The mission of the Berkeley Center for New Media is to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and public interest.
Added on: 26-Sep-2012 Hits: 211
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Nicholas Rombes: High Definition Obscurity 
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Nicholas Rombes examines the connections between hyper-reali digital presentations of the world and human perception and interaction. Addressing the issue of resolution and visible detail, Rombes notes that "a blurred picture is just as much a single mental fact as a sharp picture is; and the use of either picture by the mind to symbolize a whole class of individuals is a new mental function, requiring some other modification of consciousness than the mere perception that the picture is distinct or not."
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Added on: 05-Sep-2012 Hits: 214
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House of Laudanum 
Description: The House of Laudanum is a new media business specializing in fine digital solutions for cultural institutions, educational organisations, artists and businesses. We are focused on providing you with exactly what you need to get value from you do. We therefore have a strong process centered around asking the right questions and developing a strategy on your behalf. When your project moves into production we keep in contact with you and teach you everything you need to know so that when your project is delivered you’ll be ready to go.
Added on: 16-Aug-2012 Hits: 211
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Combat Paper Project 
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From uniform to pulp
Battlefield to workshop
Warrior to artist
The Combat Paper Project utilizes art making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences as well as broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and the military culture.
Through papermaking workshops veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beaten into a pulp and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences in the military.
Added on: 01-May-2012 Hits: 273
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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? 
Description: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
Added on: 09-Apr-2012 Hits: 363
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Beyond Representation 
Description: Beyond Representation considers the current fate of photography in digital culture and aims to advance our understanding of the contemporary state-of-play through a call for transdisciplinary contributions that will help to reconsider approaches to photography within networked cultures.
Added on: 18-Dec-2011 Hits: 439
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11 Eleven Project 
Description: On the 11th November 2011, the date reads 11/11/11. This alignment of ones takes place every hundred years, and this time humanity will recognise the occasion like never before. For 24 hours on 11/11/11, anyONE who has access to a film/video/digital camera, microphone, mobile phone or email, will be invited to partake in the biggest creative project of our human history. People from 196 different countries, brought together by over 200 languages, will be asked to capture a day in the life of their world.
Added on: 17-Oct-2011 Hits: 524
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PR Watch 
Description: PRWatch is published by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a non-profit investigative reporting group. Our reporting and analysis focus on exposing corporate spin and government propaganda.
Added on: 16-Oct-2011 Hits: 369
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Ben Grosser 
Description: Ben Grosser is an artist and a composer. He is interested in the ways that technology is changing our experience of the world, and uses those same technologies to create works that both reveal and examine these changes. Grosser's studio practice is research-oriented and builds on my previous work in music and the sciences.
Added on: 05-Sep-2011 Hits: 537
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Celeste Prize 
Description: International critics and curators work under public scrutiny, selecting the very best artwork for final exhibitions. Selectors accept to reveal their choices in public, onsite. Celeste Prize's unique character derives from a clear separation of roles:
Public-selections: Juries and Selection Committee.
Organisation, implementation of terms & conditions: Organiser.