Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #137

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Dries Van Noten and Monsieur Christian Lacroix Women Spring Summer 2020 Fashion show Paris, September 25, 2019 French subtitles. Almost everything Dries does waters my eyes. Also this one. Grace, beauty, elegance,....

About Co-Immunism. German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk speaks with Noema's editor-in-chief, Nathan Gardels.

About a spacial analysis as a tool for social political purposes. Massive piece of very aesthetically work by Louise Drulhe

About the ebb and flow of disorder. By Alex Danco

A year after opening the Shed, Elizabeth Diller is trying to adjust to a world in which she and colleagues can no longer kick around ideas in person.

With the coronavirus lockdown, more and more people have found themselves turning to online content for entertainment, learning, and simply as a way to maintain their sanity in the face of social…

Obviously we’re going to talk about this today: Ok, so. Up until this year, I would’ve told you that there are two general kinds of financial bubbles.  The first kind of bubble is where everyone believes the future will be like the present. Think credit bubbles and real estate; think 2007-2008, where the fundamental belief…

Data and Society

Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website's homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.

The Trump administration has sent letters to social media companies requesting they take action on posts calling for people to take down statues and commit acts of violence. The letters come after weeks of protests against police brutality and racism in the US following George Floyd’s death at the end of May.

Zeitgeist

SIX ERRORS: 1) missing the compounding effects of masks, 2) missing the nonlinearity of the probability of infection to viral exposures, 3) missing absence of evidence (of benefits of mask wearing)…

As countries around the world begin to relax lockdown measures, cases in some places are creeping up

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Innovation

priestmangoode is working on 'spaceship neptune', a high-performance balloon and pressurized capsule capable of flying passengers to the edge of space.

Future of work

How can Human Resources lead change? Simple approaches informed by systems complexity, community engagement and digital networks help evolve the practice of Human Resources and dramatically increase its positive impact on collective performance. Celine Schillinger, Engagement Leadership expert. 30 years experience in corporations across 3 continents. Multi-awarded experience in people engagement

Internet Culture

Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google’s $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.

FinTech

Revolut has announced the introduction of fees for free account users. This will anger customers and is a perfect example of how to botch an opportunity.

On top of improving the efficiency, the team has tackled some of the potential side-channel attacks that a hacker could use to compromise the secure link.

TOKYO -- Global competition for supremacy in digital currencies has entered a new phase with China's creation of an East Asia cryptocurrency scheme an

Brazil’s Central Bank has suspended Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, the app’s second-biggest market with more than 120 million users.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Through finding the relationships and patterns between words in a giant dataset, the algorithm ultimately ends up learning from its own inferences.

Is there another path than accelerated Western modernization?

Digital Ethics

Physically interacting with interfaces in public places is slowly becoming unthinkable. No wonder in a situation of pandemic. In an attempt to rethink established interactions and to ease the post-lockdown experience, we have experimented with eye tracking technology.

In this short essay, I ask you to think differently about technology, employment, economics, and the future. It’s based on a book I want to write, but a large publisher said don’t bother because…

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Chapter 2 of the Clockless Clock

Weird (Cyber)Space

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station cools atoms down to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or the temperature at which atom...

This handbook presents the THEORY and PRACTICE of Anne Marleen’s work in Immersive Design XR at the Virtual / Augmented Reality Atelier at University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. Spatial layouts…

If you live in a large American city, you’ve probably heard a lot of fireworks during the past week or two, and you’ve possibly even poked around online to investigate why you’re hearing so many fireworks (Nextdoor users in my neighborhood have been particularly fixated on this topic, departing from their usual discussions of stray cat and possum sightings). After everything that’s happened this year, however, even I was surprised by the

Online events and meetings done well

In this totally redesigned virtual keynote I share 10 key foresights on our immediate, in/post-crisis future: BigTech, BigHealth ...BigState? I am streaming ...

Art related

If an aesthetic object is created without any human purpose, do we witness an accidental product of nature or do we perceive new forms of artificial intentions?…

Final Performances Copyright Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Suspending audiences between the tactile art world and the immateriality of the cosmos is one of Hennessy's most immersive artistic collaborations to date, H...

07.09.2018. (english text below). Premiere von "Half Life" in der Komischen Oper Berlin. Lest dazu auch unsere Kritik auf http://kultur24-berlin.de/celis-eya...

How do we come together if we can not meet eye to eye? We present a new technology to experience endless virtual spaces and social environments for humans to enjoy…

This is "The Nature Here is Buildings" by Clamber on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Friends from Academy

Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent - Digitale Beeldende Kunst 2020 - Deel 2. Compilatie by Patrick Baele

Self promotion department: experiment with spar trees through the front screen of (parked) car. Nothing happens. But still, a lot. 2 merged videos, one in reverse, all done with Videoleap

Aesthetics

the sleep institute project was designed by hamza shaikh for his final year project at the university of westminster in london.

The great (and problematic) surrealist Dalí said once: “The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most…

An interactive journey through the iconic and now-demolished Tsukiji market in Tokyo. With Cody Ellingham, Music by SJF.

By Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young, film director Tommy Pascal NDT is one of the dance companies making their work available online and The Statement was ava...

Video by Claudia Maté Mix by Dubmood 00:00 Dubmood - Rez Cracktro 4 (Balenciaga Edit) 02:45 Dubmood - Mi Anderoid (2015 Remix) 05:46 Dubmood - Silver Screen ...

The future begins in 2021. Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save huma...

Music/Sound

Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database, I made a Markov Chain write Nirvana lyrics. This is the end result- "Smother". All music/vocals perfor...

Please support our video productions: http://www.patreon.com/scifri Equipped with both the skills of a computer engineer and the artistry of an accomplished ...

A playlist featuring Daughters of Reykjavík, Romare, Billy Idol, and others. I suggest you play it with shuffle on for better serendipity experience

For real nerds

Escher was in the house

Other

The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.