“The next generation of political radicals will have passed through some form of these online political spaces and will bring with them many of the oddities, peculiarities and baggage of internet subcultures”.
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“The next generation of political radicals will have passed through some form of these online political spaces and will bring with them many of the oddities, peculiarities and baggage of internet subcultures”.
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“Driessens & Verstappen are fascinated by the idea that all the faces of all the people who have ever lived and will ever live, may be found within the enormous quantity of grains of sand existing on earth”.
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Thirty minutes of rain from thirty games. Headphones recommended.
GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as “Dungeons and Drag Queens”. Once thought to have been lost, the game’s software was recently discovered and preserved – and is now available in the Internet Archive.
“The first webcam ever was invented by lazy students at Cambridge University who didn’t want to waste a trip to the nearby coffee pot if it was going to be empty when they got there.”
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Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.”
In the 1920s, Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the scholar of art and culture, created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne tracing recurring visual themes, gestures and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond to contemporary culture. At HKW all 63 panels of the Atlas will be reconstituted for the first time from Warburg’s original, partly multi-colored images.
John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space.
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens | Official Trailer | Netflix
Bryan Boyer has built a device he calls a VSMP (Very Slow Movie Player). It’s an e-paper display that shows a movie not at 24 frames/sec but at 24 frames per hour.
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Dedicated to all the “maskholes” out there…
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“In this video, @KaoruGans0 walks around Shibuya like a character from a video game: stilted and repetetive pacing; sliding oddly along walls; and interacting robotically with landmarks, conspiciously obvious items and other people.”
渋谷でゲームあるある再現してみた pic.twitter.com/dk5KH6kUgM
— がんそ【駒沢アイソレーション】 (@KaoruGans0) August 5, 2020
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Cassette Pencil Sharpener – Concept by Shane Chen
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Open a new window somewhere in the world. Simple, amazing project.
Man wears cameras for an entire year in order to revisit any past moment in VR. Not exactly a time machine, but close enough.
In this footage, artist William Cobbing wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off layers with a wire to reveal a gooey, dripping face.
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This video series by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, made while self-isolating because of COVID-19, is amazing. Be sure to check the other episodes too.