Better than historically authentic, which is rather common in efforts of this kind.

*Really de-mystifies and dis-enchants the whole cocktail process. Cocktails Skill Tree

*Oh for heaven’s sake.

*Well, that’s Serpentine for you. https://futureartecosystems.org/briefings/ Dear Friends, The latest Future Art Ecosystems strategic briefing has now been released online! This year’s research has focused on Creative R&D, a unique format that integrates artistic experimentation, technological innovation and cross-sector collaborations. We spoke to over 60 artists, technologists, researchers and organisational leaders across culture, tech and […]

Eight weeks to build one; three years to rebuild one that looks like the original.

Subject: CONF: Cartographic Imaginaries (Paris, 11 Jun 25) Paris, Île-de-France, FRA, EHESS, Salle 50, Campus Condorcet, 2 Cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers, Jun 11, 2025 Cartographic Imaginaries: Spaces and Images of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In the 20th century, the collapse of empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian/Soviet) and multiethnic […]

*That “torture camp” used to be a Makerspace.

*Will it work, well, maybe. A Raspberry Pi supercomputer.

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.