Archive for April, 2010
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04.30.2010
Adaptation Festival: Hybrid Cities
What, where and when As part of the Adaptation Festival, The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform organize ‘Designing the Hybrid City’. This is an event that focuses on the role of digital media and technologies in urban design. It takes place in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, August 16-17 2010. Main theme: how do […]
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04.29.2010
Indiemapper
While similar applications like SpatialKey are aimed at business intelligence and interaction, indiemapper is built for cartographers slash designers who want to make static maps. via FlowingData
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04.26.2010
Airspace Rebooted
Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo. A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open.
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04.26.2010
Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair
Cell Phone Piano, part of a series of sculptures made from old discarded cell phones by Joe McKay. Each key on the keyboard is wired into a key on a cell phone – as you play, you are also dialing. FREE: Saturday, May 8, 12 – 4pm Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre 235 Queen’s Quay West, […]
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04.23.2010
Panoramic Wifi Camera
Panoramic Wifi Camera from Adam Somlai-Fischer on Vimeo. Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout cities of the developed world. We take real time “photos” of wifi space.
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04.23.2010
STATUS UPDATE
Image Credit: Cheryl Sourkes, BRB (Be Right Back), 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Status Update Curated by Shauna Thompson Annie Onyi Cheung, Melanie Lowe, Robert Lendrum and Matthew Williamson, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Cheryl Sourkes Doris McCarthy Gallery University of Toronto Scarborough April 28 – May 19, 2010 Opening: Wednesday April 28, 6 to […]
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04.22.2010
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION
516 ARTS announces Artificial Selection, a group exhibition bringing together art, science, myth and technology. It examines contemporary artists’ responses to the processes of adaptation, mutation and survival when the natural order distinguishing species or machine becomes less distinct.
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04.22.2010
FutureEverything
The full programme for the 2010 FutureEverything conference is now out. The best and most ambitious yet, presenting the world’s best speakers under conference themes of ImagineEverything, Unlimited Connectivity, Open Data and The City Experiment. 12-15 May 2010, Manchester, England. Obtain your festival passes now here: http://futureeverything.org/tickets The FutureEverything conference will take you on a […]
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04.20.2010
Stephen Wilson :: Art + Science Now
Art + Science Now, the first illustrated survey of its kind, provides a dazzling overview of this new strand of contemporary art, showcasing the best international work produced since 2000. Featuring around 250 artists from around the world, it presents projects from body art to bioengineering, from music and computer-controlled video performances to large-scale visual […]