July 2011
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“2011 INTO THE BLUE 1 – whole view of the installation. 2 – entrance view. INTO...”
– EXPO | MCAC 2011
Jul 16th
May 2011
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The SuperCollider Book: Amazon.co.uk: Scott... →
SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. The SuperCollider Book is the essential reference to this powerful and flexible language, offering students and professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and...
May 3rd
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April 2011
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“Binaural/Nodar hosts Artist Residency with University of Aveiro master’s...”
– Binaural/Nodar hosts Artist Residency with University of Aveiro master’s students : binauralmedia.org
Apr 6th
March 2011
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Dr. Sci-Psy: A Personal (and partial) List of... →
Astronomy http://fuckyeahnebulas.tumblr.com/ http://cosmosscience.tumblr.com/ http://galaxyshmalaxy.tumblr.com/ http://itsfullofstars.tumblr.com/ http://fuckyeahspace.tumblr.com/ http://uraniaproject.tumblr.com/ Biology …
Mar 2nd
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October 2010
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A concert of electro-acoustic music
On Friday evening (08.10.2010) we had the chance to experience the electro-acoustic music concert at the 12th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Audio Engineering ( www.aes.org) that took place to the Department of Communication and the Arts at Aveiro University organized by the Institute of Electronic Engineer and Telematics Aveiro ( IEETA ).   ...
Oct 9th
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Presentation of the project The Morning Line by...
project link : http://www.matthewritchie.com/morningline/flash.php   A groundbreaking experimental project conceived by artist Matthew Ritchie, The Morning Line is a fresh new take on the concept of the architectural pavilion, offering a platform for musicians and artists whose work lies beyond normal artistic boundaries and the programming of traditional concert halls. Commissioned by...
Oct 9th
COMPANHIA DE DANÇA DE AVEIRO :: CDA :::... →
Oct 2nd
Oct 2nd
August 2010
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TRAILER Arduino: The Documentary  →
arduinomania! ποιός το φανταζόταν;
Aug 2nd
July 2010
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Superflow - Bachelor Thesis - Volume 01 (by Ian Clemmer) Aris Bezas Mon, 19 July 2010, 08:48AM
Jul 19th
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Barcelona-based trio, Physalia, was recently given the opportunity to create the opening titles for MADinSpain 2010 (MAD MXX). Aris Bezas Thu, 08 July 2010, 01:16PM
Jul 8th
Sun Boxes →
Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit at will. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently, each powered by the sun via solar panels. There is a different loop set to play a guitar note in each box continuously. These guitar notes collectively make a Bb chord. Because the loops are different in length, once the piece begins they continually overlap and the piece slowly...
Jul 5th
Augmented Sculpture by Pablo Valbuena at Sala... →
Augmented Sculpture es una instalación que reflexiona sobre la cualidad temporal del espacio y su constante transformación. En esta escultura aumentada informáticamente Pablo Valbuena plantea dos niveles que exploran diferentes aspectos de la realidad espacio-temporal. El primer nivel consiste en un volumen físico que controla el espacio real y sirve de soporte para el segundo nivel, que consiste...
Jul 1st
Modern Living / Neurotica series →
In Modem Living, Hoogerbrugge tackles the small matters of everyday life; those almost insignificant battles, fears and tragedies that become the major issues of the intimate development of our personal life. Headaches, workaholics, social impositions and nerves and desolation upon contemplating one’s self in the mirror, are some of the subjects Hoogerbrugge summarises in his agile short films. ...
Jul 1st
Digital You (2005) | greyworld →
two interactive installations to act as the centrepiece for an exhibition at the Science Museum in London that explored the current debate around the importance and fragility of our digital identities vicky bizbiki   Jul 1st, 2010 10:58am
Jul 1st
June 2010
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Site personnel de Roland Cahen →
Compositeur électroacoustique,               designer sonore               enseignant à l’Ensci Les Ateliers Aris Bezas Mon, 21 June 2010, 12:53PM
Jun 21st
YouTube - Rare Philip K Dick interview →
An icon of Science Fiction Also see following documentaries: Documentary mainly narrated by his relatives:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtlYFYl3oI&feature=related BBC documentary “Arena” with interviews of his relatives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJehaCfnXHE&feature=related French documentary with many pictures and some recordings of his interviews: ...
Jun 14th
OpenCog: A Software Framework for Integrative AGI.... →
OpenCog: A Software Framework for Integrative AGI Video of Ben Goertzel’s talk at Google IZ June 13, 2010 7:29 PM
Jun 13th
Humanity+ / Second-order cybernetics and human... →
What does second-order cybernetics have to do with human enhancement? Transcript of talk by Humanity+ Board Member Natasha Vita-More at the H+ Summit @ Harvard. IZ June 13, 2010 7:21 PM
Jun 13th
Porting Digital Memory | h+ Magazine →
Engaging post about current technology for communicating “directly” with the human brain.  IZ June 13, 2010 5:48 PM
Jun 13th
Ben Goertzel, PhD: Artificial General Intelligence... →
Also speaker at Humanity Plus conference at Harvard, 2010.  IZ June 13, 2010 5:26 PM. 
