The disruptive future of printing

A nice article at http://news.bbc.co.uk on the exciting future of 3D printing.

“3D printing will soon come up against laws made in a world of factories and machine tools, and the battle is likely to be even more intense than that over music and films” –Bill Thompson

Evan Malone, founder of NextFab Studio ( Breadboard’s programming [...]

Vote Now! Philadipity: An entry in the Gigabit City Contest

The mCenter@Drexel University has entered the Gigabit City contest.

Please VOTE for PHILADIPITY in the Gigabit City Contest by Friday. It will to help create an Open Data City with Serendipity Apps as part of the fantastic FutureEverything Festival.

Arduino::Make it Yourself

art & science for activists' sake: Open Data Kit, data collection and a new mobility

Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. – Wikipedia

Citizen Science Projects is a great blog on the topic and fascinating projects taking place around [...]

The music of sound: Only Everything Lasts Forever

Only Everything Lasts Forever is a very long sound composition for MP3.  It contains every sound we can distinguish as humans and is approximately 10450 years long.

Kyle McDonald works with sounds and codes, exploring translation, contextualization, and similarity. With a background in philosophy and computer science, he strives to integrate [...]

born-digital & BornDigital

What is born-digital material and why does it matter to artists working in a digital realm? A New York Times article, Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit, discusses the subject as it pertains to writers but one would think this applies to visual artists, too.

www.borndigital.nu

While not directly related to the article, the image above [...]