Afrah Shafiq: Where Do The Ants Go?
Audiences can enter a large-scale sculpture of an anthill to interact with a digital colony of ants that live within an immersive video game inside. Using real time inputs, “players” within the anthill make choices that affect the behaviour of the individual ants and the collective outcome of the colony.
The Zone of Interest – Wie in einem oscarprämierten Film aus Auschwitz ein Geräusch über die Juden wird.
Glazer stellt sich mit seinem Rudolf Höß auf eine Stufe mit Arendt und ihrem Adolf Eichmann. Er macht damit das Böse so klein und trivial, dass noch der mieseste Geschichtsrelativierer mitgehen kann. Wozu der Mensch fähig ist, weiß man schon lange. Das muss uns Jonathan Glazer nicht erklären, schon gar nicht auf dem Rücken der Juden und ihres Schