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tinguely100 | Programme and Press Kit for the 100th Birthday of Jean Tinguely Dear media representatives, On 22 May 2025, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) would have turned one hundred years old. To mark this occasion, his innovative, playful, and still highly relevant work will be celebrated at Museum Tinguely and internationally with a […]

https://processingfoundation.org/fellowships Processing Foundation Fellowship 2025: Call for Applications The Processing Foundation Fellowship is back! This year’s theme, Data Storytelling, invites artists, coders, and researchers to transform data into interactive, visual, and performative storytelling experiences. Fellows receive $10,000, mentorship, and community support. 🌟 New this year! The Extended Realities Fellowship with The Unusual Suspects Theater Company […]

Microsoft Bing AI: Your Turinese Baroque-inspired greebles, now adapted for individual elements and game design, are on their way. I hope they bring the elegance and complexity of 1600s architecture to life in your project!

*Into the tall administrivia weeds of open-source in an extensive screen by a software engineer. https://jnsgr.uk/2025/02/engineering-ubuntu-for-the-next-20-years/ (…) Process is closely tied to automation, but is frequently viewed negatively in software engineering, carrying connotations of bureaucracy and slowdowns. In my experience, a well-designed process empowers people to enact changes with confidence. Ubuntu is built by all […]

https://medium.com/@bruces/how-to-rebuild-an-imaginary-future-2025-0b14e511e7b6 The “print” version of an extemporaneous speech given in Austin on March 12 at SXSW 2025. Twenty years ago, here at South By Southwest, I was on a panel where the term “design fiction” was made public. Before Julian Bleecker invented and deployed that term, there were many things going on that resembled “design […]

Next Nature – Enter Spaceship Earth Do you dream of the future of our planet? Do you envision a world where humanity, technology, and nature merge in a revolutionary way? Then this is your chance! Submit your project to the Next Nature Museum’s Open Call by March 31st, and who knows, maybe your project will […]

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As described by the owner of “Propstore.”

*These intellectuals of the French “Ancien Regime” are really working the class distinctions between art and technology here. Mere mechanical craft is something you’re forced to do in order to be made to be useful to others, and is mostly crass labor you could do as a repeated routine with a blindfold on. While art […]