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Cinema Electronic arts

Algorithmic Editing & Database Cinema

a blog about Future Cinema, and a good article about the Kinder/Manovich debate on database vs. narrative.

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Culture Politics

Our view of Africa

Chimurenga is a magazine that can change your view of Africa ; also responsible of the African Cities Reader, on a new kind of urbanism in the oldest continent known to mankind.

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Cinema Science

Capturing the mind of a child

If psychologist Jean Piaget was the scientist who managed to capture how children view the world, probably the artist who managed to do this best on film is Jacques Doillon.

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Cinema Electronic arts

Moving projectors

In 1977, I began to wonder why movie cameras move and movie projectors do not…” says media artist Michael Naimark.

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Nature New technologies Science

Swarm intelligence

Swarm intelligence is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial.

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Electronic arts

PsyArt

an online journal for the psychological study of the arts

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New technologies

Titanic

Let’s celebrate human failure & megalomania !
Happy Birthday to the ship that God Himself could not sink…

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Storytelling

Tagmemics

Claiming that Chomsky’s view of language is not practical in the context of ethnolinguistics, missionary Kenneth Pike invented the concept of tagmemics to build bridges between cultures that have different languages and worldviews.

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Politics

Axis

C’est sous le nom de «pays de l’Axe» qu’étaient connus les pays opposés aux Alliés pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.

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Electronic arts

Telegarden

Ken Goldberg created the Telegarden in 1995 at the Ars Electronica Center.