links for 2007-04-14

"Remix Theory is an online resource by Eduardo Navas that offers some of his research on Remix."

"As the sheer number of annual events continues to grow, curators, collectors and dealers are starting to feel fatigued"

"Fairism (if you will) is inexorable, given today's proliferation of galleries (hundreds in New York's Chelsea alone)."

"75% of all artists profit from filesharing."

"Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?"

"we are happy to present you with our ten top patents
of charming, curious and useful tools for creative people,
some of which were invented over a century ago. "

Environmental hazard data for map mashups.

"Numbers seem like pretty basic items, and it might be imagined that the brain has a correspondingly simple way of handling them. In reality, however, our use of numbers is extremely complex."

"Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs. "

"From photographing every house in America, to putting every book online, complete databases are all the rage"

Nice LeWitt article that balances the conceptual and the minimal sides of his work well

How to do print-style typographic grids in CSS.

"It shouldn't be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing."

"the undeniable presence of art in all facets of videogames, be it creation, the end product, or the experience of play, proves that videogames are a new and emerging art form."

"brief but provocative and illuminating meditation on the current craze for searching out, denouncing and punishing authors who appear to have borrowed the work of others"

"MEXICA, developed by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, is a computer program capable of authoring stories all by itself. "

"Using Illustrator's pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how. "

TIny Linux PCs.

A public service publisher in the UK shouldn't just give cash to the usual suspects.

"Howling may be an excellent stress reliever but university officials are frowning on using the school library as the venue. "

"Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can't be charged for downloads."

"They also showed some of the interviews in game, and the effect of avatars watching those interviews seemed to magnify the already mind-bending properties of the project by an order of magnitude."

"Worldbuilding numbs the reader's ability to fulfil their part of the bargain, because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done."

"Despite my bristling reaction all those years ago, I shamelessly admit that the computer has radically altered how I draw, and how I think about drawing. It's improved my speed, and I think, my creativity. I still use a pencil, but it's not the only

A new web comic from the author of the asphyxiatingly funny "Bear".