Marius Watz delivers a brief survey of the state of computational aesthetics from early pioneers to the recent boom in creatives working with code.
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson — do yourself a favor and watch this. Skip the first 3 minutes.
Gotta love the man.
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Adam Greenfield on Another City is Possible
So where do we find ourselves, after a solid decade of smart city rhetoric? What was promised to us, what has been delivered, what were the results, and what remains possible? Which cities have successfully capitalized on emergent technology, and which have made the wrong bets? Whose interests are reflected in smart city discourse, and whose have tended to be overlooked or pushed to the side?
This talk with Urbanscale founder and managing director Adam Greenfield aims to cleave hype from genuine potential, decode the claims currently being made for urban informatics, and lay out a set of criteria by which future proposals can be evaluated.
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Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition
Jonathan made Braid, one of the best indie games in recent history and is another outspoken critic of what many call “Gamification”, specially inside of the gaming industry itself.
I have also pointed to Ian Bogost before. Who he quotes during this presentation.
A good watch and some great points made.
I’m looking forward to his next game (the whole epiphany thing) and hoping that more follow on his footsteps.
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