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Running Cola is Africa Computer Technique Group, 1967-68

#computer art #computer technique group

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The long-lost poster for the seminal conceptual art exhibition, ‘Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art’, (Visual Arts Gallery, December 2 – December 23, 1966). 

From http://containerlist.glaserarchives.org/

#conceptual art #sva

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Healing Tool, by Brian Kane (via, via):

Healing Tool is art designed for people in cars. A temporary public art installation using digital billboards on interstate freeways.

The goal is to provide a moment of temporary relief and unexpected beauty during the daily grind of commuting.

The piece builds on a body of work which simulates digital experiences in the real world. In this case, simulating the Photoshop Healing Tool to replace or patch over the landscape which is blocked by the billboard.

During the day hours, a series of images from the specific location are shown on the display. We replace the missing background and create a magic dimensional window.

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Page spread from “The Xerox Book,” Seth Siegelaub and John W. Wendler. First edition, 1968. Edition of 1000.

#xerox art #xerox printer #seth seigelaub #conceptual art

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“Instead of having fingers that find the buttons, we built buttons that find the fingers,” said Stanford’s Sohan Dharmaraja, one of the researchers on the project.

Users place eight fingers on the screen and the keyboard appears. Shaking the device activates a menu, and further interaction is achieved by regular touch gestures.

Update: Click here for a video demo!

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Dieter Rams wouldn’t do it again if he could start over

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Under Californian law, details of car accidents remain confidential.

However, Google said its driverless cars had never been the cause of an accident, and that the majority of “minor fender-benders” had been in the form of rear-end collisions from other drivers.

“Safety is our highest priority. Since the start of our programme six years ago, we’ve driven nearly a million miles autonomously, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident,” said a spokesperson

Well, it’s to be expected that there would be some hitches in development. We talked about what driverless cars would choose to hit in our Ethics episode.

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The Story of Brad, the needy toaster

#internet of things

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A glimpse into a bizarro near-future, one where the internet of things leads not to harmoniously interconnected gadgets but rather a house full of junkies

#internet of things

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We are very excited to announce the fifth annual Theorizing the Web! We’ll be two days again, April 17th and 18th. And the International Center of Photography has partnered with us to provide space for the event in lower Manhattan.

We’re putting together keynotes on photography, attention,...

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Venture Capital Firm Appoints an AI to Board of Directors

The tool was developed by Aging Analytics UK who’s licensing it out to DKV, a capital fund that focuses on companies developing therapies for age-related diseases and regenerative medicine.

DKV will use VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences) to analyze financing trends in databases of life science companies in an effort to predict successful investments.

It works by poring over massive data sets and applying machine learning to predict which life science companies will make successful investments.

The company has already used VITAL to inform investment decisions in two start-up life science companies, Pathway Pharmaceuticals, Limited in Hong Kong and InSilico Medicine, Inc in Baltimore, USA. The long-term goal is to get the intelligence to the stage where it’ll be capable of autonomously allocating an investment portfolio.

Eventually, the software is expected to get an equal vote on investment decisions. “The variables involved in the long-term success of a biotechnology company are many and complex,” said DKV Senior Partner Dmitry Kaminskiy in a prepared statement. “We were attracted to a software tool that could in large part automate due diligence and use historical data-sets to uncover trends that are not immediately obvious to humans surveying top-line data. We plan to incorporate new information from prospective investments into the databases to compare the outcomes against our selected investments.”

#technology #AI #investing

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Computers are People, Too! (1982)

A Disney produced movie the possibilities for interaction between man and computer. Read the Vice article on it's online resurrection here.

#retro computing

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Tech companies Google and Apple have recently been criticized for their lack of diversity in the workforce. Here to talk about it is our own Sasheer Zamata.

#emoji #unicode

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Shaggy, co-founder of the Pirate Bay. The foil blankets block emf signals from computers being captured and decoded outside.

#pirate bay

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VOLUME / A5

Art project by Luigi Amato and Roberto Arista is a publication that focuses on the design features of a book as tech as opposed to the content the medium conventionally delivers:

VOLUME is the first of a series of experimental publications involving the book form as the specific meaning of its realization. Deliberately inspired by The new art of making books by the artist and collector Ulises Carrión, this publication inquiries the book as an autonomous and self-sufficient medium, a volume in the space in which the physical aspects (dimensions, weight, page numbers, sequentiality an so on) and the modes of fruition become the content of the book itself. Through a script, it has been possible to measure the single page properties and the relation between multiple pages along the space-time sequence of the book. The data made visible by VOLUME show the continuous physical and perceptive variations acting in/on the book during the reading process.

More Here

#book art #technology

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Mobile Lorm Glove, a communications device for deafblind persons.

The Mobile Lorm Glove is a communication and translation device for the deaf- blind. It translates the hand-touch alphabet Lorm, a common form of communication used by people with both hearing and vision impairment, into digital text and vice-versa. The prototype enables the deaf-blind user to compose messages via the pressure sensitive palm of the glove that are transmitted as a text message to the receiver's handheld device. Vibrotactile feedback patterns allow the wearer to perceive incoming messages. It supports communication over distance, provides access to autonomous information and serves as an interpreter for people not familiar with Lorm. http://www.design-research-lab.org

#wearable technology #lorm #communication #haptic technology

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Smart Textiles: Clothes That Monitor Your Biomedical Data

Canadian researchers have developed “smart textiles” able to monitor and transmit wearers’ biomedical information via wireless or cellular network by superimposing multiple layers of copper, polymers, glass, and silver.

“The fiber acts as both sensor and antenna. It is durable but malleable, and can be woven with wool or cotton, and signal quality is comparable to commercial antennas,” explained Professor Younes Messaddeq at Université Laval…

“The surface of the fiber can also be adjusted to monitor a range of information, such as glucose levels, heart rhythm, brain activity, movements, and spatial coordinates.”

#smart textiles #wearable tech #wearable technology