*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”

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*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