Jac Depczyk : cyberartist

we badly need good news from the advancing robotisation front - and here are some! average humans able to use computers well beat chess champion on supercomputer - the key is low friction interface. brief, it's AI (Artifician Intelligence) vs IA (Intelligence Augumentation)

this now classic vision of the future from the year 2000 remains valid, after 17 years, with most questions unanswered.

Function of intelligence ? keep the maximum of options open.

a poignant message to human kind from one of a kind Stephen Hawking...

astounding percussive double bass version

simple web site from Oscar Schwartz, where you can try to guess whether a poem was written by a human or a computer. many poems easily pass the Turing test of >30%,

a great new talk from Elon Musk - "I just try not to be sad when thinking about future"...

53,000 free ebooks, including many classics, now in public domain. "for human readers only" say the Terms of Use...

nice, clever and hugely successful 7'50'' animation from Chileans Julio Pot and Cecilia Baeriswyl

design studio of my old, multi-talented friend from Paris, now quietly settled in Brooklyn, NY.

useful resource for music notation systems, from sheet music to MIDI and Braille

the fearsome literary magazine in Valencia, Spain, run by (Al)Chemist Ximo Rochera, with Jesús García Cívico (Aldo Alcota has been eaten). now in 7th issue continues to delight and inspire (in Spanish).

PolskaCanada is a 'Magazyn Twórczy' - that means a 'Creative Magazine' - facilitating cultural exchange across the Atlantic for Polish and Canadian authors, my old friend Jan Tomkowski among them.

long forgotten and miraculously resurrected amateur photographer, documenting 20th century America with her sharp European eye. Vivian Maier's (1926 – 2009) cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.

small design studio and shop in central London working for and distributing over 350 of independent magazines from around the world.

dictionary of urban slang and techno neologisms.

computer artist

Greening the ghetto - caution - this is fast moving...

10 breakthrough technologies of the 2013, according to MIT - include memory implants, additive manufacturing and supergrids - they got quite a few of them right. they do that every year, just change the date in the address.

large photography collection and study centre in Antwerpen, Holland

new online journal from NY art group e-flux

mashing up the physical and digital worlds for culture and learning. digital creatures are no longer there, but still a very interesting site.

general computer and IT industry news - useful and often entertaining

Site about great British writer, born in 1949.

American DJ and poet in Paris

combat pseudoscience and hysteria with Steven Salzberg - professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, USA. contains links to statistical data from US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health.

Dutch interaction design engineer

OFF_PRESS is a UK-based independent publishing house, promoting contemporary creative writing in English, with a special focus on translations, using multimedia and live events to celebrate reading and storytelling in different languages/genres around the world.

Austrian architecture studio COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, founded by Wolf D. Prix, is the origin of many interesting and inspiring projects.

UK company that manufactures and supplies the widest range of switchable glass & film products to the trade, since 2004.

Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London.

2001 project from Valencian neofuturist architect, creator of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia.

find precise route information - metro, bus, walking, also gives you the CO2 emissions for each mode of transport. In English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese.

Paris metro is efficient, cheap and beautiful in places.

yes! democracy needs to be updated. but -- it will not be done as easily as you think. techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has the news -- good and bad.

swarm painting, non-human art

Lithuanian photographers' association.

space exploration technology and history from Sven, Sweden.

A new film about ECM's Manfred Eicher, with Arvo Pärt, Dino Saluzzi, Jan Garbarek and others.

TED talk by a reformed graphic designer from Canada

open-source electronics prototyping platform

Artists' group, Amsterdam

poster designs from Geoffrey Dorne (FRA)

Organization for promoting the freedom of thought.

Parisian literary collective