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Viral Infection, information shaping organic production

Viral Infection is an installation by Johannes Kiel. It uses machine nests to produce the PLA bioplastic they are made of and ...
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Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis, actively experiencing marine biophony

Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
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edited by Kyle Booten & Katy Ilonka Gero – Ensemble Park (A Journal of Human+Computer Writing)

ensemblepark.com, journal, No. 1, Early Fall 2024, English, 92 pages, USA With the resurgence of digital literature, possibly fostered by the paradigmatic omnipresence of language models used by AI, ...
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The Closed World, the machine taking over

Telescopes have historically been the first substantial ‘augmentation’ of our eyesight. The technical properties of focus and magnification of optics have exponentially extended our vision of far-away ...
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Alva Noto – Hybr:id III

CD – Noton ‘There is no defense, opposition, or rejection to the hubris of the hybrid form’. This was a comment from our review of the previous release in this series, which began in 2021 and propels ...
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Seth Giddings – Toy Theory, Technology and Imagination in Play

The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262548212, English, 286 pages, 2024, USA In the general complexity of the world of relational information in which we live, there are various aspects related to play and toys ...
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(edited by) Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel – Critical Zones, The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262044455, English, 472 pages, 2020, USA Critical Zones is a major exhibition at ZKM, providing a comprehensive look at climate change topics through a vast range of ...
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A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine, electrochemical performance

Gordon Pask was a cyberneticist in the 1950s who experimented with electrochemical systems that exhibited elementary forms of learning. Ralf Baecker has investigated these systems and built a ...
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Neural 76, What is real?

Issue #76 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X The new Neural issue is hot from the press. Subscribe now! Indeed, only subscribers will get a free extra: a Destructive Circuits by Dani Ploeger, an envelope of hacked ...
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet

Verso, ISBN 978-1839764554, English, 236 pages, 2023, UK There is an economic model that we see as irreversible, celebrated above all by American corporations: the ‘single-entrepreneur heroism’ with a ...
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Neural 75, Artificial Corporeality

Issue #75 2024 ISSN: 2037-108X The new Neural issue (co-edited with Zane Cerpina) is hot from the press. Subscribe now! Indeed, only subscribers will get a free extra: a postcard pointing to an AR ...