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https://torino.corriere.it/economia/22_marzo_28/massimo-banzi-scontiamo-limite-culturale-qualcosa-innovativo-se-viene-validato-dall-america-1c310bee-ae6c-11ec-89b4-33ef6a8626b0.shtml (…) Arduino è più noto e utilizzato all’estero che in Italia, il 50 per cento dei ricavi è made in Usa. «Purtroppo ancora oggi scontiamo un limite culturale. Qualcosa è innovativo se viene validato dall’America. A noi è successo così quando la scheda Arduino è stata utilizzata da una Università di New York. Eppure […]

Dear friends, Aksioma is proud to present a new publication: (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal [A READER] aksioma.org/reprogramming.book Marta Peirano in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Benjamin Bratton, Holly Jean Buck, Anab Jain, Kate Crawford, Joana Moll, Astra Taylor and Eyal Weizman Editors: Marko Bauer, Janez Fakin Janša —– What will it take for humanity to […]

With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, and for the next 3 years, the European Media Art Platform (https://emare.eu/) expands its residency program for artists duos, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art to residencies in 15 countries. European artists or collectives can […]

*The participants seem pleased with the developments. https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-robotics Ten years ago this week (more or less), the Open Source Robotics Foundation announced that it was spinning out of Willow Garage as a more permanent home for the Robot Operating System. We covered this news at the time (which makes yours truly feel not quite so […]

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/tom-moody-dead-1234622521/ Tom Moody, a net artist, musician, blogger, and art critic, died this past Saturday morning from Covid-related complications and pneumonia, according to his gallery, And/Or in Pasadena, California. Moody was in his 60s. Moody was committed to lo-fi internet aesthetics through the use of old software, sometimes termed abandonware, like MSPaintbrush. He was involved […]

*I won’t read all of this, but I’ll definitely read some of it. https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/#individual-chapters “The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes […]