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Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards September 3, 2010
errant bodies - records, #05, 2009 "I wish the medium would be inside me" says Leif Elggren in an interview with the label owner Brandon LaBelle. The uneasiness that characterizes Elggren's work is unfolded quickly and nervously during the... […]
links for 2010-09-02 September 3, 2010
YouTube - The real life Like @ coca-cola Village The real life Like @ coca-cola Village (tags: social net) 15 Pieces of Papers Under Creative Commons License (Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike) | F.A.T. 15 Pieces of Papers Under Creative... […]

A Pill For Los Angeles? Medicating the Megacities
Los Angeles â€” and other modern megacities â€” conjure increasingly unique genetic profiles that point the way to a new medical industry: Call it urbo-pharmaceuticals. Investors are needed. Is there a pill that might inoculate us from smog? Is there a gene we can target that would make us resistant to resurgent infectious diseases? And is there a way to u […]
Progressives Against Progress
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called â€œa spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress.â€� Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. Regarding human nature as essentially both beneficent and malleable, liberals, like their socialist cousins, arg […]

Device Art Top
Device Art possesses three main characteristics: 1. The Device itself is content. The mechanism represents the theme of the piece. Content and tool are no longer separable. 2. Artworks are often playful and can sometimes be commercialized into devices or gadgets for use in everyday life. 3. Refined design and playful features are traced back to the Japanese […]
blasthaus - where art + technology converge
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Core77 - Device Art: Coming to America?
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Smart Mistakes 2010 September 3, 2010
Ogni anno Share Festival propone di dedicarsi a un tema particolare per ampliare la mente, affinare la capacitÃ e ispirare la creativitÃ . Le prossime dateÂ dal 2 al 7 of Novembre 2010 a Torino! SMART MISTAKES: sbagli, mutazioni, fallimenti, disfunzionalitÃ , discrepanze, incidenti, varianti impreviste, scoperte occasionali, estetiche dellâ€™errore, s […]
Londra: reportage dalla HTTP Gallery. [Part One - La storia e il luogo] September 3, 2010
Reduce da un breve soggiorno londinese, una pausa rigenerante dal soffocante caldo peninsulare, mi ritrovo a scrivere di questa esperienza. Sono stati giorni intensi e solo nell’ultimo pomeriggio, giusto ieri, trovo il tempo per riscostruire le tappe del percorso. Il motivo che mi ha portato a Londra Ã¨ una conferenza sull’infoestetica di IEEE, […]

Cosmo - Siamo tutti una rete September 3, 2010
Cosmo - Siamo tutti una reteFonte: www.youtube.comtrailer rai3 […]
Una storia geolocalizzata: un labirinto di assurditÃ | mrpalomar September 3, 2010
Una storia geolocalizzata: un labirinto di assurditÃ | mrpalomarFonte: mrpalomar.splinder.comHo voglia di uscire per qualche momento dal reportage sulle abitudini gastronomiche della fauna ugandese per inseguire una storia di fame che puÃ² avere origine in un punto qualsiasi del cosiddetto Terzo (o Quarto) Mondo e terminare nellâ€™idios,Credo proprio che no […]