https://www.pi-top.com/   https://forum.pi-top.com/t/new-pi-topos-release-june-2021-c790-2021-06-11/895   June 2021: The latest version of pi-top OS is here! It’s been a busy few months for us since we did our last OS release back in December 2020. In this post, I will be discussing the various changes that have been made to pi-top OS since our last OS release […]

https://womenreclaimingai.com/   …WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest.              The WRAI art-work consists of the collectively designed voice assistant and an evolving alternative visual representation of women through the use […]

https://www.eventbrite.it/e/virtual-kick-off-cte-next-tickets-158880001361     L’evento sarà l’occasione per lanciare il progetto CTE NEXT e presentare CSI NEXT, vero e proprio centro di trasferimento tecnologico sul 5G e nodo centrale della “Casa delle Tecnologie emergenti di Torino”, situato in Corso Unione Sovietica 216 a Torino.   Più in generale, l’obiettivo è quello di presentare il progetto tramite […]

*Processing is quite a famous open-source project in the creative-code art world.  It’s been chugging along for two solid decades.  It’s open-source and free, so it doesn’t cost anything and you’re also able to look directly at the code and see what’s going on with it. Processing art-works are also refreshingly code-centric; they’re art which […]

*Here I am speaking to a home-town audience of Austin academics and telling them about technology art in. Turin.   *I also have terrible things to tell them about the career of Philip K. Dick, because professional science fiction writers know these things and academics need to know.  

*They’re Andreesen Horowitz.  If you think NFTs lack a future, they have billions of dollars to make you think otherwise. *They launched a fusillade of propaganda with their new website “magazine,” called “Future.” ttps://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-breakthrough/ ttps://future.a16z.com/fantasy-hollywood-crypto-and-community-owned-characters/ ttps://future.a16z.com/a-taxonomy-of-tokens-distinctions-with-a-difference/   https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-breakthrough/ https://future.a16z.com/fantasy-hollywood-crypto-and-community-owned-characters/ https://future.a16z.com/a-taxonomy-of-tokens-distinctions-with-a-difference/  

  *I don’t create a lot of critical diagrams, but this is one of them.  Sometimes it’s taught in design schools.      

From artiness.com, an Italian art theft committed in such slow motion that the statute of limitations has run out. It’s particularly interesting that the works vanished and fakes were created to slowly replace them.   The Headlines IN WHAT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST PECULIAR ART HEISTS to come to light in recent […]

https://medium.com/@chris.d.coleman/introducing-cosa-the-clinic-for-open-source-arts-af4c38fda0d3   We launched the Clinic for Open-Source Arts (COSA) to open up the conversation around the intersection of open source software and the arts. When you consider ‘open source software’ in isolation, you explore how tools are made and sustained, and when you discuss ‘the arts’ you’re probably going to look at aesthetics, creativity, […]