MNC XR — tonight

*I just downloaded the app and I’ll be giving this a try tonight — a projection-mapping on the Mole Antonelliana. *I once clambered to the peak of the Mole Antonelliana and it was one of the physically scariest things I’ve ever done. Heights don’t scare me, but somehow that one did. https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72157628547913643

We seem to have a Rhizome metaverse here

New Online Exhibition Offers Hot, Critical, Non-Fungible Content NFS NSFW NFT is a new online exhibition, hosted at 3D virtual gallery New Art City, exploring the critical poetics of this particular not-for-sale, not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token moment. The exhibition marks the culmination of the past year’s work by members of the Art & Code track, a […]

Herbert W. Franke solo show at Kate Vass Galerie

https://www.katevassgalerie.com/math-goes-art-by-herbert-w-franke The father of computer art, one of the leading German science fiction authors – Professor Herbert W. Franke, got fascinated about imaging systems early at the end of the 1940s when he was given the task of calculating electric-magnetic fields, as used in electron microscopes. He comments: “it opened my eyes to things I […]

The latest issue of “Computational Culture”

http://computationalculture.net/about-computational-culture/ Computational Culture (ISSN 2047-2390) is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of the culture of computational objects, practices, processes and structures. The journal’s primary aim is to examine the ways in which software undergirds and formulates contemporary life. Computational processes and systems not only enable contemporary forms of work […]

The Newzoo Metaverse Ecosystem Diagram

*If you’d like to hire them to give you business advice about metaverses, gaming, virtual real estate and NFTs, Newzoo can tell you a whole lot more. https://newzoo.com/insights/infographics/metaverse-ecosystem-infographic/

Maintaining a Tinguely kinetic artwork

*I don’t believe that this work in on the barge, but they do have one of Tinguely’s large public fountains, which was similarly dismantled and transported.

Museum Tinguely AHOY!

*Some of the works of kinetic artist Jean Tinguely are cruising around the rivers of Europe on show in a barge. https://www.tinguely.ch/en/ahoy/impressions.html

Gruppo T memorabilia

*I collect these, but Gruppo T was so productive, for so long, that I’ll probably never see even half of it. \

Re-Programmed Art

A tremendously interesting project from 2014. Along with preserving old kinetic art, why not try to rebuild it with new methods? Of course, that gets old too… But at least you’ve shown what’s possible! http://www.reprogrammed-art.cc/index.php?#home

The Grazia Varisco Archive

*Those photographs are fantastic. They’re all copyrighted, too, or else I would steel them and blog them immediately. http://www.archiviovarisco.it/grazia-varisco/autobiografia/