Making electrical wire by hand

*All right — that spectacle was not easy. It was even silly, but none the less interesting.

Experiential design-fiction, the trio of adepts

*Nelly Ben Hayoun of University of the Underground, Jasmina Tesanovic of Share Festival, and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot at SXSW 2024 in Austin. *Also, Schroedinger’s blue rubber cat.

Meanwhile, at Serpentine Arts Tech

*Via email. Hello Friends, Today we’re excited to launch our new online home for Future Art Ecosystems. Initially, Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) was inspired by the artists we (the Serpentine Arts Tech team) worked with to create artworks that deployed a variety of emerging technologies such as AI, VR and game engines. Through these collaborations […]

Precursors of the web and social media on Geocities

*It’s like discovering that wax cylinders once held popular music. https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7358 *Olia Lialina: “Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.0 proponents, and nowadays by aggressive Web3 campaigns that […]

Retnik 6E6 Russian military multitool

*That’s some Russian milspec, all right. They’re in the private market, and they arrive wrapped in protective wax paper and preserved in “arsenal grease.”

Meanwhile, at Next Nature

Cultivating the future: the evolution and promise of lab-grown food. Remember our 2018 petition rallying for public tastings of in vitro meat? It stirred up quite the storm, even sparking a lively parliamentary debate in the Netherlands. A lot has happened since then. Meat from the lab is already approved to be on the market […]