mbf tod@y:

« September 2011 | Main | November 2011 »

ART: Doug Rickard (2011)

Doug Rickard from Pier 24 Photography on Vimeo.

Posted by "mbf" on October 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM in Art | Permalink | Comments (0)

FETISH: the future of augmented reality

Posted by "mbf" on October 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

ITALY: game over for the belpaese

"Even now, few Italians actually believe that their country has become incapable of helping itself. But their faith was sorely tested last week by three hammer blows to national pride. Moody’s followed Standard & Poor’s in a sharp downgrading of Italy’s credit rating, and, like S&P, cited political fragility as a contributing factor; the Kercher case collapsed; and Corriere della Sera published a leaked letter to Berlusconi from Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank. Trichet in effect told the Italian government how to run the country and set tight deadlines for implementing “a comprehensive, far-reaching, and credible reform strategy.”" (Newsweek)

read more

Posted by "mbf" on October 10, 2011 at 11:37 AM in surviving milan | Permalink | Comments (0)

ART: carlo zanni's my country is a Living Room, 2011 (2011)

" my country is a Living Room is a project by artist Carlo Zanni who made extensive and radical use of Google Scribe to write a short poem on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification

The poem was written in English using Google Scribe, an online editor that auto-completes suggestions as you type. Only the words and letters printed in bold at the beginning of each sentence have been consciously written.

For instance, in the first sentence the only words written on purpose were: “I wok”, while the rest was automatically suggested by the online software and accepted pressing several times -one for each word- the space bar.

And so on, phrase by phrase, this visionary and dystopian poem wrote itself unveiling -in a constant stream of consciousness feeling- some inconvenient truths framing a sleeping, resigned, happy nation.

The poem has been translated by Google Translate to fifty seven languages with no editing (all the translations are available in the book).

The book is a 150 pages, hard cover with dust jacket Print on Demand book powered by lulu.com.

The back cover hosts an endorsement by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum and Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School)" (Carlo Zanni)