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links for 2010-03-12 March 14, 2010
UbuWeb - 365 Days Project (2003) "Music From Mathematics" was an album of early electronic music, programmed by the boffins (very likely in authentic period white coats and glasses) at Bell Laboratories way back in the early 1960s (tags:... […]
Philip Julian - Low Activity Computer Solo March 14, 2010
CD - Free Software Series Recorded in London and Berlin between September and November 2008, this work uses the induction coil of a telephone connected directly to a PC running GNU/Linux and a piezo contact microphone in order to pick... […]

Scenario Two: An Optimistic view of the United States future
A positive assessment of US prospects rests on at least seven propositions. First, the current crisis is not inherently more threatening than many others, most notably the Civil War, the Great Depression, and two World Wars. Quality leadership, building on the resilient political and economic institutions of the country, will prove sufficient to bring about […]
Scenario One: A Pessimistic Forecast for the United States
This is the first in a two part series exploring a pessimistic and an optomistic future for the United States. Part Two will appear tomorrow. Iâ€™m an old (76) 1950s type liberal, and have lived to see the election on the nationâ€™s first mixed-race president, as well as some remarkable social change in the general status of women and ethnic minorities. Th […]

Stanley Cavell
Stanley Louis Cavell (born September 1, 1926) is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. […]
Rosalind Krauss' A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, by Joanna Slotkin
In her text A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, critic Rosalind Krauss expands Clement Greenberg's description of the modernist desire for "pure" art forms in order to encompass the forms and issues of art today, the art of the "post-medium" age. […]
March 31, 2010: Document Freedom Day - Linux Magazine Online
International free software organizations have declared the last Wednesday in March to be Document Freedom Day (DFD). Activities and information events will take place all over the world, including Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. […]

Arte Postale! n. 100 March 14, 2010
Via | ArtsBlog.it La rivista Arte Postale!, edita dal 1979 dalle edizioni E.O.N./Near the Edge di Vittore Baroni, dopo 30 anni cessa la sua attivitÃ concludendosi con la sua centesima edizione, che documenterÃ il progetto di â€œsuoni postaliâ€� e strumenti dâ€™artista “Bzzzoing!” parte del festival “Klang! suoni contemporanei” […]
Digital Pioneers March 14, 2010
Digital Pioneers by Rob Myers Victoria And Albert Museum 7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010 (Illustration - Herbert W. Franke, Squares (Quadrate), screenprint, 1969/70) Digital Pioneers is a deceptively modest exhibition hidden away in two rooms upstairs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It contains some of the earliest examples of art produced using electron […]

New Media Design Â» Computer Graphics (2010) March 14, 2010
New Media Design Â» Computer Graphics (2010)Source: www.0280.orgâ€œLa Computer Graphics riguarda la sintesi pittorica della realtÃ o dellâ€™immaginarioa partire dai suoi modelli basati sullâ€™elaborazione digitaleâ€�~ James D. FoleyÂ Â Â Â Computer Graphics 2010http://www.0280.org/aba/computer_graphics_2010/Â Â Â Â […]
Yes, We Camp! at iBusBox March 14, 2010
Yes, We Camp! at iBusBoxSource: www.ibusbox.netMuoversi e Scoprire, per CreareÂ Â Â Â http://www.ibusbox.net/home/yes-we-camp-ritornando-a-casa/Â Â Â Â […]