Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
One of my favorite new blogs is as simple as it sounds: Context-Free Patent Art. It’s a collection of images pulled from the US Patent Office’s archive documenting potential “new” advances in technology. But patents also feature diagrams to describe said work and the results are often delightfully c
Two works from German visual artist Gerhard Richter. 4900 Farben (4900 Colours), 2007. Enamel paint on Aludibond, 680 x 680 cm. 1024 Farben (1024 Colours), 1973. Lacquer on canvas, 299 x 299 cm [via Flavorpill]
A woman named “Rachel” has launched a new site devoted to something surprisingly simple: cataloguing the number of women and girls featured in videogames. She writes: “As I grew older, I found that video game culture and girly culture rarely intersected. Yet, happily, there were places where the tw
About a week ago, I was at a bar with a friend of mine in the East Village and we ordered a cocktail. I’m often asked what I do and in the course of talking to the owner, we started talking about iPhone games. His big complaint was with freemium games, especially those with “pay to play” structures.
Exciting news from the Louvre, one of the greatest art museums in the world. To enhance the museum experience, visitors can now use 3DS devices to listen to more than 700 recordings about the works there (although that’s a tiny portion of the more than 35,000 in the museum’s collection. The Japan Ti
This weekend I attended Rhizome’s annual Seven on Seven conference which presents 24-hour collaborations between artists and technologists. This year featured a host of new work including a fascinating collaboration between Aaron Schwartz and photographer Taryn Simon that allows you to see the diffe
The New York Times profiled Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and tracked his movements while he conducted with the help of tech from NYU Movement Lab. Turning the ethereal nature of music into kinesthetic reality is a challenge and that’s what makes the best conductors amaz
In an attempt to explain the popularity of Mad Men, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik postulates the “Golden Forty Year” rule for nostalgia. Essentially, that’s the amount of time it takes between the production of something wonderful — a fashion style, time period, book, scultpture — and its subsequent