February 2012
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The Autonomous Parapoetic Device by Adam Parrish is a self-contained and portable machine that generates poetry. Constantly creating new sequences of words, lines, and stanzas, the APxD promises serendipitous encounters between aleatoric (but affective) text and our experience of physical space.  The text that the device generates is ephemeral: it remains on screen for only a small time, and then...
Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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“I’m concerned that the people most involved with AI are primarily technologists....”
– Jonathan MacDonald
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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“There’s something to doing less, having less, building something for just...”
– Russell Davies - Secondary attention and the little boxes of sound
Feb 16th
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“The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You...”
– WIlliam Gibson - The Art of Fiction No. 211
Feb 16th
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“As he wonders whether he could discreetly sidle into the bookies to place the...”
– Dan Hill - Street as Platform  as seen through the OSX Summarize service set to one sentence.
Feb 14th
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“The cautionary layer is about the weirdness that comes from software that tries...”
– Russell Davies - Subtle Fail
Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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“In this near-future, it’s very hard to identify the ‘U’ in UI’ – that is, the...”
– Matt Jones - Gardens & Zoos
Feb 12th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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“If everyone now has the ability to make their own things, then surely everyone...”
– Tim Burrell Saward - Making Things The Hard Way
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Tingle by Rhys Duindam is a new instrument which is used to teach young students about music. The instrument is a converted pin-board toy that is used to demonstrate the forming of music and sound. The 3D landscape, created by whatever is underneath the board, is used to generate the metaphoric musical landscape. It is a 3D version of the sound visualizers normally embedded in music softwares and...
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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“As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have...”
– Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via tim)
Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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