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Researchers at Berkeley have developed a system that reads people’s minds while they watch a video and then roughly reconstructs what they were watching from thousands of hours of YouTube videos.

Nishimoto and two other research team members served as subjects for the experiment, because the procedure requires volunteers to remain still inside the MRI scanner for hours at a time.
They watched two separate sets of Hollywood movie trailers, while fMRI was used to measure blood ...

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23 September – 23 October 2011 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, Rome, Italy tuesday-sunday 16.00-24.00 tickets: full price € 5,00; reduction € 3,00 tel: 060608 (everyday 9.00-21.00) www.fotografiafestival.it

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Jaime Martinez‘ solo exhibition “Ciencias Sobrenaturales” opens tomorrow at the Vice Gallery in Mexico City and I wrote a little curatorial text for it. Don’t miss it!
Testo in pdf (italian version)

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Awesome project! Faces, from Vimeo user Arturo:
Real-time face substitution. Made with Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker + Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, a C/C++ API for real time generic non-rigid face alignment and tracking.
Inspired by Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.
(via Dangerous Minds)

 
 

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NOW (#2 mirror) by Doug Aitken…
(via today and tomorrow)

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Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Demographic Development Sweden 1970-2050
As you may know, since 2010 I’m in charge of the “Photography and New Media” section of FotoGrafia. Rome International Photography Festival, this year at its tenth edition. The show opens at Macro Testaccio, in Rome, on the 22th of September… come and take a look of you’re around!
 
23 September – 23 October 2011 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio ...

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Patrick Guns, No To Contemporary Art, 2006
 

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“For decades now, people have joined together online to communicate and collaborate around interesting imagery. In recent years, the pace and intensity of this activity has reached a fever pitch. With countless communities engaging in a constant exchange, building on each others’ work, and producing a prodigious flow of material, we may be experiencing the early stages of a new type of artistic and cultural collaboration. In this episode of Off Book, we’ll speak with ...

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Manuel Palou, 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte, 2011
1 TB hard drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the included files along with their download url can be found here.
[via sympathyfortheartgallery]
 

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Words of wisdom by John Waters, interviewed by Big Think… (oh and he says also that contemporary art hates you! and that’s very true)
[via hyperallergic]

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