streams from Liepaja, Karlsruhe and […]
*Technology artists who aren’t musicians will benefit by understanding this. https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/ Music for Airports liner notes contains a graphic score designed by Brian Eno himself. Not a trained musician, and unable to read or write sheet music, Brian Eno instead used graphic symbols to denote each musical phrase or loop. Look closely and […]
*It’s a work of design fiction about the future of text-to-image generators. *It’s pretty good, too. I recommend a look at that. https://interconnected.org/home/2022/08/03/whisperer
*Houses are big. If you rebuild a house, it’s like enlisting in an army.
*I especially admire his well-organized notebook system. His use of multiple calendars is also a good accomplishment for a strategic forecaster.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-italy-intel-close-5-bln-deal-chip-factory-sources-2022-08-04/ ROME, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Italy is close to clinching a deal initially worth $5 billion with Intel (INTC.O) to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant in the country, two sources briefed on discussions told Reuters on Thursday. Intel’s investment in Italy is part of a wider plan announced by the U.S. […]
*One could die from how Turinese this is.
*Well, they wouuld be likely to know. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/03/pi_4_vulkan/ UPDATED Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton has trumpeted the arrival of Vulkan 1.2 conformance for the Raspberry Pi 4. Vulkan is an abstraction layer – like OpenGL – for game devs working on graphics-intensive apps. It’s quite the achievement both for the diminutive computer and Igalia, […]
*It seems thorough, though it’s a good thing that one doesn’t have to lift that every day.
Dear friends of HEK, Wow, what a summer! The sun is shining non-stop and the cool Rhine water is a blessing for both the body and soul. If you’re looking for a less wet way to cool off, then HEK is the right place to be. The current exhibition «Emmanuel Van der Auwera: Seeing is […]
VINYL RECORD DRYPONT PRINTS Lee Ranaldo 27 August, 6–9 pm Concert: 27 August at 7 pm Berlin, 28 July 2022 NOME is pleased to announce a concert and exhibition by the American musician and visual artist Lee Ranaldo on August 27th. The vernissage will last from 6-9 pm and at 7 pm Ranaldo will perform […]
POMPEII COMMITMENT. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATTERS LAUNCHES TWO NEW PROJECTS FEATURING INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS WHO INVESTIGATE POMPEIAN HERITAGE AND ITS MULTIPLE HISTORIES THROUGH CONTEMPORARY METHODOLOGIES In autumn 2022, Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters – the first long-term, contemporary art programme, established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii – launches its first printed publication as well as a new yearly programme of Digital Fellowships, whose inaugural participants are seven […]
OGR Torino presenta Una mostra di ARTHUR JAFA In collaborazione con Serpentine, Londra A cura di Claude Adjil e Judith Waldmann con Hans Ulrich Obrist PREVIEW STAMPA: venerdì 4 novembre, ore 11 – 13 OPENING: venerdì 4 novembre, ore 18 – 24 4 novembre 2022 – 15 gennaio 2023 Nuovi orari […]
Dear Seditioners, We’re excited to announce that the Sedition community can now engage with NFTs as a new route to own and enjoy artworks. We have just released a new feature allowing Sedition collectors to mint certain artworks from their Vaults as NFTs. For this initial phase, selected artworks by LIA, Doug Foster and […]
Salvatore Iaconesi is alive
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/v4.21.0/it/index 🤗 Transformers fornisce delle API per scaricare in modo semplice e allenare modelli pre-allenati allo stato dell’arte. L’utilizzo di modelli pre-allenati può ridurre i tuoi costi computazionali, l’impatto ambientale, e farti risparmiare il tempo che utilizzeresti per allenare un modello da zero. I modelli possono essere utilizzati in diverse modalità come ad esempio: […]
*I know clamps pretty well, but I didn’t know some of these. Also, spring clamps are like plastic zip ties; if you need one, you need a hundred.
*These tools are odd, and even surreal-looking, but if you have quite small and delicate hands, these might he the hardware choices that make the most sense for you.
Oriana Persico: ciao List, che peccato poteva durare di più, ma è stato epico fino alla fine è Il Viaggio, così lo abbiamo chiamato: è iniziato il 30 maggio scorso e conoscevamo i rischi. quando Sal/xdxd/messere (e successivamente più volte marito) se ne è andato, stavamo trasformando la casa di mia madre in una […]
ARTISSIMA SUMMER Once again this year, Artissima will be with you all summer! Starting on 1 August, at the fair’s Instagram profile – @ArtissimaFair – you can discover a new column to keep you company during the summer break: #ArtissimaSummer, a special selection of works from the most recent editions of the fair, that evoke […]
*Well, better her than me.
https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/Search/All/robot
Renzo Fantoni Passes Away at 86 Renzo Fantoni, founder of the influential Italian knife company Fantoni Knives, passed away last week at the age of 86. These days, ask any knife person where the best knives in Italy are made and they’ll tell you Maniago. Fantoni helped to establish the city’s reputation for high […]
*Look out for poisoned email. https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/wordfly_ransomware_attack/ A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to the US-based Smithsonian, Canada’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. As of right now, WordFly’s main website is […]
*He was a true friend of Share Festival. *Salvatore lived ten years after launching an epic open-source fight against a very serious brain cancer. The disease felled him eventually, but he didn’t waste that time. *What an interesting guy. I met him many times, I never knew a dull moment with him. […]
*Well, there she goes. https://nft.circa.art/
*A contemporary artist with a lot of admirers in the Maker world. ttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/arts/design/tom-sachs-seoul.html
p1xelfool: gämma Announcing a new solo exhibition with p1xelfool curated by kerry doran, and the first Feral File exhibition on Tezos. Exhibition Opening: July 28, 2022 14:00 UTC (7am Los Angeles, 11am São Paulo, 4pm Berlin, 10pm Shanghai) Collecting begins one hour later See the Price List for more details. Please join us on Twitter […]
*Hahaha, wow https://interdependence.fm/episodes/marina-abramovi-on-the-parallels-between-performance-art-and-web-3
*Hurray for us! Let Turinese artists Make Art! SHARE PROJECT è orgogliosa di presentare Cristallo di Luce di Diego Scroppo è un’installazione itinerante di arte pubblica che genera energia per le comunità locali. Un monumento contemporaneo che innesca spettacoli e azioni performative volte a raccontare modelli possibili di sviluppo sostenibile. CRISTALLO DI […]
Yesterday at a ripe old age of 93 Claes Oldenburg died. For those who may know him only as a purveyor of bloated corporate pop art of his later years may be surprised just how radical he was when he started out and just how different he was from the pop-artists who bought uncritically into […]
*It must be time to boast a little.
*Generally speaking, if nobody’s hired to maintain it, nobody maintains it. This article is from 2019. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0 On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the first ever image of a black hole. This was exhilarating news, but none of the giddy headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software. […]
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-and-nfts (…)… Each of these uses of NFTs and other blockchain technologies creates digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which does not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together. NFTs are not inclusive of all our community and create a scenario of the haves and the have-nots. The speculative pricing and […]
*It’s news from 2019, but who knew? https://mixmag.net/read/italian-astronaut-luca-parmitano-dj-space-news/ (…) Far away from the old site of the legendary Ibiza club you’re probably thinking of, Parmitano was in orbit to play tunes from the International Space Station. By DJing, we mean playing tunes from what looks to be a DJing app on a tablet, of course. […]
*Not a duo that I expected to see collaborating on a paper. All the more reason to read it. (…) “AI and the philosophy of AI have deeply intertwined histories, each bending the other in uneven ways. Just like core AI research, the philosophy of AI goes through phases. Sometimes it is content to […]
*Interesting that they’ve brought in some AI artists to test their new hardware. “Make-A-Scene” seems to be a generator intended for use in building Meta metaverses. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/greater-creative-control-for-ai-image-generation/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13131 (…) “So, how exactly would people use Make-A-Scene to bring their imaginations to life? As part of our research and development process, we’re sharing access to our […]
https://www.wired.it/gallery/dall-e-mini-trucchi/ (…) Nonostante l’atmosfera scanzonata, Dall-E è il frutto di un duro lavoro da parte del programmatore Boris Dayma che lo ha confezionato nel luglio 2021 partecipando a un contest indetto da Google e dalla A.I. community Hugging Face: per padroneggiare questo strumento servono un po’ di regole molto semplici, che spalancheranno le porte […]
*Quite a fun event if you’re into those subcultures.
*What a bizarre device to encounter, even as a prototype.
*Meanwhile, in image-generator land: https://hive.blog/hive-158694/@kaliyuga/training-your-own-unconditional-diffusion-model-with-minimal-coding About two years ago, I wrote my first how-to guide for non-coders on training custom AI models. Back then, GANs were the most cutting-edge form of AI art. Today that title belongs to Clip-guided diffusion models, but a lot of the underlying prep work for creating custom models remains similar […]
*This is really quite fun to watch. So many problems! https://pitch.com/v/DALL-E-prompt-book-v1-tmd33y
*About NFTs. Sort of. https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-marina-abramovic (…) Marina Abramović: This question reminds me of an important story. When I was 14, I asked my father to give me oil paints — because oil paints mean you are a serious artist. My father didn’t really care about art but he knew this soldier, Filo Filipović, who became […]
https://ali-design.github.io/deepcreativity/
https://edri.org/annual-report-2021/assets/downloads/EDRI_-_ANNUAL_REPORT_2021.pdf
Well, the price is right — it’s free. https://noemalab.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HumaniTies-and-Artificial-Intelligence-v1.0.pdf
*These always have something interesting. https://sableraph.notion.site/Creative-Code-News-issue-54-0ee3669e5ebc4b46b7cc01bfb0ff87d7
He confesses early on that he doesn’t tinker with Arduino or Raspberry Pi, and yet there’s nevertheless so much electronic chaos here that there’s something nightmarish about it.
*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody.
*She’s hard to describe, but in a good way. https://www.katevassgalerie.com/big-in-japan-an-exclusive-interview-with-sputniko
*YouTube Maker is still at it. Maybe he’ll complete it some day!
*Not dead, though. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/02/nft-sales-hit-12-month-low-after-cryptocurrency-crash
*And it can create printable scans.
Dear profiles, avatars, and online flaneurs, Aksioma is summoning you to: The Byzantine Generals Problem ONLINE EXHIBITION https://aksioma.org/byzantine.generals.problem 4 July 2022–end of the internet distant.gallery Curated by: Domenico Quaranta Featuring: Anna Ridler, Ben Grosser, Constant Dullaart, DIS, FaceOrFactory, Kyle McDonald, LaTurbo Avedon, Moxie Marlinspike, Nascent, Rhea Myers, Sarah Friend, Sarah Meyohas, Simon […]
https://makerfairerome.eu/it/call-for-makers Chi cerchiamo? A Maker Faire Rome cerchiamo, da sempre, chi sia capace di mostrarci il futuro dietro l’angolo, quello di cui oggi abbiamo ancora più bisogno. Inventori e innovatori: prodotti innovativi, prototipi, brevetti, progetti di ricerca, startup, crowdfunding. Quando un maker si lancia sul mercato, deve passare per Maker Faire Rome! Anno dopo anno […]
*I did not know that. Spraying objects with chalk dust so scanners can see them, that’s quite an interesting hack. https://github.com/OpenScanEu/OpenScan2/blob/main/photogrammetry_basics.md
OF DAUGHTERS AND DREAMS Priscilla Dobler Dzul Saturday, 25 June, 6–9 pm / English version / German version below NOME is pleased to announce Of Daughters and Dreams, a solo exhibition by the artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul. Her paintings, sculpture, video, and performance works have addressed notions of belonging, borders, alienation, and social inequality as […]
https://mirror.xyz/herndondryhurst.eth/eZG6mucl9fqU897XvJs0vUUMnm5OITpSWN8S-6KWamY (…) Analogies are imperfect, but this resembles the leap from the early electronic music period of manually stitching together pieces of tape to collage together a composition to the introduction of the wired synthesizer studio, or Digital Audio Workstation. In the 20th century this progress in musical tools-at-hand took place over half a […]
*Hear them out if they’re spending billions with a crowd of engineers; that’s our philosophy here on the Artmaker blog.
*Does this really need explaining? Well, yeah, it does, because if you were born when it got started, you’re an adult now.
*That was then, this is now. ‘It’s Probably Gonna Be a Huge Cry Fest’: Plunging Crypto Markets Cast a Shadow Over NFT.NYC and Its Jittery True Believers (…) Although OpenSea still holds the position of being the busiest NFT marketplace, its average selling price, the number of traders, and sales volume are all […]
*Text to image generator with prompt hacking online.
