Derek Lerner

Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne The Battery Maritime Building 10 South Street, New York, NY (Map) 31 May – 10 August 2008  Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM (Free) Opening Reception: 31 May, 6–8 PM  [Download press release] Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into [...]

Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by playing MMORPG games. Ge Jin, a 30-year-old Shanghai native and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego, has shot a Gold Farmers, a documentary that delve into the background and lives of Chinese gold farmers.

People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

[...]The public begins participating in the project. What a great social experiment… Small children naturally jumped right in and began coloring… the older people got… the more they had to ease into participating. Some people spent 20 minutes coloring… some people a few hours… a few people were with me all day. Some people were [...]

[...]Northern California-based artist Bruce Shapiro makes the kind of kinetic sculpture that mesmerizes and dazzles visitors at science museums using computers and simple motors, a practice he terms “The Art of Motion Control.”[...] via COOL HUNTING One of Shapiro’s students created this pattern to have eggbot draw a face

The "Logo_Wiki" project by Wayne Clements catalogs some of the institutions (companies and government agencies) involved in editing Wikipedia pages in order to expose how these entities are skewing the information on the free, online encyclop...

new Bear in Heaven video from Pitchfork's ForkCast

Annie Ok: “My Life as An Avatar” 4.28.08 Machinima portrait of Xantherus Halberd in Second Life. Part of ongoing “My Life as An Avatar” series by Annie Ok.

Another infamous Yale performance "artist"... http://dyske.com/index.php?view_id=856

Norwayweb was originally part of a series called Protocol Performance realised in 2007 with the support of the Norwegian Cultural Council, section for art and new technology. This work uses specific data collected from a source or sources originating from the national system’s database. The information is scraped from about 4 million Norwegian tax payer’s [...]