Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #138

The very best

About video visual literacy: Selfies and Beyond: Exploring Networked Identities

About digital media warping our subjective sense of time and thrown us into a state of atemporal confusion. Super long but super interesting post by Aaron Lewis.

About the last known transmission from the first solarnaut, Riley Campbell. Suspected dead from incineration during the 14th pass at the Sun, June 27th A.D. 2020. Very poetic!

About architecting virtual reality spaces. By architects C. Fredrik V. Hellberg (Space Popular), Andreea Ion Cojocaru (NUMENA), joined by Voices of VR host Kent Bye. A real delicacy.

About "particles and bonds" instead of "pages and links". Super reflection by Alexis Lloyd (ex NYT Labs)

A business model that seemed marginal before the coronavirus pandemic now looks like the future of restaurants.

Last summer, in the early days of a heat wave that would culminate in the highest temperatures ever recorded in Paris, I biked across…

The six designers and writers participating in FA’s project for Venice Biennale 2021 speak with one composite voice about nature, humanity, and stor...

Data and Society

Where human empathy and intelligence meet digital technology to bring you closer to the people who matter.

The data start-up, which has a valuation of $20 billion, would be the largest Silicon Valley tech listing since Uber made its debut last year.

Zeitgeist

Contagion and distributed connectivity are disrupting time. "Zeit"-geist, literally!

Entire teams of people spend their days imagining what might happen in a crisis to ensure we can be better prepared for when the worst really does happen.

Innovation

Thinking about Assemblage versus Systems Thinking, and why it helps you to focus on playing the hand you're dealt.

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Future of work

Workers may be more affected by robots taking their bosses’ jobs than their own

This article summarizes one of the findings of the Business in the Time of Coronavirus study…so why does it feature a video of a turbulent stream? For the last two months, I’ve been conducting…

Internet Culture

The following has long struck me as obvious, but it occurred to me yesterday that it might not be. So I share it herein. We are aware of the phenomenon called “Metcalfe’s Law.” Roughly that the value…

Voici un petit film tourné en 1947, qui nous dévoile une chose de tous les jours dont ils étaient loin de se douter que cela prendrait une telle ampleur

Holding forth on stuff since 1998

Voici un petit film tourné en 1947. Ces archives nous présentait les bienfaits de la télévision avec une pointe de clairvoyance

FinTech

At least 45 crypto and blockchain startups, ranging from Bittrex to the Electric Coin Company, received Paycheck Protection Program loans, new filings show.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

We propose an algorithm for fully automatic neural face swapping in images and videos. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method capable of rend...

Digital Ethics

This XR Ethical Manifesto was presented by Kent Bye at Greenlight's XR Strategy Conference on Friday, October 18, 2019 in San Francisco, CA. The XR industry ...

Screens live a double life. They serve us dense information in bright colors, only to transform back into black mirrors. We have gotten used to it, but it doesn’t have to be this way. As more and…

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Post Capitalism

Weird (Cyber)Space

We often design fictions as a way to come to terms with conditions that reality struggles to grasp. Where stories of imagined lands, help us to visualise alt...

David Lynch Theater Teaser - SUBSCRIBE!!! SHORT FILMS, WORKS, AND SURPRISES FROM FILMMAKER DAVID LYNCH - INCLUDING HIS DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Online events and meetings done well

This is "IEEEVR Ethics & Privacy in MR Panel" by Mozilla Mixed Reality on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Normally at this time of year, I’d be winding down for a summer break after an admittedly brutal 3 months on the road speaking at conferences and events all around the world. In 2019 that meant 33…

Art related

An architectural marvel has sat incomplete in a residential corner of Barcelona since its architect, Antoni Gaudí, died during construction in 1926. For deca...

Art & Flatnixing #37 by Hans Theys about some architectural and urbanistic projects by Luc Deleu and T.O.P. office, focusing on the drawing of 'Darling…

'Pie Jesu' intimate choreography by by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui > Flanders culture at its very best

Aesthetics

Anthropology Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 Art, Film and Visual Studies Harvard University Ca...

For years, the film festival circuit has been an opportunity for immersive artists to experiment and explore the storytelling potential of emerging technology devices, haptic devices, bone conduction…

Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.

The Spring-Summer 2021 collection created by Véronique Nichanian is presented in an unprecedented performance designed with the artistic collaboration of Cyril Teste. Expressing lightness, simplicity and nonchalance, its clean silhouettes create a timelessly casual look.

Eefje De Visser - Bitterzoet - Video Credits Directed by Tobi Jonson DOP: Sander Vandenbroucke Underwater Camera: Pieter Van Campe Production: Humans / De Me...

Music/Sound

Official music video for "People" from GLASYS' debut album "Defective Humanity". Video by my friend Amber Case

What can I say? The master at work

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