*Well, they’re nice to have. 2338 submissions to Prix Ars Electronica 2022: Golden Nicas for artists from Japan, the USA, Taiwan, Colombia and Austria (Linz, June 20, 2022) 2338 artistic projects from 88 countries were submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica 2022. The “Interactive Art +” category received the most submissions with 928 projects, […]
NATURA IN CITTÀ Raccontiamo la città che cambia Arte pubblica Geoportale, Arte per strada Torino e Geografie Metropolitane: tre strumenti complementari per raccontare l’arte pubblica del torinese L’arte urbana torinese da oggi si trova a poter contare su tre piattaforme complementari e interconnesse, che la mappano e raccontano a professionisti, turisti, cittadine e cittadini. Tre sono […]
https://thedigitalarttimes.substack.com/p/-the-new-atlas-of-digital-art “The New Atlas of Digital Art” is a conference organised by “MEET Digital Culture Center”, in collaboration with the National Museum of Digital Art in Italy (MAD), and aims to presents a wide-ranging reflection to promote and investigate the jagged scenario of digital art in Europe and highlight the potential of “digital native” […]
*Good heavens, one certainly didn’t expect that. Museo Nazionale del Cinema, 24 giugno – 3 luglio 2022 Cinema e circo, una lunga storia d’amore è il progetto, unico nel suo genere, che Fondazione Cirko Vertigo, in collaborazione con il Museo Nazionale del Cinemarealizzerà fra il 24 giugno e il 3 luglio all’interno degli […]
*I hope it does well! 15 June 2022 TODAY is the day when the Cyberfeminism Index fundraiser exhibition WETWARE curated by Mindy Seu will be opened @FeralFile. Check out the program, join us on Twitter, and not the least, purchase some NFTs if you want to support the project I am live with Maria […]
* Matrix, wow. https://feralfile.com WETWARE: Cyberfeminism Index Benefit Sale Announcing a new exhibition of eleven cyberfeminist works, curated by Mindy Seu. Exhibition Opening: June 15, 2022 14:00 UTC (7am Los Angeles, 11am São Paulo, 4pm Berlin, 10pm Shanghai) Collecting begins one hour later Please join us on Twitter Spaces for a series of conversations with […]
*There’s a lot to ponder. Dear Nettimers, one more announcement mail, this time for a series of interviews dealing critically with AI. Hope it is relevant for the list. best, Francis Five Video Interviews about AI with Magda Tyzlik-Carver, Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias, Adam Harvey, Elisa Giardina Papa and Matteo Pasquinelli »Emotion and […]
Winners 2022 selected: STARTS Prize of the European Commission for Holly Herndon (US) and Giulia Foscari (IT) (Linz/Brussels, July 13, 2022) The STARTS Prize 2022 attracted a total of 1499 entries from 96 countries, with the top prizes of 20,000 euros each going to Holly Herndon (US) and Giulia Foscari (IT). Their projects were awarded […]
*The barachin knife is the best-known craft knife of Italy’s Piedmont region (the other knife of local fame being the “Piemontese” pocketknife). After admiring the barachin for 15 years, I finally bought one of my own. *Why? I already own other knives that are much better than a barachin. The barachin is a farm tool. […]
*This isn’t what someone from Turin would say, but I like to think that for someone, it might somehow be helpful. *This is a “Bruno Argento” lecture here. Bruno is really engaged with Turin, his affection for the city is long-term and unfeigned. He pretends to be teaching Politecnico students here, but this is […]
*Subsonica as a transmedia technology-art project (circa 2009):
*The “Searchlight” edition, with some lighting design tools:
*This was a festival of recovery after two years of coma in the art world, but I was pleasantly surprised at the buoyant atmosphere, and how much fun people seemed to be having.
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Talking about Searchlight – Share Festival con Bruce Sterling e Alessandro Ludovico https://t.co/pPffP0OpjS — Torino Maker Faire (@TOmakerfaire) June 4, 2022
“Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm” https://www.hmkv.de/files/hmkv/ausstellungen/2022/HOMI/Publikation/House%20Of%20Mirrors%20Magazin%20PDF.pdf House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as phantasm curated by Inke Arns, Francis Hunger and Marie LechnerThe exhibition takes the common clichés about AI as an opportunity to talk about issues such as hidden human labor, algorithmic bias/discrimination, the problem of categorization and classification, and our fantasies about […]
https://www.arduino.cc/pro/case-studies/challenge-agriculture
Advanced technologies for Aerospace and Security
*I’ll be there!
*Golan Levin and Molly Soda, together at last. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions
A frankly bizarre Youtube makertainment production studio. https://www.youtube.com/c/EvanAndKatelyn
As part of Rhizome’s 2022 benefit sponsored by Zora, we are pleased to present Studies in Perception IV: Julie Martin, a 1/1 NFT edition, stored fully on-chain as an SVG file. This work by artist and engineer Ken Knowlton, made with the support of media historian Jim Boulton, was created using a reconstruction of […]
*It’s merely a prototype, but it’s rather handsome.
*They’re struggling to create a canon here. https://www.nft.nyc/awards Vote in any Category Innovation Most Innovative NFT Projec tAOMetaverse – @AOMetaverse Bored Ape Yacht Club – @BoredApeYC CyberBrokers – @CyberBrokers_ OpenSkyBlue – @OpenSkyBlue NFTRTFKT – @RTFKT Most Innovative NFT Smart Contract CyberBrokers – @CyberBrokers _manifold.xyz – @manifoldxyz Meta Angels – @meta_angels Pak – @muratpak […]
*It’s another text-to-image generator, and it’s pretty good. “Steampunk 3Dprinters” https://imagen.research.google/ Imagen research highlights We show that large pretrained frozen text encoders are very effective for the text-to-image task. We show that scaling the pretrained text encoder size is more important than scaling the diffusion model size. We introduce a new thresholding […]
*I really enjoyed this, because this was one of the strangest discussions I’ve ever been involved with.
*My goodness. https://spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv Before flat screens, before even cathode-ray tubes, people watched television programs at home thanks to the Nipkow disk. Ninety years ago in places like England and Germany, broadcasters transmitted to commercially produced black-and-white electromechanical television sets, such as the Baird Televisor, that used these disks to produce moving images. This early programming […]
OUVERTURE #12 | TAG ART NIGHT 28 MAGGIO 2021 ore 18,00 – 23,00 INGRESSO LIBERO L’Associazione TAG – Torino Art Galleries è lieta di annunciare la nuova edizione OUVERTURE #12 | TAG ART NIGHT 2022 che si tiene in concomitanza con i Torino Photo Days e con THE PHAIR il giorno sabato 28 MAGGIO 2022. In occasione della […]
*He likes Fiat 500s. https://zine.zora.co/reverse-again-shifting-vision-ron-arad Liam Casey (ZORA): Reverse Again is your first NFT series. Did it come to you clearly early on, or was it a completely abstract concept? Ron Arad: The mechanism is important for me. The main thing is: For what? In the old days, with architecture, the building of cardboard […]
*He wrote three other novels in German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_W._Franke
*My goodness. https://www.selfservicerepair.com/tool-kit-rental (…) What is in each kit? The tools may ship in one or two cases. For example, the iPhone 12 tool kit ships in two cases, and the iPhone SE (3rd Generation) tool kit ships in one case. iPhone 12 Case 1 661-17619 – Heated Display Removal Fixture 661-19620 – Heated […]
*This work of early cinema lacks a plot or characters, but it’s almost a catalog of his many and various on-camera stage tricks. By 1911 he was in the decline of his career and seemed to be heaping stunts up almost at random here. *Melies almost personified the turbulent ups and downs of cinema show-biz. […]
*It may be of limited relevance to the blog here, but who can’t like this?
*That’s especially interesting if you like to re-purpose electronic components for purposes undreamt-of by the original manufacturers. https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13 (…) The alternative was to treat drops, slips, cracks and battery depletion as features, not bugs. Apple could go to war against repair, and in so doing, it could capitalize on those mishaps by selling its […]
*I don’t agree with it, but it’s good to see it. https://ronancray.medium.com/the-horror-of-ai-art-9296e239d4c2 (…) AI art is derivative, which makes it less than original. You feed the computer a few words, select an established art style, and give it an image to build on. The emotion you feel is derivative, too, trained to appreciate […]
*Look at that stellar line-up of speakers. They’re not even music people, quite a lot of them. After two cruel years of plague, the culturati in Barcelona haven’t gotten any less hip. https://sonarplusd.com/ca/programs/barcelona-2022/ponents *Also, they’re streaming music to create an appetite:
*I did not expect novels to leap front and center here.
Call for Makers That’s right! Maker Faire Rome turns ten this year. Ten years of innovations and ideas that have turned into concrete projects, of inventions that have improved and revolutionised entire sectors of our society, realising things that seemed remote and even unattainable a few years ago. Ten editions that have brought together […]
*An impressive set of the great-and-the-good art-world regulars here. I can’t see how the jolt of the NFT scene has done these distinguished people any harm at all. Maybe it was a little surprising when they were locked-down in a plague and their galleries were shuttered. Otherwise, this is conventional art-business as usual — except […]
*Well, it’s definitely one of his better photos.
I now see two modes of value making: a traditional system, and a new system, where investment value and critical and aesthetic values get separated and the art is lost. Traditional value making happens over many lifetimes, as an artist goes through a bunch of consensus-making benchmarks: other artists, curators, institutions, academics, collectors. Over time, […]
milan design week 2022: DAAily fair and city guides available now! https://www.designboom.com/design/milan-design-week-2022-daaily-fair-and-city-guides-05-16-2022/ MILAN DESIGN WEEK: THE FAIR AND CITY GUIDES AVAILABLE NOW! This year, Architonic and ArchDaily join Designboom — the world’s first online magazine (born in Milan!) — in covering the ins-and-outs of Milan Design Week 2022 through the DAAily City and Fair […]
*That’s well worth a look. https://sableraph.notion.site/Creative-Code-News-issue-46-763d84f9d40a4efa943055075e124c5e
*What a pleasure to read this. So historic! https://outland.art/herbert-w-franke-casey-reas/ Herbert W. Franke celebrates his ninety-fifth birthday on May 14. Trained as a theoretical physicist, he approached art as an experimental practice aimed at understanding the fundamental nature of perception. His earliest generative works of the 1950s employed analog techniques—photographing illuminated wires and film […]
*It makes all kinds of sense, but it doesn’t have that delightful froth of financial speculation and collapse. https://blog.mollywhite.net/digital-artists-post-bubble-hopes-for-nfts-dont-need-a-blockchain/ (…) So, it seems to me that there is this group of artists who are yearning for the technical ability to create and sell digitally unique objects with verifiable authenticity in a way that mirrors […]
*Well, it’s easy come, easy go in cryptoland. https://medium.com/processing-foundation/processing-foundation-funding-update-94cddb25a3d9 Processing Foundation Funding Update The Processing Foundation supports artists, students, and educators through its free and open-source software and public programming driven by the needs of the open-source software communities we serve. We are currently in the process of restructuring and reframing how we work and […]
*The California housing crisis is so severe that she has to live on the couches of her friends, but Xyla Foxlin has some remarkably capable friends.
Beeple and his new Madonna portraits.
*Boom times for Italian tech art. http://p-dpa.net/download/almanacco-letterario-bompiani_1962.pdf
*Not entirely a “normal” art event, but it looks like they’re off their pandemic bed-of-pain, which is good news for the art world in general.
*It’s pretty good. https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-tyler-hobbs-part-1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/fact-sheet-united-states-and-60-global-partners-launch-declaration-for-the-future-of-the-internet/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Declaration-for-the-Future-for-the-Internet_Launch-Event-Signing-Version_FINAL.pdf The Internet has been revolutionary. It provides unprecedented opportunities for people around the world to connect and to express themselves, and continues to transform the global economy, enabling economic opportunities for billions of people. Yet it has also created serious policy challenges. Globally, we are witnessing a trend of rising digital authoritarianism where some states act to repress freedom of expression, censor independent […]
I am proud to present you my new book, published in five languages, starting with English (Valiz) and Spanish (Holobionte Ediciones), followed by German (Transcript Verlag), Italian (Nero) and Turkish (İletişim). The original English edition, published by Valiz (Amsterdam) can be ordered now and found in bookstores. More info here: https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform The global book […]
https://decrypt.co/98910/beeple-next-era-of-nfts-will-focus-on-emotional-connection-and-utility (…) That next project is HUMAN ONE, Beeple’s first digital and physical sculpture. Acquired by Dialectic’s Ryan Zurrer for $29.3 million at a Christie’s evening sale last year, the work has now entered the pantheon of one of Italy’s most recognizable museums, the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin. It’s being […]
*Pay no attention to these warnings! I’m sure you can do everything all at once all by yourself.
