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Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953)

It never stops being astonishing, the way the dynamics of a piece can outgrow the original input, the aesthetic conception, the initial conceptual framework.
I had heard a version where it was Rauschenberg asking De Koonig for a drawing that was dear to him. The story as told by Rauschenberg is so much more human, and impressive.

This one is from .pinktentacle

Audiovisual paintings by Osada Genki

Osada Genki, a physicist turned painter and ambient noise artist, creates highly textural, abstract audiovisual paintings using snippets of altered video — often of human faces and forms — smothered under thick layers of kaleidoscopic digital glitchiness and wrapped in lush, gritty soundscapes.

+ Kao Study

+ Abura Ponchi E

+ Hanpa Nai Tomo

More on Osada Genki’s YouTube channel and website.

From medGadget:

As you can see in the clip, movement of the device is controlled through subtle movements of the hips and lower torso by sensing pressure changes and weight balance shifting. This is battery operated with a reported top speed of 12 MPH.

Dear all,

We got an exhibition space, It's the old auditorium of the UvA. A very demanding and unique location/space.
You can pitch your ideas at blog - projects (page) . Also we will arrange to visit the space together.

See the space Pic's and more at the Projects Page.

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this is a post on "Turing test" from the (Discovermagazine.com)

How Can You Tell If Your IM Buddy Is Really a Machine?

Hint: Ask it about Sarah Palin.

by Melissa Lafsky

published online March 23, 2009

Computer screen at the 2008 Loebner Prize

Image courtesy of Kevin Warwick

Once a year, a group of computer scientists and technology mavens gather at the Loebner Prize Competition to test the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence. The contest is a real-world rendition of the famous "Turing test" dreamed up by computer science luminary Alan Turing in the 1950s: A human engages in an electronic conversation with another human and a machine simultaneously. If the judge can't tell the person from the computer, then the machine passes.

The annual winner of the competition walks away with a $2,000 prize and a bronze medal. The Grand Prize of $100,000 and a Gold Medal has never been awarded, and remains reserved for the first computer whose responses are fully indistinguishable from a human's—the first computer that can truly "think" (at least, per Turing's definition).

Last year's judges—a group of journalists, computer scientists, philosophy professors, and other academics—each sat at a computer screen split down the middle, with one chat on each side. The judges were told that one of the chats was with a bot, while the other was with a human.

read more at (Discovermagazin).

This article Is from (New Art)

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Good, Honest and Effective

The above excerpt (and pic) was taken from The Cost of Living, a film (and performance) by the British physical theatre company DV8.

I think art is something that makes us look at our lives and to think about them in a way that is more rich. I think there's a big argument for poetry and for the construction of elements. When somebody writes a great essay, they have taken the words and placed them in a certain way to make you think more deeply about that subject. That is for me the very function of art. You get together, you get a group of people, you place things very carefully in order, and the placement is artificial, but if the integrity and the focus is clear, then hopefully it makes people see their roles more clearly. And think about them. And that's what I would like to do.
- Lloyd Newson, DV8 director, in a great interview.

		The girlie-faced humanoid boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models. -- PHOTO: AFP

TSUKUBA (Japan) - JAPANESE researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.

The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair-do boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.

'Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C,' said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.

The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms - including batteries. She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.

'If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny,' said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita.

'We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style.' The institute said the robot 'has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry' but is not for sale at the moment.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed bright smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices.

The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions - a mistake the inventors put down to a case of the nerves as a hail of camera shutters confused her sound recognition sensors.

The preview was a warm-up for her appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.

Like her real-life counterparts, robot model HRP-5C commands a hefty price - the institute said developing her cost more than 200 million yen (S$3 million). -- AFP

This is a nice article I found in the net (msnbc), make you think…
Find more cyberpunk stuff at (Cyberpunk Review).

Plakbenz,

Special deliveries: Are designer babies arriving?

L.A. clinic is advertising controversial procedure to preselect physical traits

Video

Fertility treatments going too far? March 3: A fertility clinic with offices in Los Angeles and New York allows parents to choose the sex of their baby. TODAY’s Meredith Vieira talks to Dr. Jamie Grifo about the future of fertility treatments that may let parents choose physical traits. Today show

By Mike Celizic

Imagine ordering a baby like dinner: “We’ll take the boy in the Greek-god model, but can you make him 6-foot-4 instead of 6 feet? And gimme the green eyes instead of the blue; ash-blond hair — a little curly, but not too much; olive complexion; 140 IQ; heavy on the fast-twitch muscles.”

Sound like science fiction? Maybe not: The news that a California fertility clinic is offering prospective parents the opportunity to improve the odds of having children with preselected hair, skin and eye color has renewed the debate over “designer babies.”

But Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at the NYU School of Medicine, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday in New York that the issue is overblown.

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