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- Open Knowledge Festival – Helsinki, 18-22 September 2012
I’m at the OKFestival this week. Tons of inspiring talks. I’m writing this post incrementally cause I’ve got lots of notes floating around.. so sorry for the mess! I tried to build a panorama of the beautiful lecture hall (not that successfully.. but it’ll give you an idea): Day 1, keynote by Martin Tisne Martin […]
- Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems
In this post I’m just presenting an organized version of the notes I’ve taken after reading a beautiufl paper by Luc Steels, titled: “The Symbol Grounding Problem has been solved. So What’s Next?“. Who is Luc Steels? Steels is a Belgian scientist working in area of embodied cognition and robotics. The post is organized as […]
- Getting lost in the world of Laputa
I am certainly not an anime expert – but after being in Japan for a couple of months last year I started developing an appreciation for this form of art. In particular, I fell in love with the work of Studio Ghibli, the Tokyo-based animation film studio which includes award director Hayao Miyazaki. The other […]
- Workshop on Live Coding @ RMLL-11
I just got back from Strasbourg (France) where I gave a talk about my experience with Livecoding and Impromptu at the at the Cultures et Arts Libres Workshop, part of the 2011 Libre Software Meeting. In a nutshell, livecoding is the process of writing software in realtime, as a form of improvised time-based art. Many […]
- Livecoding in Paris & Strasbourg
Two livecoding concerts coming up in the next days: – 9/7/11: A gig in Paris at La Generale, “Laboratoire artistique, politique et social”. 14, avenue Parmentier Paris XIe, Métro Voltaire (facebook | lastfm) – 11/7/11: A workshop+gig at the 2011 Libre Software Meeting in Stransbourg (event page | facebook | lastfm). I’m going to play […]
- Bjork redefines the musician’s product with ‘Biophilia’ album/app
I found out here and there on the web that Islandic artist Bjork is once again pushing the boundaries of experimental music by relasing a new album, Biophilia, which will be composed by both music and interactive media, in the form of an iPad app: Biophilia for iPad will include around 10 separate apps, all […]
- Ether festival
I went to SouthBank for the Ether festival the other night, and caught two very inspiring performances by Anna Meredith and James Blake (among others). Anna Meredith Anna Meredith [homepage] is a composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. Her acoustic material has been performed around the world by many leading orchestras and […]
- A Space Odyssey Live with Philharmonia Orchestra
Went to the SouthBank Centre the other night, to see Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Live with Philharmonia Orchestra. Very very nice, almost moving even if I’ve seen the movie a dozen times already! Following a sell-out success in June 2010, Southbank Centre presents Stanley Kubrick’s seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey with live music. […]
- The Digital Story of Nativity and other inspiring stuff
The Digital Story of Nativity. This is quite amazing, make sure you go full screen! … Smories.com: original stories for kids, read by kids. It’s kind of cute for adults too btw.. … Visual art by Helmut Smits. After seeing the picture below I hurried to my desk looking for some mask tape! … Deviant […]
- Working toward meritocracy in Italy
It’s no news that thousands of italian researchers left their home-country in order to be able to carry on doing what they like; the news though is that now we’re got also a scientific study shedding some light on the phenomena. It’s been done by the Via Academy, an association dedicated to the creation of […]