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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.”
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Choe and the IPO
Via nytimes.com
Feb 2012
In 2005, David Choe painted graffiti-style murals at Facebook’s first office in trade for shares of stock. With the announcement of Facebook’s initial public offering, Choe’s efforts for the company could be worth more than $200 million.
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RIP SOPA
Via mashable.com
Jan 2012
After widespread protests—including website blackouts at Wikipedia, Reddit, and others—Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief author of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, pulled the proposed bill. Many feared the overbroad language would limit free speech online.
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MOCA TV
Via nytimes.com
Jan 2012
LA MOCA’s just-announced YouTube TV endeavor will include a documentary on street artists, a “Cribs”-style look into artists’ studios, and an “art comedy series,” among others, plus aggregated video content from elsewhere.
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Artists Against PIPA
Via fightforthefuture.org
Jan 2012
“Copyright law exists to promote the arts,” write a group of artists opposing the PROTECT-IP act, “but the new penalties in PIPA could be used against the new social media channels we depend on to make a living, and endanger freedom of expression.”
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Rhizome Joins Blackout
Via rhizome.org
Jan 2012
Digital art hub Rhizome joins Wikipedia, Reddit, the Internet Archive, and others in Wednesday’s blackout in protest of the Stop Internet Piracy Act and its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act, which it calls “‘blacklist’ creating legislation.”
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Blackout Against SOPA
Via wikimediafoundation.org
Jan 2012
Noting that passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act, now being debated in Congress, “would be devastating to the free and open web,” Wikipedia announced Monday that it’ll black out its English-language site Wednesday in protest of the bill.