*100 years! https://www.tinguely100.com/tinguely100.html Tinguely100 – Follow the artist’s centenary activities around the world On 22 May 2025, the Swiss Artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. To mark this occasion, his innovative, playful and still topical oeuvre will be honoured across Europe with a range of exhibitions and a multitude of events […]

“I am too scared to ever use it.”

*I’m publishing a new design-manifesto here, or, whatever this missive is. Some Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness (2025) https://medium.com/p/754551c54a2d

*How smart can a wallet be? A Safer Future for Digital Art Ownership Dear Feral File Community, At Feral File, our mission is to make digital art as essential to daily life as books or music. As part of this mission, we’re evolving the Feral File app to focus exclusively on making it easy to […]

*A hard-working guy. It’s been an exciting year for Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) with installations and exhibitions all over the world, and the announcement of DATALAND opening in 2025 at The Grand LA. We’ve also been hard at work fine-tuning the Large Nature Model (LNM), the foundation on which DATALAND’s first exhibitions will be built, […]

https://grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/show/imaginary-books Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books December 5, 2024 – February 15, 2025 Second Floor Gallery Imaginary books are necessarily the rarest of rare books, since of course no such objects are to be found in our sublunary world. These works, existing nowhere but in other books, can […]

*From a repressed gray-market toward something like a Maker scene. https://macleki.org/stories/jua-kali-in-kisumu/ (…) Like government officials, scholars began referring to “jua kali” using positive terms such as the “self-employed entrepreneurs,” “the jua kali industry,” “the informal business sector,” and the like. The self-employed “jua kali” entrepreneurs were now seen as hard-working men and women engaged in […]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.17799 References Wendy Aguilar, Guillermo Santamar´ıa-Bonfil, Tom Froese, and Carlos Gershenson. The past, present, and future of artificial life. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 1:8, 2014. Jyrki Alakuijala, James Evans, Ben Laurie, Alexander Mordvintsev, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo, Luca Versari, et al. Computational life: How well-formed, self-replicating programs emerge from simpleinteraction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19108, 2024. […]

… and he’s phone-phreak “trashing” Bell Laboratories, so it’s a banner day for Adam Savage.