Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #146

The very best

Fantastic reflection by Dan Hill and his collective on the European Commission's suggestion to build a New Bauhaus.

Inspired by Marcel Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu", the designer Anthony Guerrée creates furniture

There is nothing wrong with utopian dreams, on the contrary.

Doing something to reduce or eliminate the production and amplification of prejudices is damn near impossible when the mechanisms behind it are obscure by design. By @dsearls

Psychology and philosophy are the undiscovered continents of the future of what we think is a computer. 

Worldbuilding as a visionary, collaborative practice has come of age.

Data and Society

The highly anticipated new work from journalist and Bafta award-winning filmmaker, Adam Curtis will premiere exclusively on BBC iPlayer on 11 February 2021.T...

Generative identity allows us to live digital lives with dignity and effectiveness, contemplates and addresses the problems of social inclusion, and supports economic equality to everyone around the globe. This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties.

Zeitgeist

Understanding what is driving new variants of the coronavirus to appear and what the changes mean will be crucial in our arms race against Covid-19.

Large Covid-19 vaccination programs are transforming football stadiums, parking lots and even art museums. But building the infrastructure of inoculation can get complicated. 

For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. Nicholson Baker examines the evidence that the COVID-19 coronavirus escaped from a lab.

Innovation

THE 8TH CONTINENT"Architecture and Innovation for the Sea"2020 Grand PrixAuthor: Lenka PetrakovaCountry: SlovaquiaThe floating Station is cleaning the ocean ...

In this uniquely severe global crisis, leaders need new operating models to respond quickly to the rapidly shifting environment and sustain their organizations through the trials ahead.

Some estimates say the online shopping giant could overtake FedEx and UPS by 2022.

Future of work

An interactive, browser-based experience that simulates a job interview with an Artificial Intelligence HR Manager in a future of gamified work and total surveillance. The entire experience is 12 minutes.

How should free agents manage their psyches in an increasingly weird world?

Internet Culture

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Is this a VC bubble, or just the new normal? by Tomio GeronThere's either way too much money pouring into startups, or this is the most exciting time ever. Or both, maybe? Tomio discovered a VC industry that's working faster, harder and with more FOMO than ever — and that, at least for now, keeps be...

FinTech

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies are starting out the new year with disruptions to the auto and financial services industries.

The retail giant interacts with millions of customers, including some who don't have a relationship with a bank or a financial advisor.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As with evolution, mindless learning drives intelligent machines.

Starship, a US/Estonian company which provides delivery via small self-driving robots on sidewalks, announced today it has completed over one million robotic deliveries to paying customers, a milestone unmatched by any other company and which places them only behind Waymo in robotic transport.

This is just a fun experiment, please listen to some real Beatles songs on the streaming service of your choice, or even better - buy one of their albums.Mus...

Digital Ethics

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Masks/Defence/Hiding

The easiest way to break free of simulation is to recognize the charade and stop following the rules of the game. No, cheating doesn’t count. Illegal insider trades and performance-enhancing drugs…

Post Capitalism

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Weird (Cyber)Space

A small community in the woods experiences a flooding. The people of the city recite a poem, admitting to their doubts. A meandering film about identity and uncertainty…

Compressed Cinema

The new Penn Station hub is currently inhabited by the poetically glitched future customers of its food court.

Authors including Nnedi Okorafor, Kim Stanley Robinson and Alastair Reynolds reveal what does, and doesn’t, go into creating their worlds

Online events and meetings done well

The immersive exhibition populating London with surreal digital sculptures by Olafur Eliasson, KAWS, Cao Fei and more

Art related

Ten major new photographic projects, directly influenced by treasures in the V&A's vast collection, sit centre stage in a series of immersive, fantastical wo...

Since 2019, Lucienne Rickard has been drawing detailed sketches of lost species in a Hobart gallery. On Sunday she erased the final one

We admire Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring for many reasons, not least that it looks exactly like a girl with a pearl earring. Open Culture, openculture.com

Friends from Academy

The academy of Fine Art is going to the MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival 2021 with a Belgian Programme. One of the Films that will be projected is a Stud...

A Small Experimental Animation film made almost 7 years ago at the Academy of Visuals Arts of Gent. I did find it back while making a student film compilatio...

Aesthetics

Director, writer, animator: Soetkin Verstegen Sound: Andrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok With the support of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany Saari Residency -…

Italy’s Superstudio collective warned against rampant development by imagining one continuous structure stretching around Earth. But did their warning actually inspire new Saudi plans for a 100-mile linear city?

David Lynch is known for being persnickety about delivering the correct viewing experience to his audience, as he considers the cinema a sacred place. In a documentary short a few years back, he explained, “It’s so magical, I don’t know why, to go into a theater and have the lights go down. Open Culture, openculture.com

To Hegen, aerial photography is the only possible medium that can simultaneously portray our civilization and pay tribute to our planet. From this vertical v...

Music/Sound

Directed by Matthias Brown https://www.traceloops.comFetch the Bolt Cutters available at: https://FionaApple.lnk.to/FetchTheBoltCuttersListen to Fiona Apple:...

The Sound of a Pandemic! Don't worry, Maria and the Von Trapplings know how to deal with it!Lyrics below. ***Have you seen the follow-up videos yet? 40+ song...

Often referred to as the most accomplished female drummer, Viola Smith has always been sensational to watch — both in 1939, when this performance took place,...

2020 saw almost 3 million views of the Sunday Lunch escapades, here is a quick recap of some of the best bits, and some unseen footage!

For real nerds

Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database, I made a Markov Chain write AC/DC lyrics. This is the end result- "Great Balls". Thanks to the geniuse...

Today's Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2020) vs real life comparison is a landing at Gatwick Airport in the UK. See how the flight simulator/ MSFS2020 uses bi...