Kyo no Midori san(今日の緑さん) October 11th, 2008

Sensor Interface enables plants to blog. From Hiroya Tanaka Lab, Keio SFC and KAYAC.

PARTS UNKNOWN October 10th, 2008

PARTS UNKNOWN
Shiho Fukuhara will present her new work “PARTS UNKNOWN” at The Beautiful Children, an exhibition curated by Joakim Borda and Colm Lally. The project was created during her residency at AMBIENT.VISTA in London. The event is part of The Wharf Road Project organised by V22.
DATE: Friday 17 October, 2008
LOCATION: 50-60 Wharf Road, London N1 7RN, UK

Common Flowers at Nam June Paik Award September 23rd, 2008

BCL’s recent work ‘Common Flowers’ was nominated for Nam June Paik Award and will be exhibited in impressionist collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne from 26 September until 16 November 2008. The prize will be announced in mid October 2008.

Nominated artists:
• Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (Damaskus/Los Angeles)
• BCL / Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel (Tokyo/Vienna)
• Attila Csörgo (Budapest)
• Tatiana Blass (São Paulo)
• GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental (Salvador de Bahía)
• Johanna Reich (Cologne), Förderpreisträgerin 2006

Low Res Google September 12th, 2008

low-res-google

3G Internet access feels in many ways like a time-tunnel to the first times I connected to the Internet. Only then it was only a FirstClass BBS and emails were sent to and collected from the ‘real Internet’ only twice a day. If I remember correctly.

My first run in with Netscape was not a happy one, largely due to my otherwise quite nice but visually handicapped Mac SE/30. Blazing fast (for the time), but only black and white, which meant that half of the Internet was dark for me. And thanks to these 17 pages I was forced to look at the source codes more closely.

Back to now. 3G Modem Access, troubles logging, bad images. Very much like a time machine. Another side-effect of this provider-side compressing is, that it literary takes the gloss off all the images; and produces very nice visual artefacts, which I thought went extict quite some time ago.

But of course my first reaction was, that Google was celebrating their 10th birthday by turning the time back on their logotype. But I guess that’s no it.

Gheorghe Dan presenting Balkan.OS live at ISEA 2008 July 30th, 2008

Gheorghe Dan present ‘Balkan.OS – A cosmological OS’ at ISEA 2008 live in Singapore on July 29th.

The room was filled, the silence deafening.

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_schedule_29.html

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/d-h/p440.html

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0806/msg00011.html