Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development. 

• Jonathan Riedel

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  Sep 14 2011: Do these data churners take in information gathered from surveys, or just volunteers' input? I always wondered how we could use data to solve the problems that people always bring up in conversations. How long do Macs last versus PCs? Surely there's a way to ask people to submit how long their computers have lasted (with all the repairs they've done, etc.) to put an end to the debate.
  
  Japanese- vs. U.S. -made cars?
  iPhones vs. Blackberrys?
  
  It'd be nice to see a real, "neutral" source for these things instead of listening to sales pitches or reading them on google searches.

• Greg Bean 30+

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  Mar 9 2010: Technology that provides secure internet banking capabilities could easily deliver secure voting capabilities. When that is combined with information available on a world wide web of data, outlined here, people will be able to easily stay informed and vote in a knowledgeable fashion.
  
  For example, if the section on Gov't monitoring, "Where's the money go", was extended to include a voting function something like "Where SHOULD the money go" it could drive Gov't at the most significant level, expediture of tax dollars!!
  
  Direct democracy, allowing people to vote on issues rather than for politicians is fast becoming a possibility due to the internet.
  
  Will England, the home of modern democracy, and THE leader in the provision of online information, deliver this new internet based direct democracy? What a coup that would be.

  • Hans Loepfe

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    Apr 4 2011: Quote: "Direct democracy, allowing people to vote on issues rather than for politicians is fast becoming a possibility due to the internet."
    
    Direct democracy has been alive long before the Internet was invented. See for yourself in eg. Switzerland where people vote on issues AND representative politicians. As of today April 3., 2011 the youngest politician was voted into the 'Kantonsrat of Appenzell Ausserrhoden'. She is 18 years young.
    However, it was farsighted Napoleon who applied direct democracy to Switzerland. In fact Napoleon kind of ordered the Swiss to adopt this form of Democracy.
    Nevertheless most governments including the Swiss still have long ways to go in providing open government data.
    Sad news is that the US-Governement has just slashed the spending by 35Millions for the e-government fund 2011.
    source: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798
    sign the petition: http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/

BBC Horizon - Out of Control?

In todays modern world we struggle with data overload. Scientist agree that our brain capacity is far less conscious than they once thought. About 5% conscious and 95% Unconscious. To harness the power of the unconscious heralds a bold new future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01dlglq/

In this test four colour shapes appear for a slit second then a single shape will appear with its directs altered. One must decide if the shape has turned left or right.

In this test segments of a arial map are flash before the view, the brain is being viewed for electrical activity, a test of recognition (the a ha! test). In this image the results are shown. Light blue is not so well recognised and red is highly recognosable.

Suits

Drypoint Card

Perspex 

Art Degrees???

Interesting conversation with Alain de Botton about the confusion of what art degrees actually are. A vocational course that could be achieved at weekends and universities are giving the idea that there is jobs awaiting them. Their approach is something like advertising or a science when it is actually far from. He goes on to say do not study Art nor Philosophy.  Also surveys for happiness understanding what people want if not money. Tax payers money is being used to see how happy people are (showing Northern Ireland as happiest). The questions are not a individual government funded survey but questions being added to an already existing survey. Botton says "they are looking to why people may leave the city from highly paid jobs to smaller modest living, if people are no longer driven by money what is it they want"

Iggy Azalea's - My World

Marie Madeleine - Swimming Pool

American Pastorals

" I was a biography in perceptual motion, memory to the morrow of my bones."
Phillip Roth p45

DJuna Barnes (Check out 21.00 mins)

Rhinds Hard Ground

Trying to apply Rhinds Hard Ground at home without a hot plate. Degreasing is fine but keeping the plate hot and applying a even layer of ground is impossible.

Philip Roth

And yet, what are we to do about this terrible significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision another's interior workings and invisible aims?

Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1998: 35)


The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

Juan Genoves -Tomas Rydin- Richard Drew

My Lino Cut

Unknown

Tomas Rydin- No title

Juan Genoves (Secuencias

Juan Genoves - Solo

Richard Drew - Falling Man

Toilet Graffiti

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion”  Henry David Thoreau 

Hans Haacke

'I allow the process to have its way.. i am not aiming for a particular look, so visual terms do not apply... i was concerened with change' Regarding Public Space 2005 p142

Sim City Churches

The Mosaic Rooms - Hans Ulrich Obrist & Adonis

‘The ‘I’ does not exist without the ‘other’, and also, if I want to go in search of myself, I must go in search of the other’ Adonis (2009)

The Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club — Balduin Baas as Conductor (Original Mix)

Maribou State - Olivia E.P (Preview) (Forthcoming Fat! Feb 6th)

Nash Equilibrium

Watch it on Academic Earth

Thoughts on The Cell

Solitary confinement removes “the other”,he who bring us into existence. If there is no ‘self’ we remove our subjectivity. In solitary confinement the event is our return to others and until this point we do not bare witness. 

