What it says... coming soon apparently....

See http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/17860/

Location-Based WiFi Services ?

This could be an interesting development - seems to be targetted at consumers! But presumably developers can add to the services on offer? See the developers page. Client software development is open sourcei.

This is what they are claiming:

Herecast provides location-based services on a WiFi device. At its simplest level, it can tell you where you are. More advanced services can use your location to enhance information lookups, publish presence information, and create unique games -- all while preserving privacy.

From the wayback machine

You might like to look at some previous incarnations

Very early

Early

Mid career

More recent

If the video above does not start try the link below.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Stubbs, international artist and currently Head of Exhibitions at the world leading Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), as the organisation’s new director.

See http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=64

Fantastic - heard this on Radio 4 this morning.

This text from ICA website:

'Concerto for Voice & Machinery II is an ICA commissioned re-enactment of the infamous gig by some members of Einsturzende Neubauten and other musicians such as Genesis P Orridge and Frank 'Fad Gadget' Tovey, which took place at the ICA on 3rd January 1984 and was composed around the use of industrial machinery, destruction of raw materials and ultimately the theatre stage.'

Portraits including 13 Most Beautiful Avatars

Unusually here are some portraits conceived by Eva and Franco Mattes - all very beautiful, slick and embodying a virtuali character.

I liked the phrase within the text of the essay you can also read on their website which describes Second Life as an 'identity factory' plus a quote from Andy Warhol -

«It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. And so you start to copy the photograph»
Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol 'From A to B and Back Again', 1975)

Two new websites for the digitali community:

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Digital North - www.digitalnorth.org

Ditigal Futures - www.digitalfuturesnw.com

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Digital North is to develop the media arts infrastructure across the three regions which make up the 'Greater North': The Northeast, the Northwest and Yorkshire and the Humber.

This is my first post to our new blogi. We're a bit late in the game for doing this - there are plenty of other blogs around, but I hope it will be useful to casual readers and to those more keenly following media arts activity. For myself this will be a place to collect my thoughts and archive those ephemeral things that I think are of interest.

A brief note about myself:

I am the Chief Executive for the organisation and have been formally employed here for just over 6 years, but have been less formally involved with folly since it opened its doors here in Lancaster in 1996. Then my interest was as a new media artist, gaining access to facilities, exhibiting my work and taking part in project activity.