*Something interestingly decadent about this. It’s like building ships inside a bottle, but for the sake of YouTube traffic. *There’s also something “luxury tactical” about it, especially since the miniature tools pretend to function. https://youtu.be/QRUlOe01108?si=SixEqWnc5agOu9iD

*She’s very “private Utopia,” Laura Kampf. I’m a little surprised that she hasn’t built her own private toaster and hand-made her own forks yet.

12 & 13 December, we celebrate 10 years of ThingsCon! We return to Amsterdam, to the Volkshotel. Our theme for 2024: Generative Things We are shaping the first plans and will share them over the coming months. They are all inspired by this theme Workshops and talks RIOT publication Specially commissioned exhibition On that last […]

*Wow, Vladan Joler won one. https://ars.electronica.art/mediaservice/en/2024/06/24/starts-winners-2024/ (Linz/Brussels, June 24, 2024) 1,308 submissions from 81 countries were received for the European Commission’s STARTS Prize in 2024. At the end of April, the jury met in the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and chose the winners of the two main prizes, each worth 20,000 euros: The “Grand […]

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*That’s kind of fun, isn’t it? Really working the AI-generated steampunk. *It’s nice that it has a brief Turinese sidelight, too. https://medium.com/p/7c941028c4d8

May 22, 2024–January 12, 2025 Triennale Milano Viale Alemagna, 6 20121 Milan Italy Add to Calendar triennale.org Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube Triennale Milano presents the exhibition Gae Aulenti (1927–2012), staged in collaboration with the Archivio Gae Aulenti and curated by Giovanni Agosti with Nina Artioli, director of the Archivio Gae Aulenti, and […]

*That book’s quite old and out-of-print now. I may do an English-language version of it some day, if the years spare me.

*It’s easier to read this than it is to explain it. https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-weird-as-the-new-kitsch/