Post Internet (art) Hans Ulrich

Karen Archey Introduction
"This generation is characterized by a renewed confidence in the fundamental possibilities of art…To this generation, the notion that the author has lost its relevance feels like a conclusion of a previous generation, not ours. There is a real and honest engagement with materiality, abstraction, signification, monumentality, expressionism, formalism and art history, all from a generation of artists who are no longer convinced by the priority given to relational aesthetics, documentary practices, and art as knowledge production. We prefer to free art of the demand to proclaim its legitimacy beforehand.

Cory Arcangel
vernaculars that emerge in digital systems
His found footage video of Shernberg played by cats uses the joke "most of the avart music of the early 20th centuary sounds like cats on pianos."


Daniel Keller (Keller Kosmas)
each google search has a carbon emission of 7 grams to boil a kettle is 14 grams
He looks at objects that are in purpose defeating them selves in their own creation like a snake eating its own tail. He is exhibiting solar panels that are for companies to appear green when actually they use more energy to build than they will ever produce them selves. I was told once that the new thames barrier being built would take 10 years to build but but due to global warning London will flood by 7
He then shows the image of a Solar powered tanning salon in LA


John Nash
Says twitter is the illusion of a audience and youtube is the illusion of a group. Considering how people are clustered together.
He consider his new work "a collection of you tube fight videos" much like a gladiatorial theatre and makes us look at the tools surrounding them such as "like" and "Unlike". 
Also:
Ed von Ellis

Oliver Larich - Recycling Content

Rafaël Rozendaal

A Dangerous Method

A film about Dr Jung and Professor Freud. 1st February 

The Rise of the Network Society

When the net switches off the self, the self, individual or collective constructs its meaning without global, instrumental reference; the process of disconnection becomes reciprocal, following the refusal by the excluded of the one-sided logic of structural domination and social exclusion.” Manuel Castells

The Cell - Antonio Negri

Taking about his imprisonment and how to maintain ones humanity while being under external control.
He was sentenced for acts against the state.

"Deception is a state of mind and a mind of state" - James Jesus Angleton (Head of CIA Intelligence 1954-74)

33% Festival London

A Devise to Root out Evil/1997

 Dennis Oppenheim, Device to Root Out Evil, 1997. Galvanized structural steel, anodized perforated aluminum, transparent red Venetian glass, and concrete foundations, 6.71 x 5.49 x 2.74 m. Photo: Fred Buchor

In a series of works produced between 1970 and 1974, Oppenhiem uses his own body as a site to challenge the self: he explored the boundaries of personal risk, transformation, and communication.1981 opened a new chapter, with machine pieces, complex constructions which he used to create a metaphor for the artistic process.

Marilyn Monroe; The last Sessions

When she goes to bed with a man he is here for Monroe. But he wakes up with me. He enters the room again the lighting is different his smile is gone.

She struggled with her Identity and produced bouts of Schizophrenia

She said to Greenson her psychiatrist "I dont know what the night is for.." he replies " the night is for Monroe to leave and her to come back" but there was no her it was just more Limerol and other drugs.

On the the night of her singing Happy Birthday to JFK the audience made reference to the fact her dress was so tight it was like skin. But it was her skin that was so tight like a dress that she was unable to expose.

Greenson reflected that she thought to be taken by the camera is to exist. The key word used in films "Take!" to be offered up and taken.

As a child she loved to go to the famous chinese theatre where the hand prints of celebrities cover the sidewalk. When she had the opportuity to sink her hands into the wet cerment for real.she had the impression of sinking her hands into the past and understood nothing was impossible.

Lino and Japanese Plywood

Churchs are Anthropomorphisms

"The landscape disturbs me in my thinking" Franz Kafka

Nendo; Book & Shelf

The Walker Art Gallery Liverpool - The Books of Matisse

'Le Clown' ('The Clown'), plate I of XX from the illustrated book Jazz, 1947. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. 
© Succession H. Matisse/DACS 2011

Some postcards found at the Criterium Auction House

Luke Newton (recent show)

I studied at Byam Shaw with Luke before he moved to Paris and a few weeks ago we talking about our ideas. I explained to him that I was wanting to make up images using QR codes, so a image could be interactive and speak. As you can see from the above image we both had the same idea but executed it in different ways.


Abbé Pierre - Recall

Here is Luke working for Jonone in Paris. The style of the work is graffiti base but moving into a fine art context. I enjoyed the grandeur of the piece and its two stages one of the text and the second of the image breaking through.

Book design from Poc a Poc Blog