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OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet

OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet, aims to present a high-quality forum of discussion about the identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet with space, place, geography and distance, whether physical or virtual. Technologies as well as novel ideas, experiments, and insights originating from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, including humanities, social sciences and mathematics are welcome. Please visit the workshop’s website.

Most often I cannot read the CAPTCHAs… so I wonder.

Akira Kurosawa’s multi perspective narration of a murder, Rashomon, is on Google video (and on the internet archive). (from we make money not art)

Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will as well reports artbasher!

After yesterday’s film, with full making off (Koyaanisqatsi), websites for pro shorts (atomfilms) pilots from Scrubs writers going directly online (e.g. Nobody’s Watching), or other directly in Second Life (Four Eyed Monster), the question is: who really needs IP TV?

It is in the air as shows this elaborate hoax (or not?) where secret access to Google TV project would be granted by a hundred (or a thousand) successive signouts and logins in gmail (see techcrunch). I also asked to be part of the public beta of Joost led by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Internet’s biggest trouble makers after Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, without getting anything yet. So why? Maybe because it will look so great…

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by El Coyote Electrico

Hey, is there something happening without us noticing? All of a sudden robots start to dance, skate and be cute! They also become pregnant, platonician filmakers and crime fighters in Korea (soon).

But my fafourite is definitely TempBot, the robot temporary worker in this thrilling story of love and loneliness in an all gervaisian ‘office’ environment:

Of course, intelligence is not quite there yet, so let’s work on it.