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I've been thinking for years that traffic lights needed progress bars.

It's only a project, but look :



http://relogik.com/eko


I say YES !

(via http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/12/eko_a_traffic_light_with_progress_bars.html)

http://io9.com/5410037/ibm-recreate-cats-brain-inside-computer

Seeing as evil and manipulative cats can be, this is probably how Skynet started.

Je n'ai rien contre, mais depuis quand "Google" est féminin ?
http://www.datanews.be/fr/news/90-57-27105/google-va-t-elle-lancer-chrome-os-cette-semaine-.html

(c'est peut-être un accident de traduction à partir du nederlands :p)

It all went well, it was nice and people seemed interested (although they didn't all understand what it was all about - at first).

Auriea & Michael were there, which was great since Entropy8Zuper! were one of those net.art superheroes that got me curious about digital art ;)

Now let's hope that those 3 months of running The Gate will be alright. It won't be easy since the Internet connection there is kinda fragile, and the start up procedure for the whole thing is kinda complex :s

But let's cross fingers !

http://imal.org/TheGate

I received it by the mail (free shipping yay!) on Thursday, but I wasn't home, so I only installed it last night :D

I really didn't know what to except, beside its beauty.



but so far, although I haven't played much, it's great. Although it's pretty different from Pathologic, you can see a link between those.

You're dropped in a weird world, and try to figure out its rules and balances to .. well survive or something like that.



I love it. It's a pity that videogames seems to be soooo much more centred on modern warfare than imaginary worlds.



I love the Fireflies <3 :D



More later, I guess!
(beside that, I also have to try Overlord which is at 1.5€ on Steam :p)

13/11/2009 - 14/02/2010

Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium;
Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance, Second Life (Odyssey 123/37/25)



After its first showing in 2007 at iMAL (Brussels), The Gate is back at the Broelmuseum, Kortrijk (Belgium), as part of the Fantastic Illusions exhibition. This show explores how Belgian and Chinese artists build illusory spaces for the visitor. It features works of Nick Ervinck (BE), Hans Op de Beeck (BE), Tale of Tales (BE), Vadim Vosters (BE), Olivier Deprez (BE), Yves Bernard & Yannick Antoine (BE), Bart Stolle (BE), Heidi Voet (BE), CREW (BE), Teddy Lo (CN), Jenova Chen (CN), Aaajiao (CN), Wu Juehui (CN), Hu Jieming (CN), Peng Yun (CN).


The Gate is an installation connecting real life and Second Life. A junction point, a door between two worlds and two representation spaces. Or, basically, a simple window between both worlds where real users and SL users can see and meet each other.
A view of the SL Gate is permanently projected in the real life venue; when an avatar comes in front of The Gate, it is visible in the public space; when one arrives physically in front of the door in the public space, (s)he can interact with the SL user on the other side.

The result will be a kind of happening where the virtuality of SL is transferred in the physicality of our public space and vice-versa; a stage for performance and interaction, something between a break-dance platform, an inter-dimensional portal and a peep show through parallel universes.





Join us!

People, avatars and performance artists are kindly invited to come, perform and interact at The Gate, both in Real Life and in Second Life.


The Gate in Kortrijk!

Stedelijk Broelmuseum Kortrijk
Broelkaai, 6
8500 Kortrijk
BELGIQUE/BELGIUM

http://www.broelmuseum.be | http://www.budakortrijk.be
http://www.europalia.eu/programme/expositions/article/fantastic-illusions-266?lang=en



The Gate in Second Life

The Gate is installed on Odyssey, an island in Second Life dedicated to art and performance.

1. Create a free account on http://secondlife.com/join
2. Download the software on http://secondlife.com/download and follow the installation instructions.
3. Use this SLurl to teleport to Odyssey: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/123/37/25

The Gate is installed on the beach next to the teleport hub.

http://odysseyart.ning.com/

I love the Internet. And waxy.org specifically since it's where I found it all ;)

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth_Album

2) http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

3) http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/11/10/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer/


<3 alternate history
<3 the Beatles

(via RPS, another reason to love'em)

Choose your language:
- Apple
- French
- Dutch

Another weird choice from the self-proclaimed UI champions, if you ask me :p

It's all going well :)



We'll perform live tomorrow at 8:30pm (Brussels hour), and it should be broadcasted live on http://www.ustream.tv/malicy

All about it here : http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/emperors-castle.html

"A deviant cg character, defying any laws of character animation. Absolutely no keyframes were used to constrain the livelyhood of this polygon being."

More about it, with a link to an interview in German, ach.

via womanonfire

So obviously, Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about personal computers, and almost, to today's eyes, in favour of open standards ;)

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

We rarely get to read nerdcore poetry from a Famous Poet of the XXth Century, don't we ?

There's a very interesting read about Bukowski, Bourrough, litterature and computers here :
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/



For some reasons it reminds me of that "strange" video of Andy Warhol using an Amiga:



I think one (I) should investigate more about those Major Figures of the XXth Century who got in contact with the now omnipresent personal computer. Or how would those who never used it.. used it?
What would Rothko or Musset have done with a 16bit personal computer ?

I feel there's a gap to fill, especially in retrospect to the early age of computer graphics and/or the Internet.

Yes, but I can't help it. I love living in the future!

More digital/new media/interactive/code art* like this please !

^* or whatever it is... but more of that kind! It's fun, and I'll take a playful interactive thing anytime over any piece of "interactive art" that exploits cheap interactions and Jitter effects to "address the information overload of today's society" :p

Yeah it looks cool and all. Woah! Multitouch.

But...

It looks to me like a complicated solution addressing issues inherent to the OSX interface, which are: a funky looking but inefficient dock, and windows that don't maximize by default (thus tend to "pile up").

It doesn't even addresses them that well. Basically it seems to turn you opened windows into a large (MS Windows-like) taskbar. Except that it's huge and you'll have to scroll and pinch with your hands to find what's right under your eyes with the traditional taskbar.


The multitouch interface isn't a proper solution either. It's basically like a very large touchpad for desktop computers. It has to be large enough for all the fingers of a whole hand. It's almost like having 2 keyboards. With your wrists on the multitouch surface when you're typing, and the inability to easily use the keyboard and the multitouch surface at the same time.
It doesn't sound to me like such a proper replacement for the cheap, small and handy ubiquitous mouse...

One thing they got right, though, is that a multitouch interface (that can be of some use, just not *that one*) doesn't indeed have to be a multitouch screen, and having to look down or touch straight aren't good solutions on the long term.

The fleshy thing grows according to the CPU activity.


By Mio I-zawa, most likely inspired by David Cronenberg, and via Pink Tentacle, of course.

I just love it when fictional things step into our reality ;)

I don't know... Part "wedding DJ en Français", part "IDM workshop for kids".
Kinda fun, but nothing mind blowing musically.

And Jon Hopkins was as dull as IDM could be.


To think that I missed Plaid + Dani Siciliano + Mara Carlyle on the same night :[

But welllll... it was free :P


On a side note, I think I saw Michael Lonsdale in the metro in Paris :D