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The Ignorant Schoolmaster
In preparation of APPLESFORGERRIT…
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To The Cloud
…To the Cloud: big data in a turbulent world
Date: 25 September 2013Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm Location: A7.03, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, Northwick Park tube (Metropolitan Line) Location: Watford Road, Northwick Park, Middlesex HA1 3TP – View map -
Perfect Summer
Olia Lialina swings like a perfect cloud in Summer between 21 sitesScreen shot of Olia Lialina’s “Summer” (2013) (via sebastianschmieg.com/olia/summer/)…
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Holidays
Brain/Cloud by John BaldessariGiving my brain a rest during the holidays and forgetting about this subject…
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Social Problems
SOCIALDESIGNFORWICKEDPROBLEMS
Art as Research and Research as Art is here to stay.
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NOA Language School
A language school as a research format
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Research? What research?
How to speak of this research when I’m half way through it and still very confused about where it’s going to.…
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Rietveld Clouds
Absorption, accumulation, condensation – are words we would associate more with the study of the weather than of art. But for this year’s Graduation Show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the students of the Rietveld Fine Arts department have curated …
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Bernaud Smilde
Berndnaut Smilde: a captive of his own cloud?
I was inspired by one of his pictures to start this research. Now I only find it shallow and seductive.…
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Cloud Face
Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Korean artist, uses a computer to find faces in the clouds
Human sees figures in clouds: animals, faces and even god. This kind of perception also appears in computer vision. Face-detection algorithms sometimes find faces that are …
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Uncloud
unCloud
Control your own cloud
The proliferation of social networking and current developments in service-based platforms (what has become known as ‘cloud computing’) provide explicit examples of the privatization and commodification of social production. What becomes clear is that our …
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Cloud Appreciation Society
THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY
Cloud Lovers, Unite!
At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them. Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the
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Nuage au Musée
Exposition “NUAGE” au Musée Réattu à MarseilleThe exhibition: Offering the visitor a different approach to modern and contemporary art, the exhibition draws on the natural world for its subject matter. It is concerned with the anthropological …
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Cloud computing is a trap
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner. The concept …
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Cloud Box
Cloud Box 1966, by Peter Alexander
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Black Cloud on Research
The Center For Dying On Stage
…The Centre For Dying On Stage is an ephemeral research residency venture exploring the spectacle of death caused from within a performative state of being.The centre structures, archives, commissions and presents undertakings that investigate -
Agnès Varda’s cloud
Today is the birthday of Agnès Varda, my favourite film maker. She has decorated the wall of her back yard with a painted cloud.
Here is what she says about her films: “I try to find fluidity in whatever I …
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Welcome to iCloud
What is Apple hiding behind their metallic icon?…
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Ways of Cloudkeeping
By Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, in a series of black and white photos
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Stormy Weather
…51% Of People Think Stormy Weather Affects ‘Cloud Computing’
If there’s a buzzword that’s more soporific/confusing than “cloud computing” we’re not sure what it is.
A survey from Citrix confirms that we’re not the only ones who feel this way.
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Does cloud computing have weather?
By RODCORP art, architecture, books, maps, stories, and occasionally how teams and systems work.
How we guffawed a mist of flat white coffee onto our iPads when a survey said that half of Americans think that stormy weather affects cloud …
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Captives of the Cloud
Captives of the Cloud: Part I By Metahaven, in e-flux journal
We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over by governments we did not elect.
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Ils ne se mouchent plus du cloud
Ils ne se mouchent plus du cloud, un article de Marie Lechner paru dans Libération, 26/02/2013
L’Internet est aujourd’hui partout, dans nos poches et nos ordinateurs. Partout et nulle part à la fois. Bienvenue dans l’ère du cloud, l’informatique « …
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Crowd Workers Unite!
Crowd workers of the world, united in a single gesture: the middle finger response…
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Cloud Beauty
Clouds made of styrofoam cups, by Tara Donovan (from Ace Gallery)
Tara Donovan is an Brooklyn-based artist exploring sculpture by assembling everyday objects including plastic objects such as translucent straws and Styrofoam cups into fields. The layers of the objects …
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Diller & Scofidio
Prior to entering the cloud, each visitor responds to a questionnaire/character profile and receives a “braincoat” (smart raincoat). …
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Build a school in the Cloud
The Cloud can give magic to everything
2 TED TALKS by Sugata Mitra. First he shows how kids teach themselves through a Hole in the Wall. A few years later, he adds The Cloud to the teaching concept…
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A Queer History of Computing
(This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a …
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Turing Test text
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Why aren’t we reading Turing
An excellent article and research published in Futherfield?
