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maandag 28 februari 2011
zondag 27 februari 2011
zaterdag 26 februari 2011
VOINA Released From Prison
"From our friends at Pictures On Walls comes news that Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaev from Russian art group VOINA have finally been released on bail.
POW tells us...
"In December, Oleg and Loenid were arrested for making some pretty racy public art pieces. After spending three and a half months in a St. Petersberg jail infested with scurvey and TB we're delighted to report that the pair have just been released.
Officials at their court hearing were apparently unaware more than 400 punters had bought a Banksy print and the proceeds had been transferred over. A judge set bail at 600,000 roubles (a pretty unattainable amount for the average Russian) but they were able to produce all the cash on the spot and the pair walked free."
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vrijdag 25 februari 2011
donderdag 24 februari 2011
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dinsdag 22 februari 2011
maandag 21 februari 2011
dinsdag 15 februari 2011
maandag 14 februari 2011
New Social Networks With Old Technology - What The Egyptian Shutdown Tells Us About Social Media
Egypt is the latest in a series of countries to witness the powerful potential of modern social media to catalyse and mobilise people around social issues. The Egyptian government response was to have the internet and mobile networks completely shut down. This was, however, not the end of the role that social media ideas played in the events that followed. People inside and outside of Egypt collaborated to re-create the missing networks using the still-available technologies of landlines, dial-up and ham radio...
zondag 13 februari 2011
The cyberweapon that could take down the internet
A new cyberweapon could take down the entire internet – and there's not much that current defences can do to stop it. So say Max Schuchard at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and his colleagues, the masterminds who have created the digital ordnance. But thankfully they have no intention of destroying the net just yet. Instead, they are suggesting improvements to its defences...
zaterdag 12 februari 2011
Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)
As others, I have recently been transfixed by the Economist’s recitation of wondrous examples of:
“Development 2.0”—meaning a mobile-driven transformation of how poor countries develop… the potential of mobile services should not be underestimated. If they take off, they could transform lives and livelihoods, not just by connecting the world’s poor to the infrastructure of the digital economy, but by allowing them to become digital producers and innovators....
“Development 2.0”—meaning a mobile-driven transformation of how poor countries develop… the potential of mobile services should not be underestimated. If they take off, they could transform lives and livelihoods, not just by connecting the world’s poor to the infrastructure of the digital economy, but by allowing them to become digital producers and innovators....
Slacktivism and the Internet
The impact of the Internet on political participation has been a debated issue in recent decades. Internet activities have been criticized for being slacktivism, where the real life impact of the activities is limited; the main effect is to enhance the feel–good factor for participants. This article examines whether this accusation is valid. It does so by examining two aspects of Internet campaigns: Whether they are effective in affecting real–life political decisions, and whether Internet activism substitutes traditional forms of off–line participation. Although it is not possible to determine a consistent impact of Internet campaigns on real–life decisions, there is no evidence of the substitution thesis. If anything, the Internet has a positive impact on off–line mobilization. Accordingly, there is little evidence to support the accusation of Internet campaigns being slacktivism. It is at worst harmless fun and can at best help invigorate citizens. MORE
vrijdag 11 februari 2011
Today follow this...
...if you have time go on youtube english aljazeera and follow this round of outstanding media critics!
donderdag 10 februari 2011
What does it feel like to be stupid?
The following is a very unusual account of a true but unusual experience:
I had an arterial problem for a couple of years, which reduced blood supply to my heart and brain and depleted B vitamins from my nerves (to keep the heart in good repair). Although there is some vagueness as to the mechanisms, this made me forgetful, slow, and easily overwhelmed. In short, I felt like I was stupid compared to what I was used to, and I was. READ OHN MUST READ!!!
I had an arterial problem for a couple of years, which reduced blood supply to my heart and brain and depleted B vitamins from my nerves (to keep the heart in good repair). Although there is some vagueness as to the mechanisms, this made me forgetful, slow, and easily overwhelmed. In short, I felt like I was stupid compared to what I was used to, and I was. READ OHN MUST READ!!!
Phantom of the Floppera - FunToTheHead
Test run of my (d)iskette (O)rgan doing Toccata & Fugue.
People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.
Features two 3 1/2" drives and two 5 1/4" drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. This initial version can respond to all 128 MIDI notes, and pitch bends +/- 2 semitones.
As it can produce only four simultaneous notes, and each drive has a different range and tonal characteristics, best results are obtained by arranging compositions by hand. However, it features two modes of operation: in one mode, MIDI channels 1 through 4 are played directly on floppy drives 1 through 4. In the other mode, all 16 MIDI channels are read, and notes are "intelligently" divvied out on a first-come, first-serve basis. "Note stealing" ensures that melody lines sound, but chords are often cut short. One or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified MIDI files straight out of your favorite media player.
I apologize for the poor video quality. :)
woensdag 9 februari 2011
"If you think Facebook will change Yemen, you're crazy...We don't even have electricity."
SAN'A—Yemen's sanctioned opposition leaders, put on the defensive by the Internet-aided revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, are scrambling to exert influence over the country's own budding online-activist movement.
VIA WSJ
VIA WSJ
Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees whereas their American counterparts have law degrees?
Great question, and one that gets at the heart of the political cultures of these two countries. It happens that I did my graduate work--including an abortive dissertation that never got beyond a rambling proposal--on the rise of technocracy in post-Mao China. READ ANSWERS HERE
Egypt’s Revolution-Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Middle East’? - by F. W. Engdahl
Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as "creative destruction."
More HERE
dinsdag 8 februari 2011
The Future of ART
What are the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era? How is mass collaboration changing notions of ownership in art? How does micropatronage change the way artists produce and distribute artwork? The Future of Art begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation.
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maandag 7 februari 2011
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woensdag 2 februari 2011
Face To Facebook by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico
The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy:
Face to Facebook is the third work in a series that began with Google
Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir. These works share a lot in terms of
both methodologies and strategies. They all use custom programmed
software in order to exploit (not without fun) three of the biggest
online corporations (Google, Amazon and Facebook), exploiting
conceptual hacks that generate unexpected holes in their well oiled
marketing and economic system.
More HERE
dinsdag 1 februari 2011
Sunflower seeds on “Sunflower Seeds” - IOCOSE
STATEMENT
IOCOSE exhibits a new artwork at Tate Modern, made from a previous artwork at Tate Modern.
The artist group has thrown several real sunflower seeds on Ai Weiwei’s porcelain ‘Sunflower Seeds’. The porcelain seeds, previously exhibited at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, are now part of a new artwork by IOCOSE.
The new artwork looks exactly the same as the previous one, as the natural seeds and those made of porcelain are indistinguishable from each other. IOCOSE reclaims the authorship of the new installation and reminds viewers of Ai Weiwei’s previous statement: ‘what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means’.
The artwork will be on exhibition from the 29th of January 2011 until the 2nd of May 2011.
More HERE
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