Digital Artifact Magazine

Vic Reeves’s Ministry of Curious Stuff brings Wonky animation to CBBC

brooknlt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:19:50 +0000

The Ministry of Curious Stuff is the place to go if you have an odd or weird question that you need an answer for, such as ‘Do flying monkey soldiers exist?’, ‘Are twins magic?’, or ‘Can you dance on the moon?’,” says Vic Reeves. “Dead important questions like that. We do our best to find the answer. It’s a very curious place and there are lots of weird characters joining us along the way.Wonky created 36 sketches of 15-45 seconds apiece from Vic’s drawings using a mix of Illustrator, Flash and After Effects.

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Advertorial: 68% fel their printer ink runs out too quickly

brooknlt — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:20:32 +0000

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Advertorial: 68% fel their printer ink runs out too quickly

68% fel their printer ink runs out too quickly

brooknlt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:20:37 +0000

Inkjet printer woes are brought out here on a survey with home users. The frequent Ink getting exhausted problems were cited as a major problem by 66 percent of them. This view has another connotation meaning the growing knowledge among printer users on the extent of consumption of printer consumables instead of judging a printer only on its cost. Page yield rate claimed by printer manufacturers may not be real and needs probing. The advent of cloud and mobile computing has made the printing task easy. All said, the feature of tray capacity needs examination by buyers.

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Louvre and Nintendo aim to make art child’s play

brooknlt — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:20:49 +0000

Louvre and Nintendo aim to make art child’s play
Agence France Presse @ Google News – The Louvre said Thursday it has teamed up with Nintendo to hand out 3D game consoles to guide visitors through its vast art collections, as part of a stepped up digital drive at the Paris museum.

Starting in March, the world’s most visited museum will gradually replace its traditional audio-guides — used by just four percent of its 8.5 million annual visitors — with 3DS pocket consoles.

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Digital artist wins first CERN, Ars Electronica joint-residency competition

brooknlt — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:21:04 +0000

Digital artist wins first CERN, Ars Electronica joint-residency competition
Symmetry Breaking – CERN and international cyberarts organization Ars Electronica declared Julius von Bismarck the winner of their first digital arts joint-residency program today. The 28-year-old German artist will spend two months at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, and a third month at Ars Electronica in Austria, collaborating with scientists and digital experts to create a physics-inspired artwork as part of the Collide@CERN program. Read more.

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Ofsted slams technology teaching in schools

brooknlt — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:21:16 +0000

Inspectors found that secondary school pupils’ performance was adversely affected by the “lack of a challenge” for more able students, and “poor coverage of key aspects of the ICT curriculum”.The report, ‘ICT in Schools 2008-11′, found that although ICT was “good” or “outstanding” in over two-thirds of primary schools visited, the position was less positive for secondary schools, with just over a third of the secondary schools in the survey judged “good” or “outstanding”.

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Ofsted slams technology teaching in schools

Flash Player 11.1 arrives for Android 4.0

brooknlt — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:21:37 +0000

The release, now available in the Android Market, does not include any major features, except bug fixes related to stability, performance, and device compatibility, Adobe says in the release notes. Instead the headline feature is support for ICS, which coincides with the U.S. launch of the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon.

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Flash Player 11.1 arrives for Android 4.0

Normski photography show in London

brooknlt — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:21:44 +0000

Throughout his career, Normski has been documenting the rise of hip hop culture in the UK through photography. As a key figure on the UK’s early hip hop scene, Normski enjoyed unparalled access to rising stars of the home grown scene and touring acts from the US who appear in his own particular brand of portrait photography. Well known subjects appearing in Normski’s work include the likes of Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie and Public Enemy.

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Normski photography show in London

Richard Rinehart on digital art

brooknlt — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:18:08 +0000

Traditional art in the Western fine art tradition would be those media that we are all familiar with: sculpture, painting, photography, printing and printmaking. Nontraditional art is any practice or form that doesn’t fit into those standards, so anything from conceptual art or performance art, installation art. More recently, video art is a nontraditional form that has been around long enough to be on the cusp of becoming more of a traditional art.

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Richard Rinehart on digital art

Japanese commuter paints iPod art on train to work (VIDEO)

brooknlt — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:18:03 +0000

Boston Cyberarts presents its second exhibition in Atlantic Wharf’s new dedicated art galler,Vast Vistas: Landscape in New Media, an exhibition of work by four artists: Julia Hechtman, Georgie Friedman, Jane Marsching and Luke Strosnider.

Landscapes are more the product of culture than nature. When artists try to reproduce the world in its natural state, they create a vision of how they wish nature would be. Read more.

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Japanese commuter paints iPod art on train to work (VIDEO)