Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 719
November 6, 2009
The Humanity+Plus Summit
*Lemme know if you leave the premises posthuman.
http://www.humanityplus.org/summit/
Organized by Humanity Plus
Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the (possibly quite near) future.
We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
The possibilities are tremendously broad and exciting—and the H...
Augmented Reality: .txt interactive
*I have definitely suffered days like this working on novels.
.txt interactive digital performance - excerpt#1 from ponto txt on Vimeo.
"This short video excerpt is from the opening night of .txt at the Museu do Oriente integrated in the ExperimentaDesign biennial 2009."
Construction 76 von Lia
http://www.contentaward.at/abstimmen/376
*Like Processing videos (a fave here at Beyond the Beyond)? Here's a rare chance to vote for one in this Austrian video contest, earning noted net.artist Lia a handsome sum.
Francesco Tristano and Carl Craig
*They're in town here in Torino during Share Festival. Check out this Tristano guy, a classical pianist, bangin' out those Carl Craig Detroit-Techno loops on an analog musical instrument.
Francesco Tristano & Carl Craig - The Melody from Arno [Input Selector:] on Vimeo.
*I saw Craig speaking today and he remarked "We're all sound designers now."
Bits 'N' Pieces: Design in a Post-Digital Era
*I dunno if "post-digital" is exactly the best term of art, but we're seeing more and more of this activity where the artist / designer / builder seems to be declaring "look at me getting kinda fed up with staring into this screen." Not least, here at Share Festival in Torino, where a lot of the media art for 2009 is made out highly-material stuff like rubber bands, steel wire, dust, lead weights and fishing line.
The Great Estonian Novel has not yet been written
*Nobody can fret over literature like Europeans. I defy you to find a single article among the many in here where any European litterateur is having a good time.
http://www.eurozine.com/comp/literaryperspectives.html
*Surely SOMEBODY is gonna really worry about that Estonian problem…. Yeah, three hundred guys:
"…the debate was more telling than that. First, it attested to the fact that the authority of the Estonian Writers' Union is still intact. Literary life in Estonia revolves around this o...
Watch the planet's bloggers briskly suppressed in near real-time
*I see that American steampunk enemy-of-the-state "Dr. Calamity" made the cut.
http://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org/
"A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them."
November 5, 2009
In case you need Greek philosophy to wear latex and rubber
*Write in to us if you go to this Brooklyn fashion show and you survive.
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November 03, 2009
AIRE: THE SECOND FOURFOLD ROOT
A live exhibition of dark fashion works.
10:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14, 2009
319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206 (L to Grand)
WEBSITE: http://events.AreYouDevoted.com
CONTACT: Marie at Press@AreYouDevoted.com
NEW YORK — Devotion Gallery is pleased to...
L'UOMO MECCANICO di Andre Deed
"Mission impossible: trova 10 film geek made in Italy"
*Okay, WIRED ITALIA found ten geek films made in Italy. More to the point, they found a film from 1921 featuring a truly awesome Italian Futurist robot.
The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World
*Oh, why stop there, you big snarky cynics: in the contemporary art world, EVERYBODY is powerless.
http://hyperallergic.com/711/powerless-20/
A few weeks ago Art Review announced the Top 100 power brokers in the art world but we thought they missed the real story. So Hyperallergic has released its own list of the people who have never received their moment in the sun.
We present "The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World!"
1 – Everyone entirely unknown to Hans Ulrich Obrist – If the...
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