*A big outdoor show with quite a lot of artists. https://www.brixen.org/en/water-light-festival/edition-2022
*Not to make a big Milanese-design fuss about it, but I own two of these pots and can’t seem to get along without them. *Currently in Belgrade, where I’m forced to drink “instant coffee.” I’m not going to cry about it, but it’s a trial. *Actually I own two and a half De Lucchi coffeepots […]
*Easily as useful as wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman or even Leo Tolstoy. https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/ Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I’ve learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I’ve jotted down bits of unsolicited […]
Stanza – The Nemesis Machine GOGBOT Museum of the Future Part #2 with UK artist Stanza and his 36m2 mini-metropolis The Nemesis Machine opening: this Friday April 29 We are looking back at an incredible first month of our Museum of the Future, which opened on April 1. Local talents and internationally renowned artists worked […]
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/22/spectrum_at_40/ (…) Over five million of the Z80A-based devices were sold, and its impact cannot be overstated. While over 1.5 million BBC Micros (made by Acorn) may have also been sold during its lifetime, it was the ZX Spectrum that found its way into far more homes across Europe, and its impact continues to resonate […]
*Prof Eno is a figure well-known in Torino.
*How could “the worst” not be interesting? https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/22/venice-biennale-2022-the-worst-art-on-show-in-the-city (…) “It would be kind to call these works kitsch, but kitsch can have layers, humour and depth of meaning—these seem to compress historical moments into decorative wallpaper for a Miami mansion. And despite the images being in the public domain and often of people who […]
*More people in the art world should start these. It weeds out the lazy people. MOVERS AND SHAKERS Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ‘Brutally’ Early Morning Club Opens in Venice – Nearly 40 people took up the challenge to rise early on the third preview day of Venice Biennale to attend the Serpentine Gallery director’s “brutally early” […]
*It’s gonna make some kind of difference, so I guess I’ll have to watch. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_2545 https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23036976/eu-digital-services-act-finalized-algorithms-targeted-advertising
*That should be interesting. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/22/italian-collector-turns-remote-venetian-island-into-new-art-and-ecology-hub More than 200 art world luminaries—including Tate director Maria Balshaw and Venice Biennale curator Cecilia Alemani—were transported yesterday to a private Venetian island for a sneak peek of an ambitious private project backed by one of Italy’s most prominent collectors. Turin-based Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo plans to turn the island […]
*That’s a long time. Ciao 👋 , Quest’anno Fablab Torino compie 10 anni! Siamo quindi lieti di invitarti alla nostra festa di compleanno, sabato 7 Maggio. Sarà una pomeriggio per festeggiare insieme 10 anni di avventure, scoperte, ugelli intasati e tanto ancora 🚀. Parleremo del Fablab che è stato e di quello […]
*These satires are good when they’re accurate. Your Venice Biennale Bingo Card Has Arrived
Dear All The 11th International Conference Arts & Technology, Interactivity, and Game Creation (ArtsIT2022), will be held at The University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal November 21-22. Please see https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2022/ – let us know if you are interested in curating a special track of a specific topic aligned with conference title. Otherwise we hope you consider to […]
*Well, that sounds fun. THE GATES OPEN. Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist who stunned denizens of the old-school art world last year when he sold an NFT for a cool $69 million at Christie’s, is about to display his work in a museum for the first time. In the Wall Street Journal, […]
DIALOGUE James Bridle and Jonas Staal Wednesday, 27 April, 6–9 pm Artist talk: 5 pm / English version / German version below Berlin, 20 April 2022 NOME in collaboration with Laveronica Gallery is pleased to announce two parallel solo exhibitions with the artists James Bridle and Jonas Staal, with contributions by lawyer, academic, writer, and […]
https://interconnected.org/home/2022/04/20/vr (…) Given all that, here’s what made me gasp on day 1 and what I’m still thinking about. Peeping through passthrough. The way it works is that you “draw” (in VR) a box on the floor. Within that box, you are immersed in 3D virtual reality. Near the edge, you see the box […]
*This isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facial-recognition-t-shirt-block *Presumably the “Benedict Evans” who deserves credit for this interesting photograph is not the same as the venture capitalist Benedict Evans, although it would be even more interesting if it was.
*Frail… but pretty!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidias-next-gpu-shows-that-transformers-are-transforming-ai
*The aerial kite version is new and impressive.
*That’s rather a lot. Becky Stern https://www.youtube.com/c/BeckyStern Big List of Women Makers on YouTube In no particular order! Please suggest more additions! Laura Kampf Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu Simone Giertz ijessup Darbin Orvar TheSorryGirls jen foxbot The Minimalist Maker Make It And Fake It DIY Huntress Estefannie Pneumatic Addict Get Hands Dirty Crafts With Ellen Bleeptrack […]
*This list of ever-increasing woe as one spools down in this website — the spectacle is truly impressive. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
*Maybe it’s the greatest such book ever (among a great many)! There’s one way to find out. Dear All, We have the pleasure to let you know about the publication of our book, The Future of Media, coedited by Goldsmiths Media and myself, which has just come out from Goldsmiths Press. Here […]
*Users have been startling people on Twitter for a couple of weeks now. https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ “DALL·E 2 can create original, realistic images and art from atext description. It can combine concepts, attributes, and styles.” “A rabbit detective sitting on a park bench and reading a newspaper in a victorian setting”
Hello Seditioner, We’re excited to announce Sedition’s partnership with Paris NFT Day as a sponsor. Our Director, Rory Blain, will be one of the speakers at Paris NFT Day and will talk about Sedition and our story of the democratisation of art. Sedition will also have a booth at the event. Since we are planning […]
*It’s just not easy for anyone to be as chic as Milanese design people.
https://paletten.net/artiklar/this-is-financial-advice Under the banner ‘artists should get paid,’ the flag of crypto-finance was planted in the collective imaginary a little more than a year ago: down with gatekeepers, decentralise the art world. Very soon after the sale of a digital file in .jpg format for the equivalent of 69 million dollars in .eth, the promise […]
*For the time being, maybe. https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/
*I’ve never seen that done live. That’s quite the behind-the-scenes video situation there.
*It’s nice to see plans for an epic Italian exposition, and I guess that’s still far enough away that nobody has to panic yet.
via e-flux. Application deadline: April 22, 2022, 11pm Krater SI- Ljubljana Slovenia krater.si Facebook / Instagram Trajna association, in cooperation with the Centre for Creativity, at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, invites architects, landscape architects and designers to The Feral Palace open call. Multispecies Design Challenge introduces principles of zöonomic methodology, multispecies […]
*I’ve never seen a Mari piece knocked together on the cheap by some innocent person with no idea what they’re doing; building them is always some kind of spiritual practice by somebody associated with the design world.
*One has to like his air of utter simplicity, as if the viewer has never before experienced the existence of a board or a nail.
*I once did this myself — I made a small Mari bench out of sliced cardboard, just to prove to myself that it worked. *They work, but they’re bulky, heavy and the simple nailed joinery tends to come apart. Of course you could just pick up the hammer and whack them together again, and if […]
… as UNESCO World Heritage buildings.
“The Race to Archive the Ukrainian Internet “In times of war, preservation is more critical than ever—cultural artifacts, historical collections, and important records are often targeted and erased. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, the Internet Archive has been a crucial member of the effort to preserve Ukrainian websites, datasets, and digital resources before they’re […]
*They’re not Artmaker bags, but they have similarities. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/02/emergency-bags-packed-for-quick-getaway-activists-fires-floods
*I was sick then, but I got better!
*What a fantastic contraption. And over four thousand of them were built! *So farfetched that it might pass for an April Fool’s joke, and yet it’s real.
*One has to wonder about this strange and very expensive experiment in regionalised technology.
*They’re occurring in-person again! It’s good news for the world! I hope nobody gets sick and dies, but the risk is worth it for the sake of the cause! Dear Bruce, I am happy to invite you to our second event of 2022, MoMA R&D Salon 38: IP: Imperious Property taking place on Monday, April […]
*That’s rather informative. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/repository/document/2022-13/22020329_Chips_Act_Package__Complete_I7LhdGOvIcf7Qbud9zgZlIPiWrA_85575.pdf
https://supplyframe.com/resources/italy-semiconductor-investment-intel/ The Italian government recently announced a $4.6 billion investment in domestic chip manufacturing, to be completed by 2030. This is a direct attempt to secure the country as the location of Intel’s next European fab site, and all the attending jobs and tax revenues that come along with it. Rome will use tax revenue, […]
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-spreads-chip-investment-across-six-eu-countries-race-boost-supplies-2022-03-15/ (Reuters) – Intel has picked Germany as the site for a huge new chipmaking complex, giving the first details of a $88 billion investment drive across Europe, which is striving to cut its reliance on imports and ease a supply crunch for manufacturers. The plan is the latest by a major semiconductor maker as […]
https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/who-makes-it-work/
https://hackathons.cassini.eu/tools
https://torino.corriere.it/economia/22_marzo_28/massimo-banzi-scontiamo-limite-culturale-qualcosa-innovativo-se-viene-validato-dall-america-1c310bee-ae6c-11ec-89b4-33ef6a8626b0.shtml (…) Arduino è più noto e utilizzato all’estero che in Italia, il 50 per cento dei ricavi è made in Usa. «Purtroppo ancora oggi scontiamo un limite culturale. Qualcosa è innovativo se viene validato dall’America. A noi è successo così quando la scheda Arduino è stata utilizzata da una Università di New York. Eppure […]
Dear friends, Aksioma is proud to present a new publication: (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal [A READER] aksioma.org/reprogramming.book Marta Peirano in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Benjamin Bratton, Holly Jean Buck, Anab Jain, Kate Crawford, Joana Moll, Astra Taylor and Eyal Weizman Editors: Marko Bauer, Janez Fakin Janša —– What will it take for humanity to […]
With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, and for the next 3 years, the European Media Art Platform (https://emare.eu/) expands its residency program for artists duos, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art to residencies in 15 countries. European artists or collectives can […]
*The participants seem pleased with the developments. https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-robotics Ten years ago this week (more or less), the Open Source Robotics Foundation announced that it was spinning out of Willow Garage as a more permanent home for the Robot Operating System. We covered this news at the time (which makes yours truly feel not quite so […]
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/tom-moody-dead-1234622521/ Tom Moody, a net artist, musician, blogger, and art critic, died this past Saturday morning from Covid-related complications and pneumonia, according to his gallery, And/Or in Pasadena, California. Moody was in his 60s. Moody was committed to lo-fi internet aesthetics through the use of old software, sometimes termed abandonware, like MSPaintbrush. He was involved […]
*I won’t read all of this, but I’ll definitely read some of it. https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/#individual-chapters “The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes […]
*Enjoy!
*I know that this is silly. However, it’s also funny.
*I should try to figure out what this is, except that, in Torino, it’s impossible to keep up with everything even if you have a staff of one hundred dedicated European researchers.
*Ouch.
*Chips used to be mere commodities that you would cheerfully throw away because Moore’s Law would quickly guaranteed you new and better ones. *Not any more, though. That was then, this is now. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/european-chips-act-communication-regulation-joint-undertaking-and-recommendation (…) Member States should provide to the Commission information for the purpose of mapping factors, trends and events that could lead […]
*Their event survived the plague and they want new Maker robots for their wars. https://www.makerfight.fr/faq/ https://www.makerfight.fr/blog/makerfight/makerfight-2022-appel-aux-makers-1325/
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/european-chips-act-factsheet
https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-218056?&lg=EN/EN
“Cybersovereignty,” now more than ever, thanks to plague and war. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_729 (…) Members of the College said: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “The European Chips Act will be a game changer for the global competitiveness of Europe’s single market. In the short term, it will increase our resilience to future crises, by enabling us […]
*It will take quite a while.
*It’s nice that these are actual chairs, with real lumber and real joinery, as opposed to lasercut-plywood and glue Maker chairs.