Jun 13th
Citizens' "High Science": 2010 H+ Summit @ Harvard... →
Addictive talks of science, on video. Right now: Steven Wolfram.  IZ 100613 // 1:42 PM EEST
Jun 13th
Semiotics: A scholar's online overview →
An excellent overview on semiotics in various fields IZ June 12, 2010
Jun 12th
Logos foundation: Flanders sound art, Robot... →
A very active place in Sound Art. Many interesting experiments here. See their projects: http://logosfoundation.org/projects.html And “Logos M&M” http://logosfoundation.org/mnm/index.php (“The world’s largest robot orchestra”) IZ June 12, 2010
Jun 12th
Research Center on Acoustic Space and Urban... →
IZ 100607
Jun 7th
"I am sitting in a video room" - YouTube video... →
A variation of the piece by Alvin Lucier: “I am sitting in a room”, made by repeatedly downloading and re-uploading copies of a single video on YouTube.  IZ 100605
Jun 5th
Watching JoAnne watch some guy watching Andy... →
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Jun 5th
250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities |... →
Aris Bezas Tue, 01 June 2010, 09:11AM
Jun 1st
May 2010
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International Symposium on Electronic Art Germany... →
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is a main yearly event on electronic art. IZ May 22, 2010
May 22nd
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(via interazioneinnaturale) Aris Bezas Mon, 17 May 2010, 10:40AM
May 17th
LA76 blog » BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE – Shanghai... →
Aris Bezas Thu, 13 May 2010, 12:28PM
May 13th
Sound and Video Installation: Existence as a state... →
Example of a PhD Dissertation in Media Arts.  From Melbourne, Australia.  IZ Wed, May 12 ‘10, 11:35 AM
May 12th
April 2010
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Beauty in Code - that sings →
no comment … IZ Sat, April 24 ‘10, 11:47 AM
Apr 24th
MutantSounds →
Music, code and musings by Jason Dixon. Cygnus Thu, 22 April 2010, 18:05PM
Apr 22nd
Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you |... →
Golan Levin’s talk at TED. “Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools — robotics, new software, cognitive research — to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.” VB 2010 4 22
Apr 21st
Simple example of a genetic algorithm →
Youtube video of “line segment creatures” striving to reach a point on the screen using a genetic algorithm.  IZ Tue, April 13 ‘10, 02:35 PM
Apr 13th
visualising communal software development + Eben... →
This YouTube video was made with Gource, a Software Version Control Visualisation Tool and shows the growth of some significant software projects such as Git, Ruby on Rails and Linux. Eben Moglen gave a speech on “Software  and Community in the Early 21st Century” at the 2006 Plone conference, that I keep returning to as one of the deepest and most eloquent arguments on the topic. All...
Apr 13th
Annotated Bibliography of Mind-Related Topics →
By Piero Scaruffi. One of the books reviewed is Julian Jaynes’ “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”.  Quoted here from Roger Malina’s post on Yasmin. IZ Sun, April 4 ‘10, 07:18 PM
Apr 4th
Rhizome | Frameworks, Crowdfunding, Cassandra and... →
An interesting meeting, reblogged from Aris Bezas’s google feed.  IZ Thu, April 1 ‘10, 04:00 PM
Apr 1st
March 2010
8 posts
History: First announcement of SuperCollider... →
This is the original announcement of the first release of SuperCollider by James McCartney, in 1996. It turned up in the archives of comp.music.research, and I thought it worth to re-post it here for history’s sake.  IZ Fri, March 26 ‘10, 11:55 PM James McCartney  View profile   (1 user)  More options Mar 21 1996, 10:00 am SuperCollider, a real time synthesis language for...
Mar 26th
Bibliography on Gestural Interaction in Music and... →
An extensive publications list with many downloadable pdf’s from the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) of McGill University, Montreal.  IZ Thu, March 25 ‘10, 01:43 PM
Mar 25th
an interesting bibliography from interdisciplines →
Contains references related to topics such as history of art, art theory, music, cognition and creation, virtual reality etc.  IZ Wed, March 24 ‘10, 04:24 PM
Mar 24th
Laeterna Machina - Digital Dance Collective →
From the home page:  “What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion ? Can the body function as a visual instrument ?” Longer video shown by Marianna Strapatsaki at course “From Sound to Image”.  IZ Tue, March 23 ‘10, 02:03 PM
Mar 23rd
Harmony - Procedural drawing tool →
“It’s impossible to do an ugly drawing with ” harmony.  Reblogged from http://twitter.com/yaxu IZ Mon, March 15 ‘10, 05:35 PM
Mar 15th
Instruction set: A site for code art projects →
Minimal instructions, several code examples on Processing PD, Matlab … Reblogged from a tweet by Batuhan Bozkurt @ earlsap: http://twitter.com/earslap 
Mar 15th
Animations with CSS+Javascript (but without Flash) →
Javascript and CSS are more widely supported by browsers than Flash, and don’t require using a Flash editor. Here is a video by a guru of this technique, Thomas Fuchs.  IZ Mon, March 15 ‘10, 08:20 AM
Mar 15th
Espacio Dos / Χωρος Δυο →
περι Espacio Dos / Χωρος Δυο Ρευστό Σώμα Μάρτιος 2010 Το EspacioDos / ΧωροςΔυο είναι ένα project που παρουσιάζεται το Μαρτιο του 2010 από την ομάδα NoMeOlvides.Co & Friends και αποτελεί συνέχεια των εκδηλώσεων του EspacioCero / ΧωροςΜηδεν και του EspacioUno / ΧωροςΕνα, που πραγματοποιήθηκαν αντίστοιχα το 2008 και το 2009 στο Studio Κοιτώνες του πρώην Στρατοπέδου Κόδρα. Η ομάδα NoMeOlvides.Co /...
Mar 9th
February 2010
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Math and stuff Lastforever Divineslime Proof math is beautiful Science is beauty 1000 reasons not to start making art Aris Bezas Sun, 28 February 2010, 10:15
Feb 28th
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Feb 26th
John R. Searle: The rediscovery of the mind (Book,... →
Summary: In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in the...
Feb 21st