Jac Depczyk : links

Beauty WILL save the world says Renzo -- lets hope so -- he is certainly helping.

French site for a well known Spanish artist. i am rather disillusioned that it is a yet another Wordpress installation :-/
but check also picasso.com -- shows what can happen if you do not register a .com version of your name...

an astonishing lesson in DIY neuroscience reveals the dragonfly as a 97% accurate predator. all this with only 16 neurons.

lost and miraculously resurrected 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.

Bono puts his stage skills to better use, and -- yes -- he has the Results!

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.

new online journal from NY art group e-flux

general computer and IT industry news - useful and often entertaining

London visual artist and writer, creatively using IT technology

astounding percussive double bass version -- music speaks one language, across all borders.

Anil Seth explains how we predict ourselves into existence, includes the wonderful artificial hand experiment.

great talk from big Jaron - "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them"

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...

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

Parisian literary collective