BO ReLab

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Hatsune Miku (初音ミク?), sometimes referred to as Miku Hatsune, is a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed byCrypton Future Media. Hatsune Miku is portrayed as a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise twintails. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 andVocaloid 3 singing synthesizing technologies. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a singing synthesizer VSTi Plugin. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine, and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as an animated projection.[1]

The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first(初 hatsu), sound (音 ne) and future (ミク miku[n 1]), thus meaning "the first sound from the future," referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series."

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kitschy documentary that have some interesting points here and there.

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Coursera - Free Online Courses From Top Universities

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planning on taking this online free course at CALART.

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MONSTER/

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i.Mirror -part 2-, Cao Fei, 2007

where Cao Fei avatar China Tracy get close to another avatar.

They talk about RL (real life) and SL (second life).

(amazing)

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/vr5oe46fztqf35b/HBO.Documentaries.Love.Child.HDTV.x264-BATV.mp4?dl=0

watch the full documentary “LOVE CHILD” about the couple who left their newborn child die while playing a game with child rising at his core.     password/ same as course password on videos.

----- Very interesting point to develop: 

Comparing shamanism and spiritual practices to gaming and internet, a quote from the documentary: 

(the shamans) .... the work take them to another dimension. They are each possessed by a certain spirit. That spirit can then guide them into the spirit world. The top level shamans claim to be able to travel to hell and rescue a spirit who have been lost in hell. You are entering a virtual world carrying on a virtual mission. That is a very similar idea to what's the premises of internet gaming.

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Tamagotchi L-I-F-E app review!

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In 2010, a 3-month-old baby named Sarang died of malnutrition while her parents were out of the house. The two were at a local Internet cafe, binge-playing a game called Prius Online, in which they were tasked with raising a virtual child.

The couple, who met online through the game, fled out of fear but were eventually captured by the local authorities and tried for the murder of their child. After a series of mental-health tests and interviews, the court ultimately ruled that they were not guilty of murdering their child, because they couldn’t distinguish the virtual world from reality. Each received a very short jail sentence for negligent homicide.

The international news media leapt onto the story, expressing both fascination and disgust with the tragedy. That included director Valerie Veatch, who set out to understand the modern-day cultural and technological influences that caused Sarang’s death.

The result, a HBO documentary called Love Child. 

(source: Yahoo Health)

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Talking about virtual life and Utopia

(Cao Fei and Hand Ulrich Obrist in Conversation)

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CUI CANDOR MORTEM REDEMPTUS

monster, 2015/coming soon

Beatrice Orlandi

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Cao Fei’s avatar China Tracy documentary on Second Life

i.Mirror, first part of three, 2007

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This face was generated using facial recognition on September 25 / 2015 using Google searches on the following top keywords of the day: Thursday Night Football, Dorothy Day, stampede, Lane Kiffin, Heroes Reborn, John Boehner, Grey S Anatomy, Kim Zolciak, Good Burger, Scandal Season 5, Ali Landry, Morena Baccarin, How To Get Away With A Murderer, Aurora Bridge, Facebook down, Leighton Meester, Kendrick Lamar J Cole, How to Get Away with Murder from the project Recognised Faces by Kristoffer Ørum Archive: recognisedfaces.tumblr.com About: http://recognisedfaces.tumblr.com/about

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Recognised Faces is an internet application that generates a daily image of a face from images found via google’s lists of top search terms. Facial features in the found images are identified, using facial recognition technologies usually reserved for mass surveillance, before being combined into an image of a new face. After being generated these faces are used as the personal avatar of Kristoffer Ørum on his website, on various social networks and anywhere else his image might be indexed and scanned for facial features by intelligence agencies, commercial agents or other interested parties.

By constructing new faces from parts of the most looked upon images on the internet Recognised Faces creates a snapshot of the flow of data collection and facial recognition that happens daily on the internet, thus utilising facial recognition to generate phantom faces that reflect how computers perceive us as vaguely recognisable patterns in an ocean of data. When these phantom images are fed back into the internet, they may help to destabilise the NSA’s or google’s images of who Kristoffer Ørum is ever so slightly.

The glitchy faces that emerge from the computer’s dispassionate gaze clearly differ from how faces appear to a more human gaze. They may appear somewhat monstrous and weird, but for the most part they remain strangely reminiscent of the beauty ideals that dominate mainstream media as well as most of the internet. What to human eyes might appear to be errors and distortions reveals traces of the statistical mode of perception that is really at work here - illustrating shortcomings of much reviled surveillance technology while providing us with a mechanical mode of observation that just might reveal things about our species that our own perception is unable to show us.

Kristoffer Ørum (marts 29, 2015)

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Instacry/ part of Exo-Reality show project. 

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RMB City is a virtual city in the online world of Second Life, planned and developed by Beijing artist Cao Fei(SL: China Tracy). Launched in 2008, and open to the public since January 2009, RMB City is a platform for experimental creative activities, one in which Cao Fei and her collaborators use different mediums to test the boundaries between virtual and physical existence. As a laboratory for investigations in art, design, architecture, literature, cinema, politics, economy, society, and beyond, RMB City is constantly nourished by new and innovative projects, and supported by leading international art institutions and networks. As a model of avant-garde urban planning, it traverses the boundaries between past and future, real and virtual to link China and the cosmopolitan contemporary world.

In 2009, RMB City was a lab for both filmmaking and live theater. Cao Fei’s first documentary film after building RMB City, The Birth of RMB City, took a dreamy and epic look at the city, showing how it was constructed, but also highlighting it’s fragility by depicting an inevitable demise. After this film was completed, she invited different artists to use various mediums to create different live artworks, and those works also became the life of the on-line city. Based on those creative actions, Cao Fei made two films in the video format: People's Limbo and Live in RMB City, both of which became chronicles of human experience in RMB City.

Cao Fei does not only investigate in virtual space however, and in 2009, she traversed boundaries to bring RMB City to the real life space by creating RMB City Opera. This stage performance brought the interaction and tension between real and virtual identities to light in front of an audience, by using both physical and Second Life spaces to set the stage for interaction between actors and avatars.

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Cao Fei, LA Town, Venice Biennale 2015. Trailer.