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UNICE - Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities

1. UNICE: Etymology: An acronym for Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities, the hive-like consciousness that is theorized to emerge from the interpenetration of computers, humans and advanced forms of the Internet. UNICE will be composed of a collective consciousness, or group mind, and numberless individuals. It will also be capable of producing any number of protean, non-biological entities.

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:: Film & Video : Artist Series/Design Matters Live : Lawrence Weiner ::

My Damn Channel » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance #2: Occupational Hazards

Pangea Day: Encounter Point

directed by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha

mdsp @ smartelectronix: LiveCut

Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider

The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.

Livecut is only a small subset of what is possible with BBCut, but as it is available as a VST plugin, it is much easier to start experimenting with it.

Interview with Fernando Orellana - we make money not art

Holding a miniature video camera, on one side of each suitcase in Carry On is mounted a two axis robotic arm. The live video feed from this camera is displayed on a LCD screen mounted on the other side of the suitcase. Every couple of minutes, the robots change the position of the cameras, thus changing what is being displayed in the LCD screens. Lacking image analysis of any kind or other sensory capability, these suitcases blindly look about, never understanding what they see.

Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture

I've mentioned inspiration. Contemporary poets answer evasively when asked what it is, and if it actually exists. It's not that they've never known the blessing of this inner impulse. It's just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don't understand yourself.

4D2U : Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project

inflexions

The inaugural issue of Inflexions tackles an endlessly generative question that is a once the thematic of the issue, and the raison d’être of the journal as a whole: “How is Research-Creation?”

Continental Drift

…by participatory means, for whoever wants to start right now

Media Art History

"The technology of the modern media has produced new possibilities of interaction. (…)
What is needed is a wider view encompassing the coming rewards in the context of
the treasures left us by the past experiences, possessions and insights."

Summer 2000, RUDOLF ARNHEIM (b. 1904 - d. 2007)

Words Fail Me

...an exhibition that explores visual art's ongoing engagement - and entanglement - with language.