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Arte Laguna, March, 16-31, Venice. Section: Virtual Art, Telecom Italia Future Centre

"Liquid Views" (1992) is a simulation of artifical water in which the viewer’s reflection is portrayed as in real water.

Derrick de Kerckhove observes "Touch is Vision"; Ryszard W.…

The largest clear error of the Supreme Court was calling internet wire communications "internet" and alleging these wire communications using computers as the electronic apparatus on either end of telecommunications used some "unique and wholly new medium" in ACLU v Reno.

Internet wire communications are simply use of a computer on one end of a wire to communicate to computers on the other end of wires though these communications may include radio…

Supernovae, neutrinos and photons, energy conservation, a little about star structure and general relativity.

                                                  NO MATH NEEDED! 

                                         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

Introduction

If you are in high school you…

I have an interesting predicament. Well, actually it's more a pain in the arse, but interesting none the less.  If you type my full name, Melissa Ann Zagorski (MAZ), into Google, the first link that is listed is NC DPS Offender Public Information which contains info on a crime committed by a different MAZ.  Now, if you type my name into those people finder search engines, I am the only MAZ listed.  How can this…

UNESCO recently anounced the publication of a new book, NET.LANG: Towards the Multilingual Cyberspace.

Internet is a wonderful tool to learn about people's cultures and languages. The promotion and use of multilingulism in cyberspace is essential to preserve the rich diversity of languages around the globe and build stronger international cooperation.…

The Health Research Web Project is a collaborative web platform dedicated to research in health sector and created by the COHRED. It focuses on improving healthcare, particularly in developing countries, and it is open to researchers and professionnals working in health sector who want to share information, datas or discuss about management or governance issues related to healthcare.

What it is, more precisely :…

The
Open Internet has ALWAYS been against the law. 
ALWAYS. 

When the laws that ARE ALREADY ON THE BOOKS SINCE 1934 are enforced  EXACTLY as written, "Open" internet simultaneous wire and radio communications will cease to exist.
The
open Internet has ALWAYS BEEN ILLEGAL!




FULL DISCLOSURE:

I have sued the United States, the FCC, Google Inc, Microsoft…

Right now, the US Congress is sneaking in a new law that gives them big brother spy powers over the entire web -- and they're hoping the world won't notice. We helped stop their Net attack last time, let's do it again.



Over 100 Members of Congress are backing a bill (CISPA) that would give private companies and the US government the right to spy on any of us at any time for as long as they want without a warrant. This is the third time the US Congress has tried to…

IN MEDIA RES (2): hundred passages to social change

Feb. 2012

In media res is a latin expression refering to a narrative form used by Homer in the Iliade and which consist of plunging into a past situation (history), at any point in time, to further develop a story related to a chain of event. He was the first to introduce a non-linear narrative process in greek literature. Since then, many artists explored non-linear creative paths in literature,…

The art of surveillance has been practised throughout history. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, for example, written in the Fifth Century BC, contains a chapter on “The Use of Spies” where he describes the different ways spies may be used to monitor enemy forces. The most crucial development that has taken place, with the rise of democratic states, over the last two to three hundred years, is that the focus…

A revolution in academia is coming. New social media and other web technologies are transforming the way we, as academics, do our job. These technologies offer communication that is interactive, instantaneous, global, low-cost, and fully searchable, as well as platforms for connecting with other scholars everywhere.

Scholarship: Knowledge Production and Use in a Networked Society

Scholars now completing PhD’s have likely never known a world without the Internet and social…

Performing Data, published on the occasion of our retrospective at Laznia CCA in Gdansk, Poland with texts by R. Kluszczyński, D. de Kerckhove and L. Farulli. PDF http://ning.it/x78Gry

Catalog with DVD (10 € / 25 PLN) http://ning.it/zy6h0y

Interview http://ning.it/xK1UQI

Works permanent at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. …

The exihibition "A trip to the moon" that will be presented at the Bonniers Museum in Stockholm (Sweden) next spring is raising questions about the development of new communication technologies such as social media, mobile phones, i-pads etc...and their impact on the film industry and traditional media like television.

New cultural phenomena and social behaviour emerges with the spreading of Internet and social media related technologies. They are not only…

The Digital Government Society (DGS) welcomes you to the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012), set for June 2012. The dg.o meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary digital government research, technology innovation, applications, and practice.



The meeting is taking place June 4-7, 2012, at the:…

Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative–our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a new technology but also the likelihood of its  large-scale adoption.

This year’s predictions:…