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A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.

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Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment

Graphics research paper from Stanford University demonstrates a method of transferring the expressions of one person’s face to the other in realtime using depth cameras:

We present a method for the real-time transfer of facial expressions from an actor in a source video to an actor in a target video, thus enabling the ad-hoc control of the facial expressions of the target actor. The novelty of our approach lies in the transfer and photo-realistic re-rendering of facial deformations and detail into the target video in a way that the newly-synthesized expressions are virtually indistinguishable from a real video. To achieve this, we accurately capture the facial performances of the source and target subjects in real-time using a commodity RGB-D sensor. For each frame, we jointly fit a parametric model for identity, expression, and skin reflectance to the input color and depth data, and also reconstruct the scene lighting. For expression transfer, we compute the difference between the source and target expressions in parameter space, and modify the target parameters to match the source expressions. A major challenge is the convincing re-rendering of the synthesized target face into the corresponding video stream. This requires a careful consideration of the lighting and shading design, which both must correspond to the real-world environment. We demonstrate our method in a live setup, where we modify a video conference feed such that the facial expressions of a different person (e.g., translator) are matched in real-time.

More Here

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Net Cafe Refugees

Internet cafes have existed in Japan for over a decade, but in the mid 2000's, customers began using these spaces as living quarters. Internet cafe refugees are mostly temporary employees, their salary too low to rent their own apartments.

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Video from Chinese net artist Ying Miao. In the video she draws a comparison between the love story in a Lionel Richie song, and her relationship with the censored Chinese Internet.  

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Umbrella Revolution:

Protestors and student demonstrators hold up their cellphones in a display of solidarity during a protest outside the headquarters of Legislative Council in Hong Kong on September 29, 2014.  

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Dear Fight for the Future member,

Imagine how awful it would be if your favorite websites were blocked by your government. And if, no matter how tech-savvy you were, every tool or trick you used to escape censorship was blocked in a matter of months.

That’s what life is like for China’s...

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Mozfest 2014: Call for Artists, Technologists and Curators

Announcement for participation in ‘Art & Culture of the Web' organized by codekatblog and Paula Le Dieu for a Mozilla event in London. Based around the idea of ‘networked art’, I’m sure there is something the Tumblr community could contribute:

As the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous around the world, more and more web users are making the transition from consumers to creators, merging art, technology and networks to build new and surprising digital art forms with unprecedented results.

What might the combination of these experiments in theory, code and creativity — a practice we refer to as "networked art" — mean for cultural heritage organizations, artists, technologists and curators? And how might creative works inform our understandings of the open web’s key challenges, from privacy to ownership, and from identity to governance?

You can find out more at codekatblog here or at the mozfestartoftheweb Tumblr here

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Black Hang graffiti reads “based on article 92 of municipality law, writing on walls is a crime” with the stamps of Tehran hardliner mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. via http://twitpic.com/e91trg

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SPILL WINDOW @ V & A in London

Opening Times is a digital art commissioning body and platform for online artworks. For the Shoreditch Takeover, Opening Times will be showcasing work from their current artist in residence Nicolas Sassoon. Sassoon’s work Pandora explores the representation of everyday space through computer based processes, often appearing in the form of animated GIFs.

You can find out more about the event at the V&A London here

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iraneye:

A gif animated representation of Internet Censorhip & Filtering in Iran.

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#nothing (stuck in a fb loading loop)

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"The Internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word, even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.." - #AiWeiwei @aiww @lisson_gallery #Art #China #Politics #Internet #Censorship #Freedom

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