The renewed Levi Versificatore, a monument for modern Torino

*It’s a good idea, eh? We’ll give it a try! https://video.italian.tech/dossier/italian-tech-week/itw-23-il-guru-della-fantascienza-bruce-sterling-costruiremo-a-torino-il-versificatore-di-primo-levi/4607/4772

Here comes Italian Tech Week

*Replete with the tech intelligentsia! https://italiantechweek.com/en/event-info

The TESTED media-makerspace / office

*Make a cardboard model and think about it.

“Dead NFTs: the evolving landscape of the NFT market”

*They’re not “evolving” very fast. https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/ The Vast Majority of NFTs are Worthless Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH). This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, […]

SOURCE, a new exhibition from Feral File

Now Open: SOURCE, a 0xDEAFBEEF, Operator, and Casey REAS collaboration SOURCE, an exhibition looking back on the energy and enthusiasm during the last few years around art, code, and blockchains, is now open. Comprising over two dozen artworks selected by curators 0xDEAFBEEF, Casey REAS, and Operator (Ania Catherine, Dejha Ti), SOURCE pauses to take stock […]

Italian inventions and discoveries

*This must be a fraction of them, but it’s quite interesting nevertheless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_inventions_and_discoveries G Galleon (origins): historical evidence suggests that this iconic type of ship was pioneered by the early 16th century Venetians and later spread to Iberian Peninsula, where it became widely adopted and further developed.[99] Gelato: Procopio Cutò is credited with being the […]

Non è più fantascienza

https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/dossier/speciale-itw-2023/2023/09/16/news/bruce_sterling_la_crisi_climatica_non_e_piu_solo_fantascienza-414726288/

Developments at nettime list

*Long a favorite of the (mostly) European media-theory crowd. From: Davide Bevilacqua Hi , last weekend during Ars Electronica in Linz we had a local meetup to welcome the list to its new home in Linz at servus.at A few list members and non-yet members were present in a brief discussion round before the traditional […]

The forthcoming Laura Kampf American makerspace

*My goodness, that’s quite daring. How will it end?