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Virtual Hadid
Via broadmuseum.msu.edu
Mar 2012
In anticipation of the opening its Zaha Hadid-designed facility on the Michigan State University campus this fall, the Broad Museum of Art hired artists John Fillwalk and Adam Brown to create a virtual museum mirroring Hadid’s architecture.
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Art Tumbling
Via flavorwire.com
Mar 2012
While the Walker’s Tumblr blog doesn’t make the cut, some of our favorite sites do. Flavorpill rounds up its favorite art-related Tumblr pages, including Museum Nerd, Hyperallergic, and a “blog by the so-called Jeff Kooons.”
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Against Cyber-Censorship
Via rsf.org
Mar 2012
Monday is World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, and Reporters Without Borders notes that while Arab Spring activists have made great use of online tools over the past year, countries from Bahrain to Vietnam keep struggling for a free internet.
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Aggregator’s Etiquette
Via nytimes.com
Mar 2012
At SXSW, media writer David Carr looks into web curation ethics. “Where is the line between promoting the good work of others and simply lifting it? Naughty aggregation is analogous to pornography: You know it when you see it.”
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The Art of the GIF
Via pbsarts.tumblr.com
Mar 2012
GIFs have come a long way since 1987, when the web-based image format brought us animated flames and “Under Construction” signs. Today, as PBS tracks, they’re the basis of a new kind of art, with Tumblr and Reddit helping to spread GIF-based memes.
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Facebook & Free Speech
Via fastcodesign.com
Mar 2012
Tobias Leingruber has shut down FBbureau.com, a satirical art project in which he proposed official Facebook ID cards, after the online giant had its lawyers send him a cease-and-desist letter claiming trademark infringement.
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Robocopter Symphony
Via upenn.edu
Mar 2012
At the TED conference Wednesday, Vijay Kumar presented a video he and his robotics team at U-Penn created: a swarm of flying “nano” copters programmed to strike instruments and play the James Bond theme song.
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Artomatons
Via telegraph.co.uk
Feb 2012
Robot-made drawings, sculptures that walk through an exhibition space, and other kinds of sound, electronic, and time-based art: That’s what’s in store at the Kinetica Art Fair, on view in London through Sunday.
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Infantcore
Via machineproject.com
Feb 2012
Experimental music by babies! That’s what’s in store Feb. 18 at Machine Project’s LA storefront: “Scott Cazan has written software for the occasion that uses a camera and a computer to track the babies’ movement and convert it into different sounds.”