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*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
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*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. […]