https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_85 The European Commission has launched today two calls for contributions on competition in virtual worlds and generative artificial intelligence (‘AI’) and sent requests for information to several large digital players. All interested stakeholders are invited to share their experience and provide feedback on the level of competition in the context of virtual worlds and […]

*It’s pleasant to see Felix Schelhasse so enthused about his well-equipped Makertaiment studio and its power-tools. You will notice that Felix uses the power-tools in particularly showy ways; even working on the power-tools on camera is an integral part of his ongoing YouTube show. *That’s not unusual in Makertainment, but it is unusual that Felix […]

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf (…) Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service. Defendants’ generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) tools rely on large-language models (“LLMs”) that were built by copying and using millions of The Times’s copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, […]

Dear nettimers, this Friday our Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org) celebrates 20 years of our research group being based inside the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). The party will take place at OT301 with a program featuring our recent activities, followed by a line-up of DJs.You can find the full program here: https://networkcultures.org/events/expanded-publishing-fest/. There […]

http://www.memofonte.it/home/files/pdf/GAZZETTINO_DELLE_ARTI_DEL_DISEGNO.pdf (machine translation) TO OUR READERS «Entry is prohibited.» These words in very clear color are written on the door of all the Appendices of every newspaper, for anyone who sometimes feels it vague to express their opinion about art, which the critics entrenched there as in many fortresses, ruthlessly reject anyone who tries to […]

Dear friends of HEK, We hope that you have all had a good start to the new year, one in which many media art highlights await you once again at the HEK. To kick things off, we are showcasing the multifaceted Swiss media art scene by presenting the winners of the Pax Art Awards 2023. […]

STARTS Prize & STARTS Prize Africa: Submission windows open (Linz, January 8, 2024) With the S+T+ARTS initiative, the European Commission is supporting pioneering projects that draw on the intersection of science, technology and arts. Outstanding examples of such innovations are awarded the STARTS Prize and the STARTS Prize Africa, which is being announced for the […]

*That seems like plenty. https://designmanifestos.org … S Saatchi & Saatchi (n.d.) How to survive as a Saatchi & Saatchi suit Stefan Sagmeister (2007) Manifesto #09 Stefan Sagmeister (2008) Obsessions Salone del Mobile (2018) Il Manifesto Antonio Sant’Elia (1914) Manifesto of Futurist Architecture SARK (1989) Everyone Is An Artist Francesca Sarti / Arabeschi di Latte (2021) […]

*One could spend all day in there. https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2023/12/19/domus-most-read-articles-in-2023.html *There’s always something to learn from Domus. For example, if elegant and refined “Italian Brutalism” seems strange, then Turinese Brutalism is almost sure to be even weirder.