Welcome to the Post-Text Future – The New York Times

Welcome to the Post-Text Future – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/09/technology/the-rise-of-a-visual-internet.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Continue reading →

An Artist Stares Back at the Surveillance State

Here is a nice little interview with Trevor Paglen talking broadly about his work, new ways of seeing, image making and machine vision. “Multimedia artist Trevor Paglen is mapping out the new landscape of digital communications and surveillance. In this wide-ranging interview the photographer, sculptor, geographer and writer talks about how he is learning to … Continue reading →

Alexandre Larose screening

@ The Young Gallery, Wellington, part of the Circuit Symposium Phantom Toplogies September 2016 The work St Bathans repetitions 1/2/16 – 21/3/16 (portraits de Jacques à St Bathans, avec interlude de paysages, sur écran translucide) could be descibed as a series of sketches or studies. These exploratory fragments have come from a recent residency by the experimental Canadian video … Continue reading →

Oskar Fischinger Raumlichtkunst (c. 1926/2012)

Images: courtesy Center for Visual Music Three-projector HD reconstruction by the Center for Visual Music 2012 on at the Govett-Brewster Space, light, music: A dizzying 3 screen projection of moving-image works by Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967). Unfortunately, I have been asked to remove the video so you have to take my word for it but the accompanying … Continue reading →

davos 2016: privacy and secrecy

Sorry for the delay on these post. Just cleaning out my drafts folder. Commonality = priveldge information = value which we trade . Sharing of nuggets of information . goverenments engage in surveillance and espionage Should government be allowed to read someones emails? NO (sort of) / Yes (with a caveat) / YES (sometime) / Yes (with … Continue reading →

really long trunks: first ever youtube video

Uploaded on Apr 23, 2005 The first video on YouTube. Maybe it’s time to go back to the zoo? Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is an American-bangladeshi internet entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube and was the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named “Me at the zoo” and … Continue reading →

Tokyo Light Odyssey by WOW inc

Here is a bit of 360º magic from wowlab.net/research/beyond-motiongraphics. Even better on your device with cardboard or the likes. 【360° Movie】Tokyo Light Odyssey Continue reading →