Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 783
June 13, 2009
Bill Thompson, BBC Tech Art Critic at the Venice Biennale
http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/06/12/pixels-and-paintbrushes/
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“While there was a lot of interesting art, I saw little that attempted to explore our use of or reliance on technology itself, and the only two pieces I encountered that seemed to have any connection to digital technology for its own sake were rather disappointing as neither was actually working when I visited.
“The animatronic cat in the German pavilion didn’t move at all, (((the underplayed pathos of this is te
What are museums good for, exactly?
*I mean… can’t we just craigslist them with a better interface to the Wayback Machine?
http://newcurator.com/2009/01/museums-most-important-function-part-ii/
World’s Greatest Chair Designer Has Designed a Brand-New Chair
*Fantastic. The guy is 81 years old. He’s like a vast, spreading oak tree.
He’s such a titan of industrial design that I feel not one whiff of embarrassment
in posting his product ads wholesale!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Diffrient
http://www.humanscale.com/newsroom/pressDetail.cfm?press_id=2791
NEW YORK, May 27, 2009 — Humanscale introduces the Diffrient World chair by legendary designer Niels Diffrient. Representing ultimate simplicity in a high-performance task chair, Diffrient World s
June 12, 2009
Workshop on Ambient Media Computing
*Man, you wanna talk about a set of tall orders….
Workshop on Ambient Media Computing -Deadline extended to July 5th, 2009
ACM International Workshop on Ambient Media Computing: Media Data
Integration (MDI 2009) — Submission deadline extended to July 5th!
Call for Submissions
Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China (((Finally, a use for half a million Chinese
design students a year)))
October 23, 2009
http://www.hkws.org/events/ACM-MDI2009
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009
“In multimedia computing and man
Warbbler
*Thinking hard about atemporality today. Assembling atemporal notes
and examples. Trying to work my way up to some coherent critical
statement about it.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ega9...
So Long, Koko
“With one brother accompanying on a guitar made out of bailing wire and nails and one brother on a fife made out of a corncob, she began on the path to blues woman.”
*Man, that’s so America.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/late-blues-great-koko-taylor-gets-musical-sendoff/23764
June 11, 2009
Not looking real great for that French HADOPI law
*Sarkozy did a lot of broken-field running to get that law passed. He’s gonna sidle
sideways and try it again.
*In other European news about indestructible heads of state, Gordon Brown will
be staying in power because none of his email-leaking frenemies have the nerve
to face him down in public. They were busy punching the f1 function key, but
when they had to jump Caesar hand-to-hand an
No wonder they call it the “participatory web” nowadays
From: Rick Bullotta at Burning Sky Software
“I saw Bruce’s comment on his Spime Watch blog regarding Pachube/Wave integration, and wanted to let you know that we’re building the wave robot for that “as we speak”. It should be live in a day or two, and if you’re a Wave sandbox user, the Wave robot will be sensorbot@appspot.com. You’ll be able to put a tag in a wave (for Pachube and other sensor feed sources), and our robot will periodically get the values for the Pachube feed(s) and update them
Timo Arnall: Wireless in the World
*”Visualisations of wireless technology.” Sometimes you just can’t beat pretty!
Wireless in the world from timo on Vimeo.
LucyandBart
http://www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com/
“LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human
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