*It’s not another universe, it’s just software. https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/what-is-metaverse-as-a-service-maas/
*That’s quite a legal and military spectacle. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.065.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A065%3ATOC COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2022/350 of 1 March 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular […]
https://www.guerredirete.it/il-grande-puzzle-del-metaverso/ (…) La seconda ragione è che nel 2021 Facebook/Meta ha investito nello sviluppo di tecnologie legate al metaverso una tale quantità di denaro che i suoi Reality Labs (la divisione che si occupa delle tecnologie in realtà virtuale e aumentata) hanno fatto segnare 2,2 miliardi di dollari di ricavi e 10 miliardi di perdite […]
*As Jimmy Carter said many decades ago, an energy crisis is “the moral equivalent of war,” except when it’s an actual war, in which case people tend to forget about the moralising. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_1511 (…) REPowerEU – eliminating our dependence on Russian gas before 2030 Phasing out our dependence on fossil fuels from Russia can be […]
*An image from her Twitter stream.
*One of her odder screeds lately. https://pad.profolia.org/s/chekhovs_gun The plan was to write a description for a series of lectures and conversations at Merz Akademie in upcoming semester, but it became a manifesto, I’d like to share with you. Disarming Chekhov’s Gun The mantra passed down from generation to generation “you can’t put a loaded gun […]
*An interesting example of a modern artist’s newsletter for his fans and devotees. In the latter half of 2021, Refik embarked on a whirlwind tour traveling to New York, Miami, Milan, Dubai, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Abu Dhabi, and Glasgow for exhibition openings, installations, art festivals and even a climate conference! We have been extremely fortunate […]
*Torino has a long-defunct clock-tower machine that could likely be fixed in this way.
*It’s a press release. Also, this seems like an unusual device. All eyes on Nicla Vision: the new ultra-compact, low-power solution that combines machine vision and edge computing _ Analyze and process images on the edge, with Arduino Pro’s new ready-to-use, standalone intelligent camera. Arduino PRO announces Nicla Vision, the new addition to its Nicla […]
*Or fleeing out of it. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-ukraines-art-community-remains-defiant-face-war (…) All of that vanished overnight. In what seemed like an instant, the future Ukrainians had been building for themselves was completely upended. On February 23rd, galleries in Kyiv like Tuasho Gallery, ArtEast Gallery, ArtCult, Triptych, Abramovych Art, Voloshyn Gallery, and many others closed for the evening and did […]
https://nadd.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/open-call-network-archives-design-and-digital-culture-research-residency-2022 Open Call: Network Archives Design and Digital Culture Research Residency 2022 The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture invites applications for a Research Residency taking place over the three-month period September – November 2022. The residency programme aims to explore the potential of networked infrastructures for archival practices in design and digital culture. What […]
*Adafruit has been getting into antiquarian “dead media” lately, and I deeply appreciate their discoveries like this. *The future-of-electronics is a kind of electronic-history that hasn’t happened yet. https://www.wallpaper.com/design/soft-electronics-book-jaro-gielens-gestalten
*What magnificence.
*If you have never heard of Andy Goldsworthy, you should research him. Ypu’ll be grateful that I mentioned him, even if you don’t like his profoundly different and unusual artwork. Andy Goldsworthy: Firehouse Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM At our new home in Fort Mason Celebrating 30 years of […]
https://www.festivaldellorientetorino.it
*These are more like rules of thumb or proverbs than “laws,” but I’ve heard some of them many times and, having seen some of them in practice, I tend to believe them. https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws (…) Conway’s Law Conway’s Law on Wikipedia This law suggests that the technical boundaries of a system will reflect the structure of […]
*I hope not. https://mailchi.mp/dc3cac95ba0e/competenze-a-pettine-4939597?e=18c93370d9
*As one would expect, given the circumstances. As Two Prominent Museum Officials Depart, Russian Institutions Face Chaos Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Putin-affiliated trustees at international museums have resigned, blockbuster exhibitions have been suspended, and preparation for both countries’ Venice Biennale pavilions has ground to a halt. This week, it also became clear that […]
“Being a Maker — it’s a gear sport.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/pi_at_10/ One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Eben Upton on RISC-V, supply chains, and what’s next for the dinky computers Richard Speed Mon 28 Feb 2022 // 12:31 UTC INTERVIEW Today marks 10 years since the Raspberry Pi was made available to purchase. We spoke to Pi supremo Eben Upton about the […]
*Of course this is the opposite of decades of cheap, globalised chips made by offshored labor and supply chains. *These aren’t market-centric chips; these are militarized chips and part of the military-industrial complex. The government subsidy money (in theory) goes to the most military-centric chips, and not to consumer electronics. *It’s certain to have an […]
*Many old arguments are rehearsed yet again here. https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/03/why-the-world-must-resist-calls-to-undermine-the-internet/ It seems that every time there is a large political event in the world, someone calls for someone else to be excluded from the Internet. The latest call to cut people off comes in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Internet Society must […]
*This sure makes some melancholy reading. The Headlines THE WAR IN UKRAINE. A Russian attack in the area of Babyn Yar Kyiv, the site of a Nazi massacre of Jews, has been condemned by Jewish groups, the New York Times reports. It was not immediately known to what degree a memorial recently unveiled there was […]
Dear friends of HEK, March not only brings spring vibes, but also a varied programme at HEK. The exhibition «Swiss Media Art: Marc Lee, Chloé Delarue, Laurent Güdel – Pax Art Awards 2021» is still open for you and runs until 24.04.2022. Enough time to immerse yourself in Swiss media art. Speaking of immersion: If […]
https://www.adafruit.com/explore/tools *They’re Adafruit, that’s why they’re offering lock picks.
https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/02/28/arduino-week-2022-call-for-organizers/ Arduino Week takes place between 21-26 March, 2022, marking the first time we’ve expanded the birthday celebration into a full week of talks, events, launches and presentations. We’re reserving the last day of the week (Saturday, 26th March) for these community-driven events; putting the spotlight on your celebrations for the big finale. We recently […]
*Plagues don’t actually set museums on fire, which is why plagues are a little kinder to the art world than war is. *They’re not kinder by much, though. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/maria-prymachenko-paintings-ivankiv-museum-destroyed-1234620348/#recipient_hashed=c390e8ed4db57a34278dcf667f928a643cf769a865c8a8632dcd310412bb9a99
*A pandemic wasn’t bad enough. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/28/russian-artists-pull-out-of-venice-biennale-over-war-a76659 The 2022 Venice Biennale, which opens on April 23rd, will no longer have Russian representation. Following the invasion of Ukraine, artists Kirill Savchenkov, Alexandra Sukhareva and curator Raimundas Malašauskas withdrew their participation for Russia’s national Pavilion. On Sunday, in a joint post on social media, Savchenkov and Sukhareva wrote, “There is no […]
View Exhibition http://vasa-project.com Exhibition Curator: Igor Manko and Yaroslav Solop VASA exhibition by six Ukranian artists: Gera Artemova Fall of Carthage; Melanka Marina Frolova UGLY project. Nikita Viacheslav Poliakov Lviv – Gods Will Kostia Smolyaninov Street Theography Yaroslav_Solop The Last Haven Elena Subach Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven An artistic mind is intrinsically sensitive […]
*Also, it’s old, picturesque and decaying, so that ought to be a proper source for endless YouTube Maker videos.
*Geng Shuai or “Handy Geng” is a Chinese video “influencer” from Dinxing county in the Hebei province of China. His comical contraptions have been a popular hit, so in this YouTube video, he gives a tour of his new Maker entertainment space. *Handy Geng does rather a lot of electronics hacking, especially as comedians go. […]
ARDUINO’S BIGGEST EVER CELEBRATION MARCH 21-26, 2022, IS ARDUINO WEEK, THE WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION OF ARDUINO. _ A week long event full of talks, announcements and presentations to give space to friends, partners and all the entire Arduino community. It’s a mix of official activities organized by Arduino and community events around the globe. A whole […]
Maria Hassabi – HERE curated by Samuele Piazza with Nicola Ricciardi BINARIO 1 Nina Canell – HARDSCAPES curated by Samuele Piazza with Lorenzo Giusti BINARIO 2 From February 25 to March 27, 2022 Free entrance From Thursday to Sunday, from 12 to 8 pm OGR Torino OGR Torino – Corso Castelfidardo 22, Torino www.ogrtorino.it […]
*Americans can’t help but admire this stuff. Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection February 21–May 7, 2022 Modern Eclecticism: Carlo Mollino Architect & Designer: February 24, 6:30pm, Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino Yale School of Architecture 180 York Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA www.architecture.yale.edu RSVP Inspired by turbulent global events in the […]
Jasmina was in top form at this event.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-craft-of-artisanal-computer-manufacturing It’s a tough time in electronics manufacturing, especially for small outfits. The Great Semiconductor Shortage is driving up the cost of components—if they can be found at all. But Stefany Allaire has not been deterred, delivering products and developing new ones for her dedicated community of customers. Allaire runs Feonix Retro Systems, which caters […]
*This article is impressive. It’s really plunging into the tall weeds. https://becominghuman.ai/a-primer-of-29-interactions-for-ai-866164ab12f0 (…) Regressors “Regression analysis” sounds like some kind of psychology thing, but it’s a math thing. These algorithms look at the relationship between two or more variables to find correlations, allowing them to predict one variable based on the others. This can include […]
*Those are remarkable. https://www.bhoite.com/sculptures/
*It looks like it worked.
*I think I rather need one of these badges, although it’s by no means a good safety practice. https://www.tested-store.com/listing/overloaded-power-strip-badge?product=1789
*Maybe. https://cultura.gov.it/comunicato/22289 Testo del comunicato “Stiamo lavorando per recuperare dei luoghi bellissimi che potranno diventare dei grandi attrattori di turismo culturale nel futuro. Abbiamo un patrimonio enorme da salvare, da recuperare e da restaurare, non solo nelle grandi città”. È quanto ha dichiarato in diretta al Tg1 il Ministro della Cultura Dario Franceschini. “Il turismo […]
*This seems like an interesting initiative. https://www.arcadia.science/post/arcadia-and-icor-experiments-in-open-science Arcadia and ICOR: Experiments in Open Science One of the foundational elements of Arcadia is our mission to push the boundaries of open science and to develop new ways of sharing our knowledge and engaging with the broader scientific community. This is a big goal and to achieve […]
“First, let’s get the specs out of the way,” but the specs never get out of the way, because this is electronics.
*Electronics manufactures, what strange people they are. *It took a year for me to catch up with this, but now that I’m in bed sick, I have the time.
*These are the simple ones! Children can use them! *Ask a schoolchild near you why a “python” would need “boots.”
*Let’s hope I don’t share it with anybody.
https://news.bitcoin.com/ertha-metaverse-sells-rome-nft-for-record-120k/ (…) Rome no longer belongs to the Romans, but to the buyer who spent $120,000 for the privilege to call one of Europe’s most famous cities their own. Not only do they now have control of world-famous landmarks such as The Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain, but also Vatican City, the home of the […]
*One of the greatest living tech-artists.
*An interesting meditation on “dead media” and the nature of technological innovation.
*If you’re in financial ruins after reading this, it’s entirely your own fault. https://airtable.com/shraQiFHFxU7rm7Wv/tblBVGLgh1XQpun1b
*You never know what you might make from old bones.
*Not bad for a YouTube Makertainer.
*That’s one of the hairiest open source device-art projects that I’ve ever seen. These guys have been at that labor for years.
*It’s packaged for children, but there’s a lifetime of trouble in there.
*This video is verging on self-parody, but if you like shop gizmos, he has them.
https://zeropiu.eu/course-view/sul-femminismo
https://v2.nl/files/2022/pdf/40-years-of-v2_-english-pdf
*Look at all those different screws in electronic consumer devices. What an industry. https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Pro-Tech-Toolkit/IF145-307
*These backgrounds they’ve chosen are really delightful.
*It’s become a foundation now, but it still has a lot of the maestro’s works on the shelves, along with some of his favorite inspirations.
*Wow!
*How is it even possible that fewer than 800 people have looked at this video? This is fantastic.
*Just don’t get it wet, use it as a hatchet or pry anything with the tip.
*It’s nice to have a YouTube shop where you can casually slice and punch through large structural-steel construction elements.
*”Mentale Strumentale” is one of the best Subsonica records BECAUSE it had no commercial potential and couldn’t even get released into the Italian pop market. *It may not be possible to be more Turinese than Subsonica.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05263 Submitted on 10 Feb 2022] Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis Matthew Tancik, Vincent Casser, Xinchen Yan, Sabeek Pradhan, Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Jonathan T. Barron, Henrik Kretzschmar We present Block-NeRF, a variant of Neural Radiance Fields that can represent large-scale environments. Specifically, we demonstrate that when scaling NeRF to render city-scale […]
From 2d snapshots to 3d virtualised reality, with a neural net.
