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Future Applications Lab
Via my site stats I found the website of lalya gaye at the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden. Lalya is one of the researchers working on the sonic city project I mentioned a while back, and also the intriguing picture this project: “Picture this!” explores the future of photography. The mechanical and optical constraints…
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80s reject quiz
Urgh, obviously spending far too much time writing my thesis and not enough connecting with my heritage: Via artmachine.
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The Open Video Project
More open content: The Open Video Project. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Clips are searchable by keyword and freely downloadable, or you can view a fastforwarded quicktime version first.…
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Hardware Mashups
Via things magazine, I came across Bootleg Objects, which is an interesting project that questions the neat analog-retro vs. techno-futurist-digital divide. A 1970s Bang and Olufsen hi-fi repurposed as DVD player, a Technics turntable that doesn’t turn, displaying cutouts of vintage record covers instead. I like.
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MediaCon
Lawrence Lessig reports: Mark Cooper, of the Consumer Federation of America has published a new book, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age. The book will be can be purchased at Amazon (link to come), or it can be downloaded for free (pdf) under a Creative Commons license. Also via Lessigblog – The…
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The Next Big Thing
Embarrassingly, it is yet again via Anne Galloway that I come across another excellent cultural studies-esque blog: Steven Shaviro’s The Pinocchio Theory. What sent me there was an interesting quote Anne posted from a piece in which Shaviro introduces us to a 19th Century French sociologist called Gabriel Tarde, a contemporary of Durkheim, and all…
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Fabulous Blogware
This is a test post using w.bloggar which is just completely cool. No more logging into blogger.com via a browser just to post entries or edit templates. One of its many excellent features is the ability to tell the world what track you were listening to at the time of posting using the Windows Media…
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The High/Popular Divide in Postmodernity
Anna wants to know why art is still imagined as an elitist enterprise, especially when there is such an “indie” (i.e. organic, collective, unfunded) culture around localised performing arts practice in Adelaide (where she lives and works). It’s not often I get to regurgitate chunks of my nearly-finished-thesis in response to a blog post, so…
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Post-Digital Music
Interesting article by Kim Cascone called The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music (pdf). From the introduction: […]the revolutionary period of the digital information age has surely passed. The tendrils of digital technology have in some way touched everyone. With electronic commerce now a natural part of the business fabric of the…
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Blogs and Ephemeral Media
At Invisible Shoebox, Meredith announces that her interview with pixelkitty is now up at Melbourne-based online culture mag Sleepy Brain. Saichan from sleepybrain comments: is it ironic that such an ephemeral medium as blogs can be set in stone in a magazine (albeit an online mag…)? Meanwhile, in the post yesterday I received a hardcopy…