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...scientists are showing just how measurable — and dangerous — prolonged exposure to stress can be. Stanford University neurobiologist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and renowned author Robert Sapolsky reveals new answers to why and how chronic stress is threatening our lives in Killer Stress, a National Geographic Special. The hour-long co-production of National Geographic Television and Stanford University was produced exclusively for public television.

“Are you human?” - Urban intervention, Series of hand cut CAPTCHA tags, 60 x 25 cm, 5 mm foam board, spray paint

“Captcha codes are omnipresent on the web since a while and I loved them from the beginning. In a certain way they tell a lot about our relation to the machine world. And btw, I am waiting for the day when they will be extinct.”

CAPTCHA codes are publicly available, and each is uniquely generated by a computer program which “knows” the correct response. Although current software is unable to accurately read and understand the codes most humans can. Getting up with CAPTCHA cracks me up. I’ve heard of graff writers flipping tags in reverse to add some confusion to the game, but bombing with a challenge-response test is a new one for sure. Abstract conceptual public art? I also find the reCAPTCHA project very interesting.

Aram Bartholl has been working in Berlin since 1995. In his art work he thematizes the relationships between net data space and every day life. “In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What returns from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?”

Thought these were nice and wanted to quickly post. Read an inverview with the Ebon @ yatzer.

Creative Time TV is a new online program from Creative Time, presenting video works and series.

Creative Time is a nonprofit organization that commissions and presents public arts projects of all disciplines. They strive to commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging and exceptional art of our times; art that infiltrates the public realm and engages millions of people in NYC and across the globe.

Our submission was one of two runners-up and was featured on Creative Time's YouTube Channel.

See a few more versions here.

Looks as if some 733t /b/tards are in it FTW! moot, 4chan founder, currently ranked #1 in TIME’s World’s Most Influential People of 2009.

via: Jimmy Ruska’s Blog
The methods, scripts and programs posted to upvote moot in most threads often didn’t include the ‘key’ query string variable which is some kind of md5 dependent on the score. It looks like voting without the key variable doesn’t work anymore even though it had before. They probably wiped out all the votes that didn’t have a key or that had an incorrect key. In the mean time people are randomly speculating they wiped votes that were exactly 100 or 1. Changing the number to something random without updating the authentication key just causes the query to fail. There’s also speculation you will be blocked for voting faster than every x seconds. It looks like it logs the votes and runs some kind of cron job every minute adding people who have voted too much to the blocked list. Within that span, you can vote as many times as you want. It also seems to have some kind of requirement, eg if the log has over 5000 votes flush it and check for repeats to block.

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Wednesday, April 1st

Eleven Rivington
11 Rivington St. between Chrystie and Bowery, NYC
MTA Subway stations: F and V to 2nd Ave or 6 to Spring St.

6pm-8pm

Signed books will be available for purchase

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ART REFERENCE (BOOKS), PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 113x185CM, 2001


FREE STATE III,PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 127X161CM

Richard Galpin intricately scores and peels away emulsion from the surface of his photographs producing a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind - each piece is unique and made entirely by the erasure of photographic information.

In 2008 Hales Gallery published "Surface to Surface", a book that documents the development of Galpin's work - from the early works based on snapshots of London shop signs, to the latest large scale works with New York and Sao Paulo cityscapes. The essay by writer and curator David Thorp contextualises Galpin's practice within a 20th Century art-historical discourse, exploring the various references in the work to early modernist movements.

Crossposted from Derek Lerner : syndication + aggregation


From the website

This image is 100 meters long. There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007.

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1stfans is a socially networked Brooklyn Museum membership.

from the website
A 1stfans Membership is an interactive relationship with the Museum that will happen in the building and online. We call it a “socially networked” Museum Membership, but what does that mean? The word has two meanings, which is why we picked it: it means developing face-to-face relationship with Museum staff and other Museum Members (literal social networking), and a strong, exclusive online relationship through social networking sites (you know them as Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter).

The artist for the Twitter Art Feed will be announced in the middle of each month for the following month, so keep a close eye on this blog in the next two weeks for the announcement of the January artist.

Joseph Kosuth, one of the founders of the conceptual art movement in the 1960s is 1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for March.

This month, Currency by artist Mary Temple is featured in the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Brooklyn Museum developed a way to display Mary's drawings in calendar-format, so the virtual presentation mirrored the layout in Pittsburgh at the Mattress Factory with an added Twitter twist. 1stfans have been able to follow day-by-day, and everyone will be able to see the work firsthand as it will be installed for one night only at the March 7th Target First Saturday.

The title, of the piece, Currency, most obviously references my desire and attempt to keep current of world events, to try to understand some of what is happening in the world. It also refers to something that fascinates me about an industry that trades in a product that is only valuable until the moment it is heard, at which time it instantly loses its value. Yesterdays news is an artifact which no longer has currency or power as a trade worthy item. The title Currency also refers to the scale of the portraits themselves, which might evoke a bank note or dollar bill portrait, the image of power and money entwined. -Mary Temple

Read more about this piece here.

1stfans brought their own paper on Saturday January 3, 2009 and artists from Swoon's studio printed Swoon's work for any member of 1stfans.

Join 1stfans for $20 per year and get access to exclusive events at Target First Saturday, skip the movie line, updates via social networks and access contemporary artists Tweeting on our 1stfans Twitter Art Feed.

It's really great to start seeing more artists using Twitter in creative ways. I've dipped my toes into this concept with RobinAstro.txt and would love to spend more time exploring Twitter as an arts "space".


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Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?



More info here http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm



An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.