“Call for Music Makers” Now Open Maker Music Festival [and Campus] First Call Open through March 27, 2022 Occidental, CA — February 8, 2022 – Calling all Music Makers! You are invited to participate in the 2nd annual, 2022 edition of the Maker Music Festival [and Campus]. The Maker Music Festival is a VIRTUAL gathering […]
*Hey, these are nice! *Back in the old days of spectacular urban ruin: *Huge renovation project: *It’s glorious!
A golden floor and a carpet of seashells at Binari 1 and 2 of the former Officine Grandi Riparazioni: OGR Torino Art semester begins In Turin, great protagonists of the international contemporary art scene, Maria Hassabi and Nina Canell, collaborations with local, national, and international top-notch organization, up until the project in Venice for the […]
*They’re not for it; they’re against it, and also, angry about it. https://fuckstealingart.com Has your art been stolen in the form of an NFT? Consult the links on the left to see if this resource can help you. This website is a quickly rushed resource in an attempt to help artists take some sort of […]
“The Award for Digital Humanity,” that seems novel. https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/opencall/ The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are eligible for the coveted Golden Nica awards and monetary prizes of up to 10,000 euros in each category. They will also be featured at the Ars Electronica Festival from September 7 to […]
*Naturally she adapts the plans of another makertainer who is also active on YouTube.
https://www.crafthub.eu/maker-exchange-residencies/ Maker Exchange Residencies are a central part of the newly funded EU Craft Hub project which will showcase the wealth of European Craft practice and address sector challenges through artist residencies, training workshops, exhibitions, conferences, and a European Festival of Craft. Between March – July 2022 Craft Hub will run a series of 5 […]
*What a character. https://www.artforum.com/print/200304/my-80s-better-than-life-4509 (…) But that immediate embrace was a warning that caused me to set a different course for Semiotext(e) during the ’80s: Success was a sign that the group was becoming closed and too dependent on the opinions of art institutions. (Guattari had written extensively on subject and subjected groups, and I […]
Neri Oxman Nature x Humanity Wednesday February 16, 02022 at 7:00pm PT Join us for the upcoming livestream of this talk on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Long Now Live This talk is presented in conjunction with Neri Oxman’s new exhibition at SFMOMA. Encompassing 40 installations and artworks, the exhibition illuminates her design practice, founded to […]
*What a pleasure to watch this. Heritage is a wonderful thing.
*Laura Kampf never hesitates to go for the Frankenstein solution.
*Have the authorities been informed?
Dear spectrers, Fronte Vacuo, the artist group I co-founded with bioartist and performer Margherita Pevere and media designer Andrea Familari, would like to invite you to experience our new durational performance Humane Methods [∑XHALE], co-produced with Volkstheater Wien, tanzhaus NRW and CTM/Club Transmediale Berlin. Please see the premiere and tour dates below. ∑XHALE is the […]
*Art language is rather amusing. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/27/arts/human-created-this-guide-cyberarts/
https://www.rightclicksave.com/ Right Click Save (RCS) is a new online magazine that seeks to drive critical conversation about art on the blockchain.Its aims are as follows: To engage readers about the ongoing topical and historical importance of NFTs to culture. To give artists and collectors of the NFT space the same level of respect afforded those […]
*Maker communities certainly are network-centric. Without some digital sociality, nothing can happen in the “ecosystem.” https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/circuitpython-in-2022-circuitpython2022-circuitpython/ As 2022 starts, let’s take some time to share our goals for CircuitPython in 2022. Just like past years (full summary 2019, 2020, and 2021), we’d like everyone in the CircuitPython community to contribute by posting their thoughts to […]
As you can see, rather a lot of curatorial problems immediately surface. How do you buy it, maintain it, service it, repair it, deploy it? Also, why would anyone look at it? This YouTube video has well over two million hits.
*They cost no more than children’s toys do.
*I like the informality of this.
“Includes serrated blade, can opener, inch rule, needle nose pliers, bolt gripper, soft wire cutter, straight-edge blade, awl, jewelry driver, hook cutter, file, mm rule, magnetic bit holder, wire crimper, bevel gauge, scissors, bottle opener, #1 Phillips.” https://sogknives.com/powerpint/ The most interesting aspect of this modest multi-tool are the power-assisting gears on the tiny pliers, which […]
*I bought one to carry around here in Texas. It’s a decent multitool for its modest size, weight and price.
*Lia’s vivid generative art can be a difficult to display, so the way this gallery has arranged that inside what seems to be a traditional Turkish multi-story mansion, that’s quite a curatorial feat. *They’re using a “Matterport 3D Virtual Tour,” among other things. https://www.kalyonkultur.org/lia-hayati-kodlamak/
*This seems like an excellent way to slice your fingers with jagged edges of thin metal, but he is unperturbed, and deploys his specialized implements with great confidence. *This YouTube channel of lost Spanish rural crafts has a lot of interesting work for the scholar of obscure tools.
*That was indeed a difficult year, but they’re always up to something. https://makezine.com/2021/12/23/make-2021-year-in-review/
*Look at that set up. Presumably, along with using that smartphone for handy web searches, he also uses it to record some close-up video of construction processes.
*I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of these.
https://github.com/processing/processing4/releases/tag/processing-1279-4.0b4 Revision 1279 – 24 January 2022 Loooots of changes under the hood to better support more platforms. And by that, we mean Apple Silicon (now in alpha!) and Raspberry Pi devices (once again). And whatever else gets cooked up in the coming years. For the Windows users, the scaling issues have finally been sorted […]
*It’s harmless good fun.
http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics Chapter 1: Emanuele Arielli. Chapter 1 – Even an AI could do that. Published December 15, 2021 Chapter 2: Lev Manovich. Chapter 2 – Who is an artist in software era? Published January 18, 2022. Book info: Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli. Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design. 2021-2022. Book […]
Popular search query: “Making Millions with NFTs!” Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. Time to auction off our criticality. In a single year, NFTs have gone from obscurity to superstardom. Are NFTs, DeFi and gamified decentralized apps the new way for the disenfranchised to (finally) get paid? Or are they […]
*You need a scorecard to name and number the players. *If you end up rugged, rekt or in prison for fraud, don’t blame this blog post. https://blog.coinbase.com/a-simple-guide-to-the-web3-stack-785240e557f0
https://distributeddesign.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/This-Is-Distributed-Design-Book-by-Distributed-Design-Platform.pdf
*Much like her Makertainment colleagues on YouTube, Evan & Katelyn. *When they say “pandemic” they mean it’s for everybody.
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-mostly-complete-chart-of-neural-networks-explained-3fb6f2367464
*She collects news about blockchain and NFT scandals, and she doesn’t lack for material. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
*That kept me busy for a while. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/516/State-of-the-World-2022-page01.html
*Those have more design variety than mousetraps.
https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/ Submissions now open: Prix Ars Electronica 2022 begins today (Linz, January 13, 2022) Projects can be submitted for the Prix Ars Electronica from now until March 2, 2022 (inclusive). The world’s longest-running media art competition is looking for outstanding works and projects in the categories “Computer Animation,” “Digital Communities,” “Interactive Art +” and “u19 […]
*Where is Gianduja? https://iltorinese.it/2022/01/13/arlecchino-furioso-e-peter-pan-per-un-week-end-di-puro-divertimento/
Field Guide Announcing a new exhibition of five artists who use generative art to create new universes and breathe life into novel forms. Exhibition Opening: January 20, 2022 14:00 UTC+0 (6am Los Angeles, 11am São Paulo, 3pm Berlin, 10pm Shanghai) Collecting begins one hour later Feral File and Bitmark are pleased to announce the gallery’s […]
*BattleBots, the American TV series. A highlight reel on Youtube.
https://mirror.xyz/nnimrodd.eth/s4gU0NnIEFBnM0wKcCXyWAcyNHl94ooLCs5RHWdnBiY Wagmi Fallacy by Nimrod Kamer 0xC7D9 January 10th, 2022 How to tame your Web 3 ego while not losing it on Discord Don’t buy art you like, only art you can get rid of. 10% of us are builders. The other 90% should just Connect Wallet and chill. Buy JPGs with an active floor. […]
Science, Technology & Arts – STARTS STARTS Prize 2022 Submissions Now Open (Linz/Brussels, January 11, 2022) The STARTS Prize 2022 of the European Commission is calling on artists, scientists, technologists, institutions, labs and companies to submit their best projects starting today. This year, as every year, we are looking for groundbreaking works at the intersection […]
*Well, why not her? “The reward for good work is more work.”
*It certainly is big. REALLY big. *Probably I could do nothing for the rest of my life but pick around in there. https://ars.electronica.art/about/en/archive/
https://sguardisutorino.blogspot.com/2022/01/con-mrt-virtual-i-musei-reali-di-torino.html L’emergenza sanitaria in cui ci troviamo immersi da quasi due anni ha cambiato il nostro rapporto con il digitale, che è diventato essenziale nella vita lavorativa, ma anche nel modo in cui fruiamo della cultura: mostre, musei, eventi. Dopo una prima fase in cui la modalità a distanza è stata l’unica possibile, oggi il […]
*This article is better than I expected. https://hyperallergic.com/703310/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2021-edition/ (…) 9. Afghan Artists at risk — After two decades of American occupation, Afghan artists were left to the mercy of the regressive Taliban regime, with some facing immediate danger to their lives. Afghani groups in the diaspora and their allies have continuously pleaded with the US […]
*Avanti Savoia!
*This doesn’t really belonng here in the Share Festival Artmaker blog, but it’s nevertheless very interesting culturally. *It arrived today in email. In the next few decades, virtually every financial, social, and governmental institution in the world is going to be radically upended by one small but enormously powerful invention: the blockchain. Do you believe […]
https://medium.com/design-fictions/2021-a-year-in-a-list-15a789cdb109 FROM: The Near Future Laboratory SUBJECT: 2021 — A Year In A List The Near Future Laboratory isn’t a ‘normal’ organization by any means — we’re a distributed network of accomplished practitioners based in five different cities in California, Mexico, Switzerland and Spain. We each have our own personal interests but come together through […]
*It may not be correct, but it’s guaranteed to be brainy. https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/
*Our much-considered futurist discussion is a tradition decades old! https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/516/State-of-the-World-2022-page01.html
*This is from almost a year ago, but there’s still a lot of gimmicky novelties on display here.
*It’s been ten years since Google Glass. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/smart-glasses-have-a-lot-of-work-ahead-in-2022/ (…) Will someone figure out how we interact with these glasses? There’s no mouse or trackpad or keyboard for AR. There isn’t even an agreed-upon controller. While VR headsets generally tend to have dual controllers that look like a gamepad split apart, AR headsets tend to either […]
*Street art is not NFTs, and it’s not in the galleries either, but the pandemic doesn’t slow it down much. https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/most-beautiful-murals-2021/47-nerone-new-brighton
*Benvenuti, MMXXII! “Just weeks after being acquired by Nike Inc., NFT studio RTFKT collaborated with leading NFT gallery Oncyber to jointly launch Space Pods.” https://blokt.com/news/space-pods-a-stunning-way-to-show-off-your-nfts-in-the-metaverse
*Why not? https://www.davidedileo.com/musicisart
#MFR2021 – Maker Music: Cubo Session Max CASACCI + Studio Clichè Live @ Gazometro Ostiense
*Wow! https://www.artribune.com/professioni-e-professionisti/who-is-who/2021/12/intervista-alessandro-sciaraffa/
https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/la-persona-del-2021-l-enigma-beeple/137688.html
*This is less than a coincidence. *The business about fraud entering the prop collectible space is also quite interesting. They’re not real, they’re “props,” so how to you get an authentic one?
*There’s Laura Kampf, whose aesthetic philosophy consistently leads her to make useful objects out of society’s throwaway junk. “That’s a particularly Frankenstein-looking gadget that she’s cobbled up there, even by Laura’s generous standards. *You’ll notice that the guy who inspired this project, “Felix,” gets recruited by Laura as her Youtube videographer. Then she encourages her […]
*This is not a punk table made of scrapwood and junked electronics; this is a vast slab of epoxy with some scrap wood and electronics suspended inside of it. *Evan and Katelyn are also makertainers who are very given to the use of epoxy; it’s a YouTube trend that’s not so much “machining” as public […]
*I always wondered what the armadillo sounded like.
