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New technologies Performance Politics

Robots on strike

Will robots ever go on strike ?
The Parisian subway system, inaugurated in 1900, operates two lines (1 and 14) with no driver.

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Electronic arts New technologies

Music, Mind and Meaning

Listen to some of Marvin Minsky’s piano improvisations, and (re-)read his classical paper on Music, Mind and Meaning.

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Architecture Education New technologies

Fab Labs

Fabrication Labs (Fab Labs) perpetuate the Do-It-Yourself Maker movement by providing open access to physical prototyping tools. Some of them are listed on this map.

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New technologies Politics Science

Killer robots

Les robots-tueurs ne sont plus une fiction… dixit l’Observatoire des armements à Lyon.

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Culture Electronic arts New technologies

The Art of Gaming

If games are considered an artform, video games can be studied in art history classes.

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Cinema New technologies

«a movie was transmitted on Internet»

The very first film ever to be transmitted on the Internet was a film about bees transmitted by David Blair in 1993, and is still online.

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Culture New technologies Politics

Hiroshima mon amour

In 1959, Alain Resnais compared the Hiroshima bomb to failed relationships.
In 2010, Americans and Japanese have agreed to work together on the «Hiroshima Reconstruction Project», supervised by Eric Hanson (xRez Studio), to create a virtual model of what Hiroshima was like before 1945.

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Cinema New technologies

Où va le cinéma ?

Archive en ligne de rencontres et débats qui ont eu lieu en 2008
au centre Pompidou à Paris.

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Cinema New technologies

Bolex Digital

Resurrection of the Bolex camera, with the first digital model.

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New technologies Politics

Réduire la fracture numérique

World Summit of Information Society Forum 2013 in Geneva hosted by the ITU.