So Alan Turing was born 100 years ago today. More or less every esteemed field of technological discovery has been plugging certainevents and exhibitions surrounding the Turing centenary this week, each …
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No cloud over the data center
‘DATA CENTERS GRAND TOUR (THIS DATA BELONGS HERE)’ BY SILVIO LORUSSO
Start the tour here > http://data-centers-grand-tour.co.uk/
Viewable here 15 February – 30 April 2013ʻData Centers Grand Tour (This Data Belongs Here)ʼ by Silvio Lorusso is the second e-PERMANENT …
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Paper Clouds
Cloudy House: A Geodesic Paper Cloud Installation by Tomás Saraceno
Installation by Tomás Saraceno (previously) at Andersen’s Contemporary Berlin. The exhibition consisted of numerous suspended geometric clouds made from white matte paper along with video, photographic, and …
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Smoke & Dust
Lisa Oppenheim, Billowing. As we were driving up to Norfolk yesterday I saw the Enfield fire; where a Sony distribution centre set ablaze by rioters was just pouring out smoke over the motorway. The sheer amount of smoke was quite …
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Hans Peter Feldman
Hans Peter Feldmann archiving the clouds and selling them at Miami Art Fair
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Feeling Cloudy
Clouds are perhaps the best possible expression of a mood. Sometimes, they mirror our inner climate.…
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I am a cloud
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Karolina Sobecka
“Nephology 1: Cloud Maker” (2012) is a work by Karolina Sobecka
…Nephology 1: Cloud Maker attempts to construct knowledge of clouds through investigating how the clouds encounter the world around them.
Making a cloud is a little like making a
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Lorna Simpson
Cloud in Black & White Lorna Simpson
…October 5, 2006 – February 4, 2007 Upper Level GalleryLorna Simpson has earned a place alongside the leading artists of her generation through works that are forceful yet enigmatic, challenging yet seductive. This -
CLOUDS Interactive Documentary
CLOUDS presents a generative portrait of a digital arts community in a videogame-like environment. The artists inhabit a shared space with their code-based creations, allowing you to follow your curiosity through a network of stories.
What does it feel …
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Indoor Cloud
Create Indoor Clouds In Your Home Based On Weather Conditions
Sometimes the weather’s bad enough outside that the last thing you want is to bring it into your lounge, but that hasn’t stopped the experimental arm of a German design …
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Build your own cloud
A very popular computer product!…
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Where is our data?
Google has just opened a new data center in Amsterdam.
But where is it?
In the clouds?Where is data physically stored and kept?
Why is it important to keep it secret?All they give on their site is this …
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Who owns the cloud?
Megaupload and the Government’s Attack on Cloud Computing in Electronic Frontier Foundation
…The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data by storing it on a cloud computing service. … And now the government is trying … -
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Cloud Confusion
Ninety-five percent of those claiming they never use the cloud actually do so via online banking and shopping, social networking, and storing photos and music…
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The Known Unknown
A sequence of events was described in an old book and many readers had granted them faith, so that other authors have taken this story, transcribing and interpreting in a thousand ways, by cause a series of events. Over the …
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Cloudworkers.nl
Cloudsourcing: de massa als bedrijfsmodel. Marianne Sturman eigenaar van Moneypenny en Cloudworkers: “Door werk simpelweg ‘de cloud’ in te gooien, doet de massa de rest. Het verbaast me dat bedrijven de massa niet (nog) meer inzetten als verdienmodel.” Read …
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Cloudkeepers.net
My favourite way to engage a reflection on a subject around internet is to produce material for the web, text material, links, visual material. My very first act was to register a domain name. I was lucky enough to …
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Cloud Sourcing
Cloud Sourcing is a new place to find programmers and designers for your next web and mobile project. Its a smart matching platform that matches professionals to projects. Its a work in progress and we’re in βeta…