*Well, I read it, and now you can too. https://xdxd-vs-xdxd.medium.com/nft-12cb8583ca23
*Nice retrospective there. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/2021-year-of-the-nft-1234614022/
*The word “paper” comes from the papyrus plant, but this very ancient written medium certainly has a turbulent modern history. ]https://youtu.be/SBdVhvo2UUM
*The guy who coined the term “Web 2.O” discusses Web3, and it’s well worth a look. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/
Oh the joy! Literal years of our curatorial labor! *At Via Egeo 16 in Torino.
*This thread of Twitter remarks deserves some commemoration; it’ll be even more interesting in a few years. @adidasoriginals on Twitter, December 20, 2021 In the metaverse, challenging the impossible is the reality. On Friday we landed in the world of Web3 with one of the most widely-distributed NFT drops in history. Our intention has always […]
*She makes a YouTube episode about her appearance on the mainstream show. *Such is the difference between YouTube and conventional television entertainment — note the makeup staffers, professional lighting, costume department, celebrity hosts and so on.
*He needs better lighting because his shop is a video studio, and he also needs more wall space because his walls are theater sets. *The part about a workshop being a process rather than a destination is well observed. People who are coders sometimes want a physical environment where all the components are static and […]
*Go ahead, I dare you!
*Lots of Americans. Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) Art historians, critics, curators, humanities scholars and many others rely on the records of artists, galleries, museums, and arts organizations to conduct historical research and to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. Currently, much of the art-related materials that were once published in print form are now available […]
*I really want to see somebody wearing those proto-Maker overalls from 1919.
*According to Fab Lab Barcelona.
on behalf of ICCC 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’22) June 27 – July 1, 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (physical event supporting some virtual presence) Call for papers: full regular papers (long papers) https://computationalcreativity.net Please distribute —————————————- Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence […]
Dear Nettimers It’s a book! TURING COMPLETE USER – RESISTING ALIENATION IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION. https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/972 qISBN 978-3-98501-072-1 ISBN 978-3-98501-071-4 (PDF) The following essays were written between 2012 and 2020, a time that will hardly be remembered for any groundbreaking hardware or software inventions. The iPhone, the Tesla Roadster, Web 2.0, even the Infinite Scroll […]
*This was a conceptual design for an analog information-processing device that the great man wrote about but never built.
*That seems like rather a lot of them. Perhaps too many.
*Hurray for our home team. On the occasion of the event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Fablabs in Italy, Share Festival opens the day with a talk by its artistic director Bruce Sterling and presents the Share Gallery exhibition with works by Christoph Laimer, Lia, Diego Scroppo, Laura Viale, Tobias Zimmer and […]
*Things are changing fast for them. This time they’re exhibiting the works well beforehand and preparing the auction, which, to date, seems to be blitzing by in nanoseconds. For Your Eyes Only Announcing a new exhibition of artworks exploring the machine gaze and its implications, curated by Domenico Quaranta. Exhibition Opening: December 15, 2021 6pm […]
*Well, they were there. https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/processing-the-software-that-shaped-creative-coding/ (…) Casey: We saw a potential for learning how to code in a more essential and foundational way—that was really the vision of Processing. I don’t really think that was happening at the time. Instead of, to say it in a really crude way, dumbing down coding so designers can […]
https://artreview.com/power-100/
*I collect these. I especially like the comparisons over different cultures and periods of centuries.
*It looks like they’re determined to have one! SXSW Website: https://www.sxsw.com/news/2021/reggie-fils-aime-julia-cheek-tyler-blevins-maelle-gavet-more-join-sxsw-2022/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SXSWFestival/posts/10158590029148994 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sxsw/status/1468264695731732491 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6874030386641436672 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMHX0POogy/
https://e2eml.school/transformers.html Transformers were introduced in this 2017 paper as a tool for sequence transduction—converting one sequence of symbols to another. The most popular examples of this are translation, as in English to German. It has also been modified to perform sequence completion—given a starting prompt, carry on in the same vein and style. They have […]
*It’s a neural net architecture, but it’s so small and compact. I can put all its python code into one blog post. So, why not? At the Share Artmaker Blog, we’re here to serve! Andrei Karpathy is the director of AI at Tesla, leading the Autopilot Vision team. Previously OpenAI, CS231n, PhD @ Stanford. https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model.py […]
https://app.wombo.art/
*Obviously business is improving. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/07/italys-museums-move-to-stop-ticket-touts-post-covid-comeback As tourists return to Florence and Rome, ticket touts are also making a comeback. Now, the Uffizi Galleries’ director Eike Schmidt, who has waged war on touts since taking office in 2015, hopes to deliver a final blow. “We are already working on introducing named tickets,” Schmidt reveals to The […]
*Professor Ratti working his Rem Koolhaas muscles as writer-urbanist. https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/carlo-ratti
*Hahahaha! It’s the greatest. Wish I had one of my own! AKING COFFEE WITH THE SUN CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota unveil a new café designed for Lavazza at Expo Dubai 2020. Located within the Italian Pavilion, the project features a 2.5-meter-tall Moka pot powered by solar energy that heats up water to make […]
*A Leatherman made by an artist in a limited-edition run of 100, but of course he has to own one. Who can blame him? *The mass-market costume play is an interesting social development — why do people want to play in costumes during an epidemic? Why is there enough market demand to pay for injection-molding?
https://transmediale.de/de/projects/abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here
*I should write more science fiction about robot artists. *Normally I don’t trouble the Artmaker blog with my efforts at fantascienza, but this piece has so many art-world in-jokes in it that it’s actually funny if you’re into tech-art. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/artificial-labor/140675/the-beachcomber-of-novi-kotor/
https://deepai.org/definitions *You have to like the English language to appreciate what AI is doing to it, but AI jargon is quite poetic. This glossary not only lists some of the most weird and beautiful jargon terms, it also explains them. For instance: the wonderfully-named “Exploding Gradient Problem.” What is the Exploding Gradient Problem? In machine […]
*If you ever wondered what the offices of “Adafruit” looked like. https://twitter.com/ptorrone/status/1466949942082158593?s=20
*You’ll notice that the entire last half of this tool recommendation video is about making videos of your makerspace. *It’s part of the trend from old-school fab-lab to FX and video production unit.
*Those needle-nose pliers impress me. I like it that they have no branding. *Also the business about archival glue that doesn’t age and ruin everything with its acidity, that’s often overlooked in the heat of the moment.
*This seems like a very sensible idea, but it’s also alarming to see the European electronic-art world attempting to save the planet. It’s as if you’d recruited all the synthesizer-players and invited them to protect the national forests. *With that said, the volume of plastic on our planet’s land and seas is truly staggering, Maybe […]
*It’s a platform, it’s a magazine, it may be an NFT retail outlet, but whatever it is, it’s new and it’s remarkably interesting. https://outland.art/
*It’s interesting that they are taking the trouble to curate them. https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/11/29/our-12-favorite-arduino-uno-projects/ Our 12 favorite Arduino UNO projects ARDUINO TEAM — November 29th, 2021 The UNO wasn’t Arduino’s first board, and it won’t be its last. There have been many varieties of microcontroller and maker boards before and after the UNO, but none have been […]
*These sermons get a lot more convincing when people have been actually doing it for twenty years. https://medium.com/processing-foundation/making-p5-js-fd293ba91a32 They want us to think technology is a black box. Accept the terms of service. You can’t know what’s inside. You can’t modify it. You certainly can’t make your own.We didn’t believe it so we made p5.js. […]
*Jimmy DiResta really tearing it up with the professional Maker gear there. *It’s all about the plans, adhesives and belt-sanders.
*Because screens, even when mounted on the wall like a painting, are not the same thing as an analog canvas. https://www.netgear.com/home/digital-art-canvas/swivel-mount/
The Nomadic Image 2022 The Seventh Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture 23 – 25 September 2022 Virtual and in-person, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: Deadline 15 March 2022 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Seventh Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference will be held in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, a country where […]
*It’s all about the bridges, this season. FERAL FILEhttps://feralfile.com Our next exhibition, –GRAPH, will open on November 30, 2021 14:00 UTC+0 (10pm Shanghai, 3pm Berlin, 11am São Paulo, 6am Los Angeles), with collecting to begin one hour later. Join us on Discord to engage with other collectors, the artists, and curator Casey Reas. Save this […]
*With no less a man than Mario Klingemann. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/mint-your-own-nft-at-art-basel-miami-beach At this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, visitors can dip their toes into the mysterious world of cryptoart and create NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) of their own. The German artist Mario Klingemann, aka Quasimondo, will generate AI portraits of fairgoers who can then use the […]
FERAL FILE https://feralfile.com –GRAPH Announcing a new exhibition of software art and plotter drawings, curated by Casey Reas. Exhibition Opening: November 30, 2021 14:00 UTC+0 (10pm Shanghai, 3pm Berlin, 11am São Paulo, 6am Los Angeles) Collecting begins one hour later Feral File and Bitmark are pleased to announce the gallery’s tenth exhibition, featuring plotter drawings […]
*This kills me. I am hard put not to buy ten of them.
*That’s an interesting development. ARDUINO UNO MINI A LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR’S PIECE. _ 10 million Arduino UNO boards have been sold to a worldwide community. It’s time to celebrate with a limited edition collectible. The world’s favorite development board has gone mini. Arduino’s most iconic device is reaching the incredible milestone of 10 million boards […]
*Everybody agreed, so it probably doesn’t say much. *Also, the USA is not a member of UNESCO. Via. AI: Decoded, brought to you every Wednesday by Melissa Heikkilä, POLITICO’s AI Correspondent in London. UNESCO ADOPTS ETHICS RULES FOR AI A world first: Yesterday, 193 countries adopted UNESCO’s recommendation on AI ethics. AI: Decoded spoke with […]
*It’s rare for these veteran purveyors of American police and emergency-rescue gear to imagine a workshop full of tools. *This is set-design in a website ad, but it’s interesting anyway.
*Your guess is as good as mine!
*That seems fun. https://artemagazine.it/2021/11/16/la-crypto-art-al-museo-della-permanente-di-milano/ MILANO – Dal 23 novembre 2021, DART | Dynamic Art Museum, progetto museale ideato da Piergiulio Lanza e realizzato insieme all’Arch. Riccardo Manfrin, presenta due nuove mostre collettive, presso il Museo della Permanente di Milano. “2121” Al piano terra, si terrà “2121”, il primo grande progetto espositivo dedicato alla Crypto Art […]
*They’re on sale! https://www.wired.it/gallery/black-friday-2021-fai-da-te/
*Might be great fun if you’re just hanging out in your parents’ garage making stuff out of used tires, melted plastic and leftover packing crates. https://www.arshake.com/en/game-over/game-over-call-for-ideas-5-0/ VILLAM with Arshake. Reinventing Technology is launching an open call for young makers (under 35) who want to take part in a major artistic operation with the opportunity to […]
*There’s many a time when I wandered into the vast atrium of Torino’s National Cinema Museum, and seen this highlight reel playing on the big screen.
*That series is eight years old and still intensely interesting. http://conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/ CONTENTS (Version 2012-11-14-1225) Critical Making – Introduction: 14 pages. Garnet Hertz – Making Critical Making (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp01to10-Hertz-MakingCriticalMaking.pdf) Garnet Hertz – Acknowledgements (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp11to12-Hertz-Acknowledgements.pdf) Garnet Hertz – How To Cite This Work (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp13to14-Hertz-HowToCiteThisWork.pdf) Critical Making – Manifestos: 48 pages. Daniel Charny – Power of Making (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Manifestos-pp01to06-Charny-PowerOfMaking.pdf) Anne […]
*She’s been known to do street art in Torino. *I wouldn’t have thought that a luxury car gig would be up her alley, but sometimes fame beckons. https://flic.kr/p/eamLsf https://www.artribune.com/television/2021/11/video-la-jaguar-diventa-opera-darte-sostenibile-con-la-street-artist-alice-pasquini/ Alice Pasquini is the Roman street artist known all over the world for her colorful, feminist and ecological art. It could only be she who transformed […]
*A familiar story. Postponed Until Further Notice DEADLINE EXTENDED [not Until Further Notice but until December 1st] The Wrong Biennale n°5 embassy/pavilion Postponed Until Further Notice is inviting (internet/digital) artists, conceptual designers, meme artists, poets, writers, critics, and other makers and thinkers to become part of a collaborative experiment. Deadline extended: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 […]
*Enjoy it, if you’re in the mood for that. Via ARTNews: An artist and programmer, Geoffrey Huntley, has created a torrent site that allows anyone to download more than 15 terabytes worth of NFT works—purportedly every one registered on Ethereum and Solana—for free. Its name: The NFT Bay. Text on the site explains, “As web […]
That’s a seriously punk “guerrilla-built” bench.
*That must be some kinda Manhattan atelier. Neri Oxman launches new studio to “contribute to a better world” Day 15: Architect and designer Oxman used her Dezeen 15 manifesto and an accompanying movie to set out the vision for her new studio. “We envision it as a kind of a Bell Labs of the 21st […]
*Imagine somebody *paying* you to create a fashion lab. https://shemakes.eu/labs-call Shemakes is holding an open call for 12 new Labs to join our network. Winning labs will each receive €15,000 to carry out community activities that advance the role of women in the fashion, textile and clothing industry. Deadline for applications: November 30, 2021 Funds […]
*That’s one of the more eccentric bench setups available on Youtube. *It’s also odd that a maker self-named “Post-Apocalypse” has such a cozy set-up, so many fans and even a post-apocalyptic girlfriend with painting skills.
*MIT Media Lab getting into some classy Youtube video makertainment here.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/surveillance-technology-at-the-fair/ Executive Summary State cyber capabilities are increasingly abiding by the “pay-to-play” model—both US/NATO allies and adversaries can purchase interception and intrusion technologies from private firms for intelligence and surveillance purposes. NSO Group has repeatedly made headlines in 2021 for targeting government entities in cyberspace, but there are many more companies selling similar products that […]
*May God help us
Liquid Cosmos at the Lithuanian Space Agency Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Liquid Cosmos at the Lithuanian Space Agency Closing event November 19–21, 2021 Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Derelitti Barbaria delle Tole, 6691, (Castello) 30122 Venice Italy Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–7pm info@lithuanianspace.agency www.lithuanianspace.agency www.kosmicainstitute.com www.hfg-karlsruhe.de Facebook / Instagram […]
Unsupervised: MoMA seen through the mind of a machine Announcing a new solo exhibition with media artist Refik Anadol Exhibition Opening: November 18, 2021 9pm New York (11pm São Paulo, 3am Berlin (Nov 19), 10am Shanghai (Nov 19)) Collecting begins one hour later Three images from the “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA — Dreams” […]
*Facebook became Meta, so now it’s mayhem in the FX biz. “By combining the industry leading VFX tools and technical talent from the incredible team at Weta, plus the deep development and real-time knowledge within Unity, we aim to deliver tools to unlock the full potential of the metaverse.” Weta vs Meta! https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-weta-digital?_ga=2.164870655.1995680536.1636681170-1645606552.1636681170 (…) Tools […]
*I don’t believe that collection is the first such record ever made, but this is nevertheless an epic tale. *Dick Raajmakers was a protean research-and-development expert who was up to all kinds of odd stuff — with the industrial backing of the mighty Philips corporation. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/tom-dissevelt-kid-baltan-fascinating-world-of-electronic-music-feature When most people think of “electronic music” in the […]
*It’s a press release. *However, we get their press releases for good reasons. ARDUINO BLACK NOVEMBER _ Black Friday is not enough! The most popular Arduino products are discounted throughout November, from 8 to 29. Arduino chooses 8different iconic boards and combinations for 8 big deals. People can choose between the Arduino Starter Kit for […]
*Those are some quite modern tools there. The snaky, magnetized LED task lamp is quite interesting, and I’d never heard of that nanotechnological ceramic sandpaper.
*That’s some interview. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/658 This week, on the new-media platform Feral File, artist Refik Anadol presents Unsupervised, an exhibition of works created by training an artificial intelligence model with the public metadata of The Museum of Modern Art’s collection. Spanning more than 200 years of art, from paintings to photography to cars to video games, […]
*Hey, that documentary’s pretty good! Has lots of Italian cinema-muto spectacles, in the context of their European peers.
*It’s great that they’re alive, after what the European cultural scene has been through (and continues to experience). *There’s hard-working Artissima director Ilaria Bonacossa in the art press — “Exibart 114,” to be specific. Home page Artissima has closed its 28th edition Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, closed on November 7 […]
*Rolling Stone decided to get all interested, but at least they wrote a pretty good article about it. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bayc-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-interview-1250461/
*It’s mostly about music and the music event scene, but at least they’re making an earnest effort as journalists to keep up with the NFT mayhem. https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-holly-herndons-holly-fwb-gatekeeper-nft-takeover-of-times-square-and-more/ https://xlr8r.com/features/web3-weekly-wrap-telefon-tel-aviv-and-effixx-and-sven-vath-announce-nft-drops-zora-embed-universals-bayc-supergroup-and-more/ “We detail our favorite NFTs, DAOs, platforms, and DeFi and DApp projects in the Web3 space from last week.”
*Not some of them, but ALL of them, tutto!
This video features a wide variety of these industrial devices, and after looking at them and the way they work, it’s easier to understand why bamboo chopsticks in restaurants cost nothing.
“Both a practical and a political frame,” and it’s become even more political since he made this video.
The work has a large reverberating gong in it. *A time lapse of the artwork’s generated projection:
*It’s fair to say that we were gloating over it.
*A pleasure to see this work, created by one of Share Festival’s favorite artists, entering The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art for its permanent collection.
*I only wish we had enough manpower on this blog to keep track of all this stuff. However, that’s why journalism exists, so God bless them, we’re grateful!
*That’s interesting. One doesn’t often see these well-known and highly influential culturati women mentioned as a group.
*Good friends of Share Festival, located in Berlin.
*In this intriguing and thoughtful video, Laura Kampf utterly reforms her workshop/video studio by using leftover equipment cases that she bought on eBay — cases which are probably from the old West German espionage apparatus. *I quite admire the achievement of Ms Kampf here — she’s a Maker Faire Rome veteran who justly commands the […]
*Quite handsome!
*It’s been there 20 years, but it’s broken, dry, drained of water and doesn’t move at all. Chained off, it’s become a public hazard instead of the delight it once was. *The artist is still alive, but he’s 84 and living in Japan. https://www.nature.com/articles/419882a Published: 31 October 2002 Science in culture Martin Kemp Nature volume […]
*Hardware for the Makertainment business. *You may have noticed that Maker YouTube celebrities have been integrating video documentation right into their studios and even their workbenches, and this device would be part of that. It’s a portable machine that can do good service for open-source documentation, via video.
*It’s American cinema FX product, but the tradecraft is interesting.
*A message direct from the originators of the terms.
https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/qmkxv3/made_a_laser_tower_on_arduino_nano_for_my_cats/
*Some impressive Germanic classification and filing there.
*I don’t believe any of this, but it’s useful to see it stated in such a clear way. https://medium.com/meta-verses/the-seven-rules-of-the-metaverse-7d4e06fa864c Humbly submitted, in service to the great work. The Rules Rule #1. There is only one Metaverse. Rule #2: The Metaverse is for everyone. Rule #3: Nobody controls the Metaverse. Rule #4: The Metaverse is open. […]
*We’re in the days of NFT when people are visibly making everything up as they go along. There are no “best practices.” FERAL FILE https://feralfile.com I am excited to announce the launch of Feral File’s Ethereum bridge. It allows you to migrate a Feral File NFT from the Bitmark blockchain to Ethereum. You can then […]
*Because, as the best-paid artist in crypto-land, why wouldn’t he? *Also, he was performing this gesture to amuse a fan, and probably it was funny. Would adorning a hundred euros be this amusing? You have to wonder.
*If we hadn’t suffered through a pandemic and quarantine, I’d be rather shocked to see Artissima becoming this digital and metaversified. However, that was then, while this is new-normal. https://xyz.artissima.art/ *We’re heading over to the Lingotto venue for a look around.
Felix Stalder pondering Meta’s metaverse on the nettime list: I’m sure most of you have heard by now that Facebook is renaming itself “Meta” and promoting a platform called “Metaverse”, basically, a shared, but heavily customizable VR/AR world. If you haven’t seen the video from the keynote, have look. You won’t be able to get […]
*Oh dear.
FERAL FILE https://feralfile.com I am excited to announce the launch of Feral File’s Ethereum bridge. It allows you to migrate a Feral File NFT from the Bitmark blockchain to Ethereum. You can then control the resulting NFT with an Etherem wallet of your choice or list it on marketplaces like OpenSea. You can access this […]
*We’re attending this sister festival of Share Festival this year, and they are streaming a lot of their curated cinematic works. https://www.mymovies.it/ondemand/scificlub/abbonati/
dear nettimers, A slightly edited version of the text below – “Captured Alive” – has just been published online by the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture, which is facilitated by Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. The online version can be found at: https://nadd.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/articles/captured-alive-living-memory-and-digital-archives Hopefully this is of interest to (some of) you. – Eric […]
*How could they not? https://news.artnet.com/market/italys-top-art-fair-nft-trend-2023797 Italy’s Artissima Becomes the First Major Art Fair to Mint NFTs as Part of an Overhaul of Its Emerging Artist Prize The Italian contemporary art fair Artissima is joining in on the NFT art market trend, launching a new project that explores the experimentation and production of digital collectibles during […]
*From the maestro of Cool Tools, and it’s well worth a read even if many of the components of his travel system are for American travels. https://medium.com/@frauenfelder/my-travel-essentials-79afbb9b90c2
*ISEA has extended their proposal deadline, and given the circumstances, who can blame them. https://isea2022.isea-international.org/submit-your-proposal/ FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DEADLINE EXTENDED You have more time to submit your work to the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA 2022. We invite artists, designers, scholars, researchers, educators, innovators, and creators to contribute to this growing discussion […]
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*Has a nice Fab-Lab home-made look to it, and it’s portable! “(proyecto VOLRISKMAC II, MAC2/3.5b/328),” according to its sponsor the INVOLCAN agency, who took this photograph and Tweeted it.
*It’s not for everybody, and it’s not for anybody all the time.
*I guess this stuff has to be junked and sold to somebody, but that is some dazzling cyberwar-surplus packaging. Just look at that! *That may be the weirdest stuff I’ve ever seen in a YouTube Maker video.
“Join our Discord,” the art auction-house suggests.
*We didn’t make it to Maker Faire in Rome this year, but that’s quite an interesting review of some of the tech-art there. https://www.arshake.com/en/you-and-ai-alla-maker-art-fair/ These are the initial questions behind the artistic exhibition curated by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou and Valentino Catricalà presented at this edition of Maker Faire. The encounter between art and new technologies […]
20.10.2021 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Research workshop Rendering Research Workshop at ERG, School of Graphic Research, Brussels: 17-19 Jan 2022 Presentations at transmediale: 27 Jan 2022 Online application here https://transmediale.thegood.cloud/apps/forms/w4nKZrMtMaMycTqC Deadline for submissions: 14 November Rendering Research draws attention to how research is made public, and in this sense also to the infrastructures of research and […]
*They certainly are staying busy. Feral File and Bitmark are pleased to announce the platform’s eighth exhibition, and first solo exhibition, featuring nine sound works by the electronic music composer Jan St. Werner. This audio-only exhibition puts sound at the forefront, positioning it at the same level as visual work within the framework of digital […]
*I haven’t seen it yet, but I bet that book is pretty good. https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/project/spooky-technology Spooky Technology explores creative research opportunities around our understanding of the invisible technologies in our everyday lives, from objects with ‘intelligence’ to systems in our homes that talk to us (and each other). The project focuses on creating an inventory of […]
https://github.com/deepmind/mujoco MuJoCo Physics MuJoCo stands for Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. It is a general purpose physics engine that aims to facilitate research and development in robotics, biomechanics, graphics and animation, machine learning, and other areas which demand fast and accurate simulation of articulated structures interacting with their environment. DeepMind has acquired MuJoCo, and we are […]
Autonomy is now ready for all iPhone users (Android coming this year). It’s the home for all your NFT art and other collectibles — a seamless, customizable way to enjoy your collection. Its beautiful user interface is coupled with a decentralized key management system we initially built to help people protect their Bitcoin. Download it […]
*Pretty! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275461897_THE_CHALLENGES_OF_DIGITAL_ART_PRESERVATION
*Who can’t love them? https://ars.electronica.art/ailab/en/
*No wonder the European Union was irritated.
*Laura Kampf’s makerspace work-bench is constructed from junk (because she makes almost everything she creates out of junk). *You’ll notice, however, that this upcycled workbench she designed is a *video production table* where proper lighting and YouTube camera work get prioritized. It’s not just for making, it’s for Makertainment.
*It’s a press release from the Carlo Ratti architectural office in Torino. The Social Proximity Cafe CRA unveils Caffetteria, an innovative project in Lavazza’s brand-new Flagship Store in London’s Regent Street. New technologies – from germicidal materials to lights with disinfecting properties – are employed to rethink the quintessential Italian coffee experience with one objective […]
*I should glue this onto the container where I keep my glue.
*Really? They’re in Austria so you need to speak German. https://ars.electronica.art/about/en/careers/
*Might be a good day to visit Torino’s cinema museum. https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldaudiovisualday Audiovisual archives tell us stories about people’s lives and cultures from all over the world. They represent a priceless heritage which is an affirmation of our collective memory and a valuable source of knowledge since they reflect the cultural, social and linguistic diversity of […]
*You don’t know media history if you don’t know pre-cinematic history.
*That’s rather a lot. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/#instances The following table contains all programming languages tracked including its groupings, confidences and exceptions. (Visual) FoxPro: FoxPro, Fox Pro, VFP, VFPA 1C:Enterprise script 4th Dimension/4D: 4D, 4th Dimension ABAP ABC: ABC (exceptions: -tv -channel) ActionScript: ActionScript, AS1, AS2, AS3 Ada Agilent VEE Algol Alice: Alice (confidence: 90%) Angelscript Apex APL […]
*Okay, it’s a jewelry ad, but if you like Internet influencers, how can you not like this?
*Hahaha! It’s like somebody dumped a big paint bucket full of glamour.
*An interesting line of development for an outfit once devoted to education, home assembly and electronic art applications. The Arduino Pro Portenta H7 Lite Connected hits another sweet spot for industrial-strength solutions _ The newest addition to the Portenta family is the best of two worlds: powerful, cost-effective, and ready to connect. After successfully launching […]
*Using Maker hardware to make some Makertainment video documentation hardware.
*Once again, a creative makerspace (for movie props and collectibles, mostly) is transformed in a video social-media studio. *”Same old basement,” but new style of camera-ready production atelier.
*This fab-lab is particularly video-centric, including even a green-screen. *Also, look at then impressive size of it. That’s a Texan three-car garage, the polar opposite of Colin Furze’s deliberately modest British backyard shed.
*Let’s hear about it, machine-translators! https://www-ilsalottodicecisimo-com.translate.goog/maker-music-maker-faire-rome-european-edition-2021-dall8-al-10-ottobre-2021-al-gazometro-ostiense-e-online/ Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition 2021, the largest fair of innovations and creativity in Europe – promoted and organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome through its Special Company InnovaCamera – returns from 8 to 10 October live at the Gazometro Ostiense is online , bringing […]
*This home-constructed Youtube workshop is ten years old and not as cinematic as some, but Colin Furze makes up for this with his antic personality as a video performer. *There’s also some interestingly eccentric British machinist hardware in this extensive video tour.
*That’s the biggest and most elaborate such enterprise that I’ve seen to date. Laura Kampf’s workshop in Cologne may be physically bigger, but the equipment here is otherworldly. *This isn’t so much “technology art” as engineering and pop science, but the videos are the creative artifacts. In “makertaionment,” it’s not enough to “make” things, their […]
*The Japanese maestro takes a chainsaw to the hapless tree.
*Dirt. *Some well-worn brushes and some humble yet handy scraps of wood. *The creative end result.
*Wood-sculpting chisels. *Soil scoops and a root hook. *Specialty imported “Masakuni” brand cutting tools. *Masakuni will sell you an entire set of their standard bonsai gear, but the seasoned gardener will accumulate the tools that work for him or her.
*I happened to meet this Ibizan gentleman — Juan Montesino — and he’s been cultivating bonsai trees for thirty years. He’s accumulated some interesting hardware, starting with a small pair of specialized pruning shears and building from there. *The whole set is in an Italian roll aboard tool case, which demonstrates his good taste. *In […]
Set of bonsai tools (left to right): leaf trimmer; rake with spatula; root hook; coir brush; concave cutter; knob cutter; wire cutter; small, medium and large shears
*Of course this isn’t about the mere price of the scissors. It’s about the symbiosis of the elite bonsai artist and the elite scissor-maker. *The bonsai artist points out that these scissors improve his creative morale, and I don’t doubt that they do. I wouldn’t recommend sinking that much financial resources into a creative tool, […]
*Tom Sachs.
*Having a serious limited-art fit of multitool production here. Tom Sachs is quite a character. https://www.tomsachs.com/biography
*This is a speech of mine for Alan Turing’s centenary almost ten years ago, and it’s still topical because not a lot of progress has been made. Turing’s Strange Seas of Thought North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) Austin, Texas, June 23, 2012 Bruce Sterling Thanks for that introduction, Talking Alan […]
*What a peculiar enterprise, and yet, very lucrative.
*They’re sure not running out of material. If anything, their pace (and their prices) are accelerating. http://feralfile.com Feral File and Bitmark are pleased to announce the platform’s seventh exhibition, which will feature artwork from a group of 12 international artists exploring the natural form and its possibilities of representation with AI. Encompassing a variety of […]
https://medium.com/dark-matter-and-trojan-horses/working-with-brian-eno-on-design-principles-for-streets-cf873b039c9f (…) So I asked the artist and musician Brian Eno if he could kindly contribute some design principles for us. (For those that don’t know Eno’s work, he is one of the most important and influential artists, musicians and thinkers of the last half-century. And regarding my opening paragraphs and this desire to pull […]
https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/Fokusthemen/Gutachten_DEK_EN.pdf
*One among many. https://nfts.wtf/in-conversation-with-parin-heidari/ Parin Heidari is a multidisciplinary artist based in Italy. She draws single-line portraits ambidextrously. Before creating NFT art full-time, Parin worked as a creative director and graphic designer for 10 years in The Netherlands, Italy, and Iran. Parin studied painting in Iran and holds a BA in Industrial Design and Visual […]
*Those are handsome.
*An advance in consumer technology of worldwide significance.
Wow! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T8IpvJEKztUhXWZm5zHMtKz3D1RcvoO3-9UcGJiKZEw/edit#gid=0
*Well, that ought to keep them busy for a while. https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/raspberry-pi-gets-45m-to-meet-demand-for-low-cost-pcs-and-iot/ (…) Spending on marketing is also planned, across both the consumer (“build it yourself” PC) and industrial (IoT) sectors. Its trading arm ships 7 million+ devices a year at this point. While, in total, the Pi Foundation also said it’s shipping over 42 million […]
… everything is bought within seconds. *I’m not sure what customer behavior one should expect here, but there’s something peculiar about that. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/p1x3l-n36
*He died.
*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 […]
*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 […]
https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/books/handbook-2022/pdf/download
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 […]
*That’s quite a proposal. https://whitepaper.gamblingapes.com/
*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/
*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/
*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.
*It’s a nice Torino angle that Laura is using scrapped FIAT parts for her new Makertainment toys here.
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 […]
*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. […]
*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.
*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/
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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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
*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, […]
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. […]
https://neuralblender.com/
*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 […]
*Those are nice. https://sutd-cgl.github.io/supp/Publication/projects/2021-SIGAsia-3DCamMech/index.htm
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 […]
*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: […]
*For the masses!
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 […]
“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”
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 […]
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 […]
https://collisions.substack.com/p/gimme-the-loot https://www.lootproject.com
*Well, that was that. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/instructions-follow-f1c
*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
*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/
*Those are funny. I should get some. https://www.tested-store.com/listing/glued-fingers-de-merit-badge?product=1475
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
“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” […]
*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
*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 […]
*New forms of art means new art crimes.
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 […]
*Well over a million views on YouTube, but if you need to crush some grapes, get a new machine.
*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 […]
*One wonders what”World of Women” is doing in there.
*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.
*Famous pro Maker Jimmy DiResta is not a great artisan, he just never gets tired.
“After the revolution, things will be different. Not better, just different.”
*It’s simulated with a Raspberry Pi. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/
*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 […]
*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.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/happy-birthday-30-years-of-linux
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 […]
*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 […]
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:
*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 […]
*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 […]
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, […]
*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 […]
*A pioneer of digital art for over fifty years.
*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 […]
*He’s making professional sense here. *Also the transition from “sculptor” to “special effects artisan” is quite interesting.
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, […]
*Destroyed in the War of the Mantuan Succession after three hundred years of impressing Italian viewers.
*If you decide to make a lathe out of wood off the grid.
*The categories alone are pretty impressive. https://www.mcmaster.com/ *Old catalogs from 100 years ago are a historic education in technological development.
*I would guess that this strange automaton ballerina is Turinese and from the “Teatro Carignano,” but your guess is as good as mine.
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 […]
*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 […]
*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.
*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
*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 […]
*And it’s Kyle Chayka writing the review. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/appreciating-the-poetic-misunderstandings-of-ai-art
*That was the best robot show I ever saw.
*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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*Every artwork sold out at high speed. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/the-long-cut-bqv
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 […]
*Hmmm
https://www.tested-store.com/listing/tested-patch-bundle
*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 […]
*Turn any device into remote-controlled robotic art, etc.
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*Maremmano, Perugino, Napoletano, Vernantino, Tre pianelle, Fiorentino, some Sardinian pattada knives. This photo is a few days old.
*What is the famous appliance designer attempting to tell us here?
*The means of production after 5:00 are especially interesting.
*Contemporary “traditional” knives made partly by hand and partly with machine tools.
*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/
*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.
*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. […]
*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.
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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. […]
*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 […]
*It looks pretty good.
*The world’s best-known haute-digital fashion designer is really working those hand-crafted scissors and pencils there.
*According to Fortune magazine, anyway. If you click on this they will pester you to subscribe. https://fortune.com/nfty-50/
*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 […]
*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 […]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157683714643676 https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157683709284026
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: […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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, […]
*It’s a young industry, though. Young, and really peculiar. https://nonfungible.com/blog/q2-2021-nft-report
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 […]
The beloved Turinese monster-god from the silent movie “Cabiria.”
“Rich, Complex 3D Worlds”
https://xra.org/
*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 […]
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? […]
*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 […]
*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
*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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
*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
*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.
*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
*I collect these, but Gruppo T was so productive, for so long, that I’ll probably never see even half of it. \
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
*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/
*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 […]
*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
*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.
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
https://kk.org/cooltools/sherry-huss-co-founder-of-maker-faire/
*It’s not a bridge in Torino, but it’s a nice project anyway.
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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/
*Might be of interest for digital art displays. Figuring out how to parade your NFTs, that’s not an easy matter. https://lookingglassfactory.com/
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*If the Big Tech version of the Internet didn’t exist and was disrupted by blockchains.
*What could go wrong?
*That’s a long time for an open-source art project. https://discourse.processing.org/t/celebrating-processing-20th-anniversary/30797
*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.
“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.
*Omniverse is a contemporary game engine, and this is NVIDIA boasting about its capacities.
*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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
*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 […]
*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, […]
*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 […]
*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 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 […]
*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 […]
*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
*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 […]
*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 […]
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*Hey, these people are pretty good, and that’s an impressive list of modern tech-art creatives. https://aiartists.org/ai-artist-founding-members
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.
*They know everything!
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*That’s a handsome tool, isn’t it? Beloved for making prototype objects in design schools.
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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.
*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
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 […]
*There will certainly be a lot more.
*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 […]
*This is Detroit, or, “the Torino of Michigan,” as people ought to call it.
*Langton’s Ant has a lot of relatives in the generative art world.
*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
*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. […]
*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.
*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:
*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 […]
*Reminiscing is terrible, isn’t it? It’s so much more fun to speculate!
*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.”
*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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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.
*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: […]
*I don’t create a lot of critical diagrams, but this is one of them. Sometimes it’s taught in design schools.
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 […]
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, […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*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.
*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.
*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 […]
*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.
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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*Well, no. Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?
*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 […]
*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.
*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
*”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 […]
*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” […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
June 10, 2021: *Every Crypto Punk ever generated:
*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/
*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, […]
*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 […]
*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, […]
*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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*The Museo Nazionale del Cinema, which abounds in historic media oddities, has decided to add some virtual reality to its attractions.
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 […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities https://agoradigital.art/blog-carla-gannis-cabinet-of-curiosities/ https://carlagannis.com
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
*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. […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*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 […]
*Torino! Always on the move, into the future of digital art!
“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. […]