https://www.euro-stack.info/docs/EuroStack_2025.pdf *This may be the most Francesca Bria document ever.

Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st Century. You can play it, or you can watch it play itself.” – Brian Eno “Bloom” Developed by Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers. Copyright Controlled by Opal Limited. All rights reserved. Download “Bloom” for iOS or Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bloom/i… https://play.google.com/store/apps/de… Additional apps by Brian […]

Heritage: “guaranteeing its integrity and prolonging its existence.” *I’m guessing that both those ambitious tasks are formally impossible fror humankind, but why should that slow anybody down? “Prolonging” is quite a good term. Not that heritage is eternal, but maybe it can and should be prolonged. I’m thinking that Prosper Merimee would smile at this […]

*These NGOs tend to come-and-go, but that’s how “heritage” often is; there’s a “heritage industry,” with a business model and so on, but also there are things that become heritage, and then become half-forgotten non-heritage, and then become heritage again maybe a century later. Members ACCR (Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontres) ACE (Architects’ Council […]

*If you’re into old-fashioned industrial technology-art, this can be an art-preservation issue. https://www.saveindustrialheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/industrial-heritage-management.pdf “This paper analyzes the IHM interpreted as a new way to generate touristic, social and territorial development, based on the recovery, management and valorization of the industrial heritage. The literature on the subject, although showing an increased interest, appears disarticulated and without […]

*Why not? Disney used to build whole towns.

*Quite an interesting place, where they have the studio to make the tools for people who demonstrate tools in studios. *Also that Shaper machine that uses augmented-reality tech to determine the precise position of its tool-bits, that’s quite a historically-strange device. https://youtu.be/zl-iiL2PY78?si=UZhv3ANxgybVnZ3k

NOME is pleased to announce are we there yet?, a group exhibition that critically examines issues of police brutality, mass incarceration, discrimination, immigration, and state surveillance. The show draws its title from a work by Kameelah Janan Rasheed, whose aphoristic text-based practice often grapples with complex societal questions. As with many of her works, are […]

“L’arte deve sempre essere pubblica; paradossalmente non appartiene nemmeno all’autore.” Ci piace ricordare la riflessione dell’artista Diego Scroppo, per l’evento a cui abbiamo il piacere di invitarvi: PRESENTAZIONE DI CRISTALLO DI LUCE OPERA D’ARTE PUBBLICA DI DIEGO SCROPPO prodotta da The Sharing un appuntamento del Public Program di Luci d’Artista giovedì 13 febbraio, h. 18.00 […]

*It’s interesting to see this old commercial device publicly vivisected as an open-source project, where the aspects of building and shipping such a thing are on such naked public display. Read this blog post on the web at https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-help-build-open-source-pebble-software As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is […]