Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #149

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About Keller Easterling's new book "Medium Design", a fascinating read about designing for complexity, interfacing, and dispositions.

About normal and not-normal, and why it matters, or not... Psychiatrist and Professor Dirk De Wachter is inspired by the great Julien Schoenaerts.

It shows how normality and insanity, and how psychological vulnerability and artistic talent are bound up together. How there is no difference between normal and non-normal

About six ways future objects can be simpler and more elegant than a Gizmo and more valued and trusted than a Spime. Great post by Christopher Butler

VR training app for B. Braun Group, we aimed to give the player the feeling that they are part of a larger simulation. The many interactions happen inside a virtual hospital that mimics the logic of a real surgical ward and that users can explore freely. By the great Andreea Ion Cojocaru @andreeavr

Most people believe they have a "true self" deep down that is fundamentally morally good. They don't, but the belief affects the way everyone behaves and sees the world.

Technology trends that will impact our lives in 2021. Tech trends will dominate 2021. The most important tech trends of 2021.

Editor’s Note: As a designer and leading expert on privacy, security and systems change, Sarah Gold, founder and CEO of IF, strives to create interventions that show how technology can respect more…

Charles Steinmitz, a prolific inventor and mathmatician, made this prediction in 1921 in a newspaper article predicting the world of 2021. Despite the destruction of a world war, followed by nearly…

Each human brain possesses a unique, intricate pattern of 86 billion neurons. If science can map it, immortality beckons

My notebooks are filled with doodles and schematics that reflect systemic preoccupations. Drafts for causal loop diagrams eddy across the pages. In addition there are plenty of visual references to…

Data and Society

Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.

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We are bringing together many different types of people who all have an interest/stake in biometric technology. These are technologies that measure the human body and my colleagues have written great…

Zeitgeist

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues faced by people and governments across the globe. Does it have the potential to alter the political order o...

Innovation

A Shared Future is a potential reality born from the bold vision and dedicated stewardship of future architects seeking long-view and transformational impact.

julian.digital weblog

Futurists from the 20th century predicted that labor saving devices would make leisure abundant. According to the great economist John Maynard Keynes, the big challenge would be that… Rather than…

A ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. From food delivery to outdoor travel, the Marketplace 100 reflects the imprint of a year like no other.

Future of work

Slack and Zoom Were Distracting Our Teams. Here’s How We Regained Focus. This PR company took a deep dive into what was knocking some employees off their game and came up with new rules to govern its….

Philippe Vandenbroeck

Internet Culture

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Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the internet is getting more spontaneous. Posting, liking, commenting and messaging are all slowly morphing into hanging out online. This is changing how we connect with others. Instead of listening to a podcast, listen in or get invited on stage in a Clubhouse room.

FinTech

The a16z NFT Canon is a curated list of readings and resources on all things NFTs, organized from the big picture, what NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are and why they matter... to how to mint, collect, and do more with them -- including how they play into various applications such as art, music, gaming, social tokens, more.

Elon Musk’s tweets on cyrptocurrencies reach an immediate audience of 44.8 million followers and invariably trigger violent price swings in the likes of Bitcoin and Dogecoin. The Bank for International Settlements’ virtual conference on CBDC and finance in the digital age attracted a somewhat smaller crowd and triggered no such price gyrations. But if you had to bet on which of the two tell us more about the future of money – Elon’s tweets or the central bankers’ deliberations – which would you

The European Central Bank could decide by April whether to push ahead with planning for a digital euro, a move closely watched by banking and tech sectors.

As the world wide web soared in the 1990s, many of the systems envisioned by its early architects saw rapid development. But micropayments, which had once been described as an essential nutrient for…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

A new shared pool with over 100,000 simulation scenarios for testing self-driving cars could speed up testing and certification. Teams that build scenarios and contribute theirs in and get back more in return from other teams, to make everybody safer.

How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.

Thanks to a close look at wings in nature, the BionicSwifts are agile, nimble and can even fly loops and tight turns. The five artificial swallows can move i...

Digital Ethics

The transhumanist movement is less a theory about the advancement of humanity than a simple evacuation plan. Techno-utopians like to think of themselves as orchestrating a complete break from…

In particular the way he describes how we become “lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms” manages to always viscerally snag the fragile fabric of my reality, like the prickly side of a velcro strip…

I’m trying to explain to Arthur I. Miller why artworks generated by computers don’t quite do it for me. There’s no human being…

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The pathbreaking MIT professor on her new memoir, and the past, present, and future of our efforts to make technology feel human.

Masks/Defence/Hiding

MetaHuman Creator is a tool for creating photorealistic digital humans that are rigged and ready to animate in Unreal Engine.

With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience

Post Capitalism

Luxurious, high-quality, handcrafted design, built to last, and made to be made again — created using scrap from your local landfill. Doesn’t exactly sound like your traditional premium-product…

Weird (Cyber)Space

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Filmmaker and choreographer Wilkie Branson reveals how his innovative and poetic film TOM was created - a project which took over three years to realise.

Art related

On 25 March 2021, the time had come: The new visitor center in Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral opened its doors.The Ghent Altarpiece was given a magnificent new place...

The Axel Vervoordt team guides you through the group exhibition Silence & Space, on view until May 29, 2021 at Axel Vervoordt Gallery's Henro/Ma-Ka space at ...

The chrome escalators, neon strip lights, and dramatic walkways of Stockholm’s metro system have been described as “the longest art gallery in the world.” It...

Last days of the ‘Lynne Cohen - Depth on the Surface’ exhibition at FOMU.

This is "Hadassah Emmerich.mp4" by Whitehouse Gallery on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most famous artifacts of its kind, isn't actually a tapestry. Technically, because the images it bears are embroidered onto the cloth rather than woven into it, we should call it the Bayeux Embroidery. Open Culture, openculture.com

One of the more exciting calls I get as an artist working in the field of new media is for editorial illustration work. It’s rare. I most do generative design as a commercial practice. I don’t have a…

This is shocking to a lot of people. Maybe because I love makeup and skincare and those are habits. Maybe because I always check if doors are locked a bunch of times before leaving. Or because I’ve…

Aesthetics

Choreographer Alexander Whitley has developed a reputation for his bold, interdisciplinary approach, producing innovative and thought-provoking productions, such…

GLOBAL LAUNCH WHITE CUBE

Andreas Wannerstedt is one of a growing number of artists animating hypnotic loops and soothing vision designed for an audience that's craving calm.  'My wor...

The International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove’s exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production.

This month, the Royal Shakespeare Company is set to put on a live, virtual play called Dream that will be performed by actors in motion capture suits and ani...

Music/Sound

Stream/download 'James' everywhere now – https://oscarandthewolf.lnk.to/jamesID-A film by BLEUNUITDirector MAX COLOMBIE & MAKY MARGARIDISLine Producer SALOM...

Available worldwide March 26, 2021 on Luaka Bop. RSVP for 'Promises: Chapter One', a non-visual experience on Sunday, March 21st at https://listentopromises....

Pre-Order 'Dream Weapon' Here: http://bit.ly/genghistrondwDigital Downloads/Streaming: http://orcd.co/genghistrondwSubscribe to Relapse Records Channel: http...

For real nerds

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed this review of the Pocket Guitar by Aeroband. If you want to check this out then here are the links: Store: https://aeroband.n...

Each one of Dragon's LED particles have a specific behaviour every fraction of time. A three dimensional image that is visible for everybody but different fr...

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