https://ars.electronica.art/mediaservice/en/2025/06/04/starts-prize-winners-2025/ (Linz/Brussels, June 4, 2025) The European Commission’s 2025 STARTS Prize has been decided on. Now in its tenth year, the initiative received 1,657 submissions from 90 countries. (((That’s a lot!))) This year’s “Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration,” endowed with €20,000, goes to the LAS Art Foundation (DE) for its artistic research initiative Sensing Quantum. […]

*Makertainment studios have to be video studios. *Also, production spaces that are under intense video surveillance are quite interesting — “ubiquitous computing,” as they used to call it. Is that worth doing? Under what circumstances? Where are the hazards, what is the payoff, etc.

Episode 12! Part one! *The guy has been publicly making that ancient Greek gizmo since forever. It might be argued that he’s just now getting to the good part.

https://d1e6c.emailsp.com/f/rnl.aspx/?idg=vpvoy1&x=pv&:di=tzad&=tpuv/0.49a=7ei39i&x=pp&szh9b&x=pv&33dcz:4h=xxtvNCLM Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino presents the first new developments for its 32nd edition, which will take place at the Oval in Torino from 31 October to 2 November, directed for a fourth year by Luigi Fassi and with the support of the Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo and Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, the […]

*Trade war in a box.

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ar-arms-race (…) China’s VR/AR industry reportedly raised 2.948 billion RMB (~US$340 million) across 30 investment and financing events from January to November 2024. While tech giants like Huawei and Xiaomi have been dabbling in AR, innovation has primarily been driven by the so-called “Five Little Dragons” of the AR industry: XREAL (优奈柯恩), RayNeo (雷鸟创新), Rokid […]

*Hahaha… it doesn’t belong in the Artmaker blog, but how could I not post this?

*If you laser-slice your fingers off or weld both your eyes shut, don’t go and cry to the blog here. https://youtu.be/csWDatE2g6w?si=9o-5VZQx-fKSd-8D

LE PRIME NOVITÀ   Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino svela le prime novità della sua 32esima edizione, che si terrà all’Oval di Torino dal 31 ottobre al 2 novembre, diretta per il quarto anno consecutivo da Luigi Fassi e realizzata con il sostegno del Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo e con le Gallerie d’Italia – […]

*Oh for heaven’s sake. https://youtu.be/JZXtTWSZPCc?si=hKGcGO21KNhjFgei