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Robot Film Festival

Robot Film Festival

Is this the world’s first Robot Film Festival? I think so! The deadline to submit a film is June 5th. So if you have a robot and a video camera, now is your robot’s chance to walk (or roll) down the red carpet in New York City! Please submit your outstanding, dazzling, hilarious or thought-provoking […]

Signal to Noise #2 at Museum of the Moving Image

Signal to Noise #2 at Museum of the Moving Image

Babycastle’s hacked video games at Signal to Noise #1 – photo by Wendy Moger Bross Signal to Noise returns to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC, this Saturday, May 7, with many installations converting electricity into visual and aural stimulation. You’ll encounter hacked Gameboy 8-bit bands (Bubblyfish), augmented reality game shows (The […]

Generational Loss In Housekey Copies

Generational Loss In Housekey Copies

Brooklyn artist Daniel Bejar made a copy of the key to his apartment (hopefully not his current one, because there’s software out there that can reverse-engineer it from the photograph). Then he made a copy of the copy. And then he repeated the process, by my count, 67 times. At which point the copy was an uncut blank. It’s kind of like I Am Sitting In a Room, but with keys. [via Boing Boing]

Printable Strandbeests

The amazing Meredith Yayanos, of Coilhouse (my hands-down favorite art/culture actual-print zine), posted news of these awesome mini versions of kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen’s now-iconic Strandbeests. They’re 3D printed, already assembled, and available for sale by Shapeways. Sweet. They’re not that cheap, at 106 bucks a pop, but hey, it’s art, it’s future tech, it’s […]