“The only appropriate response is the most profound ambivalence. That’s what we owe new technologies: we have to teach ourselves to be absolutely ambivalent about them, and mainly we have to teach ourselves to imagine their inadvertent side-effects. Because the inadvertent side-effects are the side-effects that tends to get us”
(William Gibson, 1997)
“Helle Breth Klausen, a doctoral student at Aarhus University in Denmark who researches digital media, including A.S.M.R., classifies ambience videos as a kind of “self-medicating media.”
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“Nobody.live presents random Twitch streams with nobody watching — until you are”.
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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Man wears cameras for an entire year in order to revisit any past moment in VR. Not exactly a time machine, but close enough.
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.
Conceptual art at its best!
How do artists capture movement? What happens when our actions become codified – or exploited? A fascinating video-essay by Alan Warburton
by Kim Laughton
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag, voiced by Werner Herzog…
Yilmaz Sen designed Balenciaga’s latest social media campaign. The artist imagined a set of avatar-type models in Resort 2019 outfits looking blankly at the camera whose bodies slowly start to contort.
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Talking about road accidents and robots…
Nam June Paik, The First Catastrophe of the 21st Century, 1982
Location: 75th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan, outside of The Whitney Museum
“For this performance, the robot K-456 was removed from its pedestal at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which hosted Paik’s retrospective exhibition, and guided by the artist down the street to the intersection of 75th Street and Madison Avenue. When crossing the avenue, the robot was “accidentally” hit by an automobile driven by artist Bill Anastasi. With this performance Paik suggested the potential problems that arise when technologies collide out of human control. After the “collision”, K-456 was returned to its pedestal in the Museum.”
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Surreal video of the Day by Kim Laughton. Meet the Craxxxmurf!
“A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live webcam input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us.”
A project by Memo Atken
Reynold Reynolds, A Review of our changing visions of the Future as shown in over 50 Films, USA 1996, 16 minutes
“It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real… but not quite. After decades of innovation, we’re at the point where we can conjure just about anything with software. The battle for photoreal CGI has been won, so the question is… what happens now?”
Written and animated by Alan Warburton with the support of Tom Pounder and Wieden + Kennedy. Music by Cool 3D World.