Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 192

Xunixianshi (虚拟现实), which means Virtual Reality

*In the VR arcades of Shanghai. http://chinafilminsider.com/vr-arcade... (…) “Doesn’t this look too violent for him?” I asked the grandmother. She looks at me suspiciously, and...

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Nevada Art Museum, Art and Environment Conference, Reno NV

*I’m going! These Nevada people are so far above-and-beyond land-art that they’re putting an art installation into orbit. Various luminaries *Latest exhibit:

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Processing Community Day

*Just look at those Processing communards. Their faces, they look so interesting. Software coders of the art world We are so excited for the very...

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Chinese universal face recognition

*I’m betting they go through with that. That’s gonna get strange. Also: the people who think that database will leak? I’m betting that it leaks....

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Ben Evans pondering the Stacks

*Yes, they’re very big and can do a lot of weird stuff. They can also, almost accidentally, prevent a lot of stuff from happening. Moore’s...

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Transmediale 2018: “Face Value”

transmediale/festival face value 31 Jan – 4 Feb 2018 HKW, Berlin Things are what they are—but could they be different? Under the title of face...

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“The Capital,” a regional novel about the European Union

*It’s written in German. *It sounds quite interesting. I hope it’s translated promptly because I’d be glad to read it. I might even REVIEW it....

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Fashion Fiction

*It’s not news that haute-couture costumes displayed on a catwalk are not really meant to manufactured and sold. They’re cosplay for the luxury conglomerates, a...

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Musica Globalista: Paris Hilton “Foam and Diamonds” show at Amnesia Ibiza 2017

*Ever since I saw the poster for this show in Ibiza, I wondered what it would be like. This is pretty much as I suspected....

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Near Future Design at CyberResistance in Milano

*Here you go, then: design fiction with Italian regional characteristics.

http://www.artisopensource.net/network/artisopensource/2014/03/30/near-future-design-at-cyberresistance-in-milan/

Near Future Design at CyberResistance in Milan
Posted on March 30, 2014

“AOS will be at CyberResistance, on April 3, 4 and 5 2014, in Milan, at the Cantiere, for a participatory conversation about Near Future Design, starting from the Near Future Design of the Education System which we are building with our students at ISIA in Florence.

“Near Future Design, from our point of view, is the possibility to create powerful, strategic, coordinated transmedia narratives, realizing a simulacrum, a state of suspended disbelief whose objective is to shift people’s perception of what is real and possible, and engage them into a performance to create new, preferred, desirable futures.

“We will start from the Near Future Education Lab which we are bringing up together with the students at ISIA Florence: the design of a commons-based, peer-to-peer, emergent, permeable model. This model will be started by founding a Foundation operating under wirearchical organizational models, through a crowd-funding campaign, by forming a wide network of international cooperants and by establishing a network of partnerships to access the funds for its implementation.

“To learn more about our perspectives on Near Future Design, you can read this article: Near Future Design, the perception of a New Possible, and a novel role for Design.

“You can look at the CyberResistance program here: http://www.cantiere.org/art-04368/cyb...

“And here is the Wiki for the event: https://n-1.cc/dokuwiki/1487601/doku.php in which you can participate and take action.”