Micro Laser Kickstarter Welding Machine

*If you laser-slice your fingers off or weld both your eyes shut, don’t go and cry to the blog here. https://youtu.be/csWDatE2g6w?si=9o-5VZQx-fKSd-8D

Here comes Artissima

LE PRIME NOVITÀ   Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino svela le prime novità della sua 32esima edizione, che si terrà all’Oval di Torino dal 31 ottobre al 2 novembre, diretta per il quarto anno consecutivo da Luigi Fassi e realizzata con il sostegno del Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo e con le Gallerie d’Italia – […]

She put her machine shop in the dining room

*Oh for heaven’s sake. https://youtu.be/JZXtTWSZPCc?si=hKGcGO21KNhjFgei

Google AI augmented reality

*They’ve been building head-mounted AR glasses for over a decade. *If at first you don’t succeed, kill it and try again.

Error 417 Expectation Failed at !Mediengruppe Bitnik

Dear friends of Internet art, unexpected infrastructures and better futures, After a long, interesting and sometimes bumpy journey through a surprisingly elusive and sometimes adversarial contemporary bureaucracy, we are finally launching Error 417 Expectation Failed. Error 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation to support radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. So to […]

The fabricated crisis of art criticism

https://hyperallergic.com/1012944/the-fabricated-crisis-of-art-criticism/\ (…) “The real problem with art criticism today is the profusion of bad-faith actors, useful idiots, vapid scenesters, pitiful star-fuckers, press-release recyclers, dull theorists, hopeless graphomaniacs, paid influencers, cheap provocateurs, and apolitical, nihilist hacks. “But even the abundance of those in our field is a sign of a thriving ecosystem. Every forest has its […]

“Macchine Inutili 2025”

*He’s hard to beat for kinetic-art erudition.

A new Dunne and Raby book

…on the subject of speculative design.

Billian’s “drum and bass sound sculpture”

*The title is “Mekanize.”

An aesthetic theory of AI art

Problems of the worth and value of generative art aren’t new. What’s new about AI generation is that it tends to disguise itself as artificial human intelligence. Here Cory Doctorow is making a rather John-Ruskin-like argument that a cast-plaster replica of a statue lacks the aesthetic meaning and integrity of a human-carved marble statue. It’s […]