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Subscribe Twitter Facebook Categories Art 22 cloud/crowd 5 Computer 6 Demystification 6 Essential 13 Metaphoric 6 Political 8 Research 4 Seductive 14 Uncategorized 3 Research Confusion The Ignorant Schoolmaster In preparation of APPLESFORGERRIT… Posted: October 14th, 2014 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Political To The Cloud To the Cloud: big data in a turbulent world Date: 25 September 2013 Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm Location: A7.03, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, Northwick Park tube (Metropolitan Line) Location: Watford Road, Northwick Park, Middlesex HA1 3TP – View map … Posted: September 23rd, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Political Perfect Summer Olia Lialina swings like a perfect cloud in Summer between 21 sites Screen shot of Olia Lialina’s “Summer” (2013) (via sebastianschmieg.com/olia/summer/ )… Posted: August 23rd, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Essential , Metaphoric Holidays Brain/Cloud by John Baldessari Giving my brain a rest during the holidays and forgetting about this subject… … Posted: July 10th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art Social Problems SOCIALDESIGNFORWICKEDPROBLEMS Art as Research and Research as Art is here to stay. And it’s going to solve our social problems… Posted: July 7th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Research NOA Language School A language school as a research format … Posted: July 3rd, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Research Research? What research? How to speak of this research when I’m half way through it and still very confused about where it’s going to.… Posted: June 27th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Research Rietveld Clouds Absorption, accumulation, condensation – are words we would associate more with the study of the weather than of art. But for this year’s Graduation Show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the students of the Rietveld Fine Arts department have curated … Posted: June 26th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Seductive Bernaud Smilde Berndnaut Smilde : a captive of his own cloud? I was inspired by one of his pictures to start this research. Now I only find it shallow and seductive.… Posted: June 20th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Seductive Cloud Face Shinseungback Kimyonghun , Korean artist, uses a computer to find faces in the clouds Human sees figures in clouds: animals, faces and even god. This kind of perception also appears in computer vision. Face-detection algorithms sometimes find faces that are … Posted: June 20th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Computer , Essential Uncloud unCloud Control your own cloud The proliferation of social networking and current developments in service-based platforms (what has become known as ‘cloud computing’) provide explicit examples of the privatization and commodification of social production. What becomes clear is that our … Posted: June 19th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Demystification , Political Cloud Appreciation Society THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY Cloud Lovers, Unite! At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them. Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the … Posted: June 17th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Essential Nuage au Musée Exposition “ NUAGE ” au Musée Réattu à Marseille The exhibition : Offering the visitor a different approach to modern and contemporary art, the exhibition draws on the natural world for its subject matter. It is concerned with the anthropological … Posted: June 13th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Metaphoric , Seductive Cloud computing is a trap Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner. The concept … Posted: June 9th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Political Cloud Box Cloud Box 1966, by Peter Alexander … Posted: June 5th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Seductive Black Cloud on Research The Center For Dying On Stage The Centre For Dying On Stage is an ephemeral research residency venture exploring the spectacle of death caused from within a performative state of being.The centre structures, archives, commissions and presents undertakings that investigate … Posted: June 4th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Metaphoric , Research Agnès Varda’s cloud Today is the birthday of Agnès Varda, my favourite film maker. She has decorated the wall of her back yard with a painted cloud. Here is what she says about her films: “I try to find fluidity in whatever I … Posted: May 31st, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Metaphoric Welcome to iCloud What is Apple hiding behind their metallic icon?… Posted: May 29th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Computer Ways of Cloudkeeping By Robert and Shana Parkeharrison , in a series of black and white photos … Posted: May 29th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Metaphoric , Seductive Covered by Clouds A work by Lawrence Wiener… Posted: May 15th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Seductive Stormy Weather 51% Of People Think Stormy Weather Affects ‘Cloud Computing’ If there’s a buzzword that’s more soporific/confusing than “cloud computing” we’re not sure what it is. A survey from Citrix confirms that we’re not the only ones who feel this way. … Posted: May 5th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Demystification Does cloud computing have weather? By RODCORP art, architecture, books, maps, stories, and occasionally how teams and systems work. How we guffawed a mist of flat white coffee onto our iPads when a survey said that half of Americans think that stormy weather affects cloud … Posted: May 5th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Essential Captives of the Cloud Captives of the Cloud: Part I By Metahaven, in e-flux journal We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over by governments we did not elect. … Posted: April 3rd, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Demystification , Political Ils ne se mouchent plus du cloud Ils ne se mouchent plus du cloud, un article de Marie Lechner paru dans Libération, 26/02/2013 L’Internet est aujourd’hui partout, dans nos poches et nos ordinateurs. Partout et nulle part à la fois. Bienvenue dans l’ère du cloud, l’informatique « … Posted: April 2nd, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Demystification Crowd Workers Unite! Crowd workers of the world, united in a single gesture: the middle finger response … Posted: April 1st, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , cloud/crowd Cloud Beauty Clouds made of styrofoam cups, by Tara Donovan (from Ace Gallery) Tara Donovan is an Brooklyn-based artist exploring sculpture by assembling everyday objects including plastic objects such as translucent straws and Styrofoam cups into fields. The layers of the objects … Posted: March 26th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Essential Diller & Scofidio The Blur Building is a media pavilion for Swiss EXPO 2002 at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Prior to entering the cloud, each visitor responds to a questionnaire/character profile and receives a “ braincoat ” (smart raincoat). … Posted: March 1st, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: Art , Essential , Metaphoric Build a school in the Cloud The Cloud can give magic to everything 2 TED TALKS by Sugata Mitra . First he shows how kids teach themselves through a Hole in the Wall . A few years later, he adds The Cloud to the teaching concept … Posted: February 28th, 2013 ˑ Comments Closed Filled under: cloud/crowd , Computer , Political , Seductive A Queer History of Computing A Queer History of Computing (This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a … Posted: February 21st,...