quarta-feira, 23 de junho de 2004

Mobile Compatible Search Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth (Reuters). Reuters - Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 12:29:06 PM    comment []

Karaoke de-definition... at ISEA2004 Call for entries: artist-made karaoke videos. Paging William Hung... CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE:ARTIST-MADE KARAOKE VIDEOS For screening at ISEA2004 CRUISE AND LOS ANGELES FREEWAVES FESTIVAL Deadline: July 26, 2004 We are soliciting short videos for a global karaoke jukebox on a ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm as part of ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. Videos for CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE should re-invent the pop-cultural medium of karaoke. From Tokyo to Tallinn, the ubiquitous, democratic form of entertainment activates national identity, nostalgia, sentimentality, and glimmers of rock-stardom. Individual performances transform this generic format into ironic, campy, critical and individualized meanings. Erupting within the entertainment-industrial complex, these do-it-yourself appropriations recode the corporate into the personal. We invite artists to create musical video-dramas for the crooners of ISEA2004, and later, Los Angeles Freewaves Festival. Videos the length of pop songs should be submitted with vocals-free music. Read along lyrics preferred. Midi files, if necessary, can be downloaded for free off the web. For more info, e-mail this woman. (Thanks, Mara!) [Boing Boing] 12:24:09 PM    comment []

The Day After Tomorrow Climate film put to computer test. Computer users worldwide are joining an experiment to test the plot of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 3:01:41 AM    comment []

Apple Supercomputer (for military purposes...) Apple Servers To Power No. 2 Supercomputer (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - COLSA will use Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Xserve G5 servers to build what the company says will be the world's second-fastest supercomputer. [Yahoo! News - Technology] NB — In case you haven't noticed, warfare is one of the main technology development factors. Namely in the audiovisuals and IT sectors (U-matic VCR recorder; Internet protocol and many other wonders still to discover...). Post-contemporary art should learn how to cope with these new levels of complexity. There is one possible name for it: TACTICAL MEDIA — Antonio C-Pinto 2:53:29 AM    comment []

Open Source Life? What happens when a bio-cracker unleashes a plant virus on all the wheat in North America, and the genetic code to "Wheat 2.0" is closed-source, patented code owned by a corporation? Should life be Open Source? Posted by Jimmy Rock to downloadaborted.blogspot.com Thanks to Slashdot 2:13:55 AM    comment []

Erotica LA (June 18-20) Xeni's tech report from "Erotica LA" adult trade show. The editor of Fleshbot dragged me to the Erotica Los Angeles convention this weekend to see if any geek news was hiding beneath the piles of neoprene genitalia and Paris Hilton DVDs. I met v14gr*a-spammers and gubernatorial porn stars. Took a bunch of snapshots, spotted a herd of Realdolls (shown at left) -- and I filed this report for Fleshbot. Link to full-size image at left. I'll be posting more snapshots from "the other Hollywood" soon. [Boing Boing] 1:25:59 AM    comment []

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