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The story of how an AI watching a movie about AIs led to the coolest, weirdest DMCA takedown ever.
"Warner had just DMCA'd an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn't distinguish between the simulation and the real thing."
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Virtual Reality game by Stefan Wagner lets you edit the coding properties of the world you explore with your hands, and can be experienced as a walk with the aid of a treadmill:
Loop is a digital, gamelike experience that lets the user explore, deconstruct and alter its virtual worlds as he moves through them. The game’s goal is to manipulate the game experience, its side effect is that the player learns about the basics of programming. The game is being played with an Oculus Rift, an attached Leap motion sensor, and a mechanic treadmill. As the user walks through the virtual world, he will be confronted with scenes and surroundings that are (sometimes more, sometimes less) referencing real objects and sceneries in the form of system simulations. By raising his hand and grabbing »code objects«, he can interact with the world as he changes pieces of code the simulations run on. On a conceptual level, the game can be seen as a tool for editing digital worlds, with the code editor and compiler accessible directly from within the virtual experience.
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Why has the [block chain] capacity limit not been raised? Because the block chain is controlled by Chinese miners, just two of whom control more than 50% of the hash power. At a recent conference over 95% of hashing power was controlled by a handful of guys sitting on a single stage. The miners are not allowing the block chain to grow.
https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.hcrqrsue6
Back in October, Nkisi, ANGEL-HO and Rabit sat down with Truants’ Tayyab Amin to discuss ‘Decolonised Dancefloors: Race, Identity & The Global Underground’. The aim of the panel was to explore how the artists’ works and collaborations relate to these … Continue reading →
‘Decolonised Dancefloors: Race, Identity & The Global Underground’ at UNSOUND. Transcript of the interview with: ANGEL-HO, Nkisi & Rabit | Truants
“"Smart objects are objects that can describe their interactions" By recording the sounds of househould devices and processing it through speech recognition software, objects become smart and talk back , however they dont seem to have much to say.” – Max Dovey
“Algorithms are already looking through the viewfinder alongside with you: they adjust settings, scan faces and take a photo when you smile. What if your grin wasn't the only thing they cared about?” Short film about a speculative design of a new kind of camera. Shot over the course of three days in Copenhagen and Kolding, Denmark. philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta
“Historical art is developed by way of its respective era and society, meaning that it is always made in the present. Today, new technologies open up new possibilities for artistic potential.”
Interesting tools to work with LED for small/large-scale lighting enviroments like micro-shots.
“I’ve been working on a project lately that I’m really eager to share with the world: A kit of hardware and software parts to make LED art projects easier to build and better-looking, so sculptors and makers and multimedia artists can concentrate on building beautiful things instead of reinventing the wheel. I call it Fadecandy.“
More: http://scanlime.org/2013/11/fadecandy-easier-tastier-and-more-creative-led-art/
A neural network tries to identify objects in ST:TNG intro
Experiment by Ville-Matias Heikkilä applies deep learning recognition to the Star Trek: Next Generation opening titles … and doesn’t really do a good job of it …
There isn’t a lot of space stuff in ILSVRC12, so pretrained Googlenet has some serious trouble classifying stars, planets and the Enterprise. Imagenet-pretrained Googlenet. Top three classifications translated into text for each frame. The classification marked with an asterisk is the top choice. Green color indicates that the network is relatively sure about the classification (neuron value above threshold and at least 10% above the second candidate).
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“The discussion around companies like Uber and Airbnb is too narrow. The issue isn’t just employment, but a huge economic shift led by software and connectedness.“
e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale — SUPERCOMMUNITY – Eating Glass: The New Propaganda
“Imagine a Louis Vuitton pattern. Now imagine the shapes of the pattern, each of them, slowly curling into question marks. Imagine that pattern being printed across reality. Everything occurring in spacetime becomes a luxury handbag of question marks. There wasn’t enough of a budget to visualize this in After Effects, so you’ll have to use your imagination.“
Strong and funny keynote by Ramsey Nasser at EYEO Festival on the state of coding, the use of non-mechincal tools and the creation of his own programming languages. "Programming allow us to experience Post-Human Creativity". As an example Nasser points out the game No Man's Sky (Playstation) which has 18,446,744,073,709,55,616 different worlds to explore.
"The game developers have created a world which they will never see themselves. But their "voice" is in every single grain of sand in this universe. Think about that for a second... Art on a scale that defies human lifespans"
Furthermore, he's critical on some visual coding environments and says "C++ is bad for you".
“Installation by François Quévillon explores the subject of monitoring in nature with technology, with a computer that monitors and displays looping videos of remote volcanic areas of Iceland” – via prostheticknowledge
"Magnitude" (2015) is a new series of work produced by Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel. Seidel is known for his large scale projection pieces in which he transforms classical and modern architecture with organic and mystical video content. "Magnitude" is part of an online exhibition which showcases long exposure photographs of Robert Seidel’s "environmental laser drawings" captured in the Coachella Valley (USA).
"Spanning from the Coachella Valley to the edge of the Imperial Valley's Salton Sea, this series of time-based laser drawings was developed alongside the mountain terrain of the San Andreas Fault. To begin, Seidel derived each laser pattern from creating digital line drawings: gestural markings suggestive of curve progressions seen within the Richter Scale or tectonic deformations. These minimalist sketches are manipulated into complex transformational sequences scribed by the laser onto the desert’s topology. This fleeting yet precise gesture of the laser choreography becomes a visual spectacle at the intersection of seismology, performative drawing and laser interferometry extending upon the historic trajectory of Land Art in the American deserts.”
More: http://epicenterprojects.com/Robert-Seidel-Magnitude
WORD WARS - Julien Deswaef
WORD WARS, a new project by Deswaef, is an ongoing series of daily videos generated from news about war, in the style of the Star Wars opening crawl. The software autonomously finds keywords related to war in the New York Times, and uses blender to place the text into the Star Wars template, as well as automatically uploading them to youtube. There are already about 15 episodes to watch, either on the WORD WARS youtube channel or dedicated ‘News-from-the-Empire’ tumblr. Source files for this project are available on Github under a Free Art License. The project for me breaks new ground by automating the creation of more complex media, in this case video/animation, by the use of automating blender with python scripting, and combining that with bot practices such as daily news-scraping and sharing on social media. Julien has been experimenting with these new directions for a while now running the Brussels Python-Blender group, do check out their past activities and code.
"Policing is geared towards personal crime instead of wide-scale network disruption. We need build up a society-defense mechanism against it and I think this starts at a local scale first." - Frank Rieger / My Creativity Sweatshop
Zach Blass on his mask which trick biometric tracking systems at My Creativity Sweatshop at @trouwamsterdam
