Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #148

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Welcome to Witness - an open-source fictional world.

Rem Koolhaas' kick-off event on this year's virtual DLD. Why the countryside is the future, not cities.

There is no Planet-B. Why go to Mars if we can't solve problems at home?

The more we can google, the less we know

About icons, indices, and symbols leading to symbolic emergence in Artificial Intelligence and DeepMind

The plates of culture are grinding and shifting beneath our feet. Forces are at work in the land. Fissures are opening. The fractal consequences bloom. All that is solid melts into air. Never did splendid isolation look so untenable.

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Part of the Great Weirding essay collection

The lifelong learning initiative to bring together a network of specialists, advisors and communities of practice to reimagine the ways we understand and shape the mental, social and environmental impacts of the digital economy, transforming the internet(s) into sustainable networks of knowledge, solidarity and care.

This short film uses the story of Richard Nixon’s paranoia to explore how a similar outlook has been perpetuated on the larger social scale by the new media ...

Data and Society

– How Self-sovereign Identity Brings Personal Data Back Under the Control of the User –   Remember the last time you had to apply for something at the Department of Motor Vehicles or any

This week we decided to deploy Elemental Chat, the first Holochain app to be pushed out to all HoloPorts. This is an exciting week for us, and we hope you, our patient HoloPort owners, have fun with…

Zeitgeist

The billionaire philanthropist’s Breakthrough Energy hopes to nurture innovation at every step of the process—from basic science to selling at scale.

Each market frenzy seems crazier than the last. But all have the same roots.

Innovation

Summary and commentary on The Cult Of Smart by Fredrik DeBoer

Over the course of the fall and winter, I was privileged to sit for a number of interviews and podcasts in support of the launch of our book How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of…

Future of work

Amid the pandemic that started almost a year ago, online platforms enabling virtual meetings skyrocketed in use and popularity. One of the most well-known and widely used is Zoom. The…

With the tag line “here can be anywhere,” the mixed reality platform promises to make remote interactions feel more lifelike than they ever have.

Internet Culture

2020 was a big year for the internet. As Covid-19 spread worldwide and many countries descended into monthslong lockdowns, much of daily life moved online. Racial justice, mass surveillance, and…

Aesthetics Wiki is the internet’s one-stop shop for figuring out whether your vibe is more “cactuscore” or “synthwave” or “pastel goth.”

About re-invigorating the analog

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FinTech

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Revolut, the global financial platform with more than 15 million customers worldwide, has operationalised its European specialised banking licence in 10 European markets.

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On the heels of reports that Stripe was raising yet more money, the payments giant has now confirmed the details. The company has closed in on another $600 million, at a valuation of $95 billion. Stripe said it will use the funding to expand its business in Europe, with a focus on its European HQ, […]

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The Digital Service Academy would compete with Stanford and MIT.

instrument of mass destruction. (complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism)

How virtual artworks allow you to see anything from the sun to a giant spider in your own home.

Digital Ethics

The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December; both had called for more diversity among research staff

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Excerpt from "Beyond Noh" an animated film that rhythmically animates thousands of individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive m...

Post Capitalism

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

Weird (Cyber)Space

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Bim Bam Jam! De beiaard van Aalst speelt nummer 1 van de allereerste Top 053 vanuit het Belfort op de Grote Markt van Aalst! Dit is "Pump Up The Jam" Van…

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Online events and meetings done well

Zenko Mapping is a tool which helps you collaborate with others inside and outside of your organisation, or make great decisions on where to go next. It makes your strategy and tactics visible.

Art related

A painting of the utmost importance by Antwerp Baroque Master Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678) has come to light at the Saint-Gillis City Hall in Brussels. This ...

KolorTrax is a psychedelic, retro color tracking application written in Processing. This was my final project for my first term, combining all three of my cl...

This illustrated podcast shows images of the exhibition 'Engelenkeel' by Berlinde De Bruyckere at Museum Bonnefanten in Maastricht (The Netherlands), filmed…

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Listen to Japanese salt artist Motoi Yamamoto's story as he carves an intricate, two-dimensional sculpture of our earth in salt.Motoi's installations takes d...

Refik Anadol showed the museum and gallery world what a machine thinking looks like. Now he’s set his sights on the NFT world.

Sloppy Forgeries is a fast-paced, two-player local multiplayer painting game. Each player is given a mouse, a blank canvas, and a few simple paint tools. Eac...

PHI — a Montréal-based organization consisting of three separate but complementary entities, the PHI Centre, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art and the PHI Studio — is guest editing the 37th…

Friends from Academy

After breaking out of the earths orbit in 1999, Moonbase Alpha drifted in deep space for many many years, finally establishing a new orbit around a planet th...

Compi Matter Try Out - sound, video & edit: Patrick Baele.

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

Aesthetics

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These strange solids roll in interesting and unexpected ways! Join me as we explore these curious geometries the Wobbler, Oloid and Steinmetz Solid.3D Print ...

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Director @caspersejersenstudioOriginal soundtrack “Angel” by @massiveattackofficialStyling @nancy_rohdeMake up @ingegrognard @FlorenceteerlinckHair @sammckni...

http://www.vernissage.tv | The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip...

Iris van Herpen shows her latest collection ‘Roots of Rebirth’ during Paris Haute Couture Week on January 25th 2021. ~During such rarefied times, the designe...

Go behind the scenes with artist Carol Bove, who discusses the inspiration and making of The séances aren't helping, The Met's 2021 facade commission, on vie...

Music/Sound

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Excerpts from concerts in the UK and Germany. Musicians: Philip Clemo (soundscapes, guitar. theremin, keys, vocals) Evi Vine (vocals) Arve Henriksen (trumpet)…

Italy’s top jazz pianist and one of Belgium’s leading trumpeters have nothing to prove on this effortlessly breezy set of originals

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.

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