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MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it thinks of nothing but murder

Norman is a disturbing demonstration of the consequences of algorithmic bias

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Design Fiction: diegetic prototypes

*This post by Julian Bleecker raises the question: can’t you do “design fiction” about fully-functioning objects in the diegesis that are malevolent and make things worse? Of course you can, because imaginary high-tech supervillain gear is all about that. There are tons of cinematic design-fiction about imaginary gear intended for evil mayhem.This article has been…

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J.G. Ballard: Chrontopia and Post-Consumerist Society

At the center of it is a dark vision of Time in its various temporal stabilizations/destabilizations, its synchronic/diachronic time-loops and bootstrapping fallbacks, its deterretorializations/reterretorializations, and decodings/recodings of what Nick L

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Vetsch Architektur

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Living Pod by David Greene of Archigram

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Why did Swiss police arrest an algorithm? | Little Atoms

.... Artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik created a bot that crawled the dark net buying whatever it could find

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http://e-flux.com/aup/project/walker-and-walker-the-crystal-pavilion/

“The crystal prompted the evolution of the visual arts from representation of nature to abstraction, only to reinterpret abstract shape as representation of the hidden structure of everything in nature. Humans, animals, landscapes, towns and the entire universe were artistically reflected in the crystal. The crystal served as a symbol of power and the harbouring of social utopias. It ironically was both a means of keeping the spirit of Romanticism alive in the modern age while simultaneously reinforcing the modern inclination towards rational structures and mass reproduction.”

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Crystal Glass Prototype for Walker and Walker

http://e-flux.com/aup/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img2_1020.pdf

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The Crystal Pavilion - Walker and Walker

http://e-flux.com/aup/project/walker-and-walker-the-crystal-pavilion/

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directed by Robert Wilson

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directed by Robert Wilson

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becoming a building

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Set design mock up

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Avnee Jetley.

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May be interesting? I believe they have the whole book in the RCA library.

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Thebes Land review – engagingly treacherous twist on Oedipus

The father-son myth is reborn by playwright Sergio Blanco as a skirmish probing identity and male power that is funny, taut and puzzling

The play I saw recently. A rather stark and efficient set. And a limited but evocative use of television screens / projection... 

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Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing American computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network

“Society is driven by emotions, which it’s always been difficult to measure, collectively. But there are now programmes that can read text and measure it and give us a window into those collective emotions.”