The Antikythera Mechanism: Episode 12, Part 1

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.

Meanwhile, at Artissima

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 […]

Lady Ada’s electronic toolkit

*Trade war in a box.

Augmented Chinese Reality

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 […]

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 4 | Inside the Animation: Spider Rose | Netflix

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

Micro Laser Kickstarter Welding Machine

*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

Here comes Artissima

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 – […]

She put her machine shop in the dining room

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

Google AI augmented reality

*They’ve been building head-mounted AR glasses for over a decade. *If at first you don’t succeed, kill it and try again.

Error 417 Expectation Failed at !Mediengruppe Bitnik

Dear friends of Internet art, unexpected infrastructures and better futures, After a long, interesting and sometimes bumpy journey through a surprisingly elusive and sometimes adversarial contemporary bureaucracy, we are finally launching Error 417 Expectation Failed. Error 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation to support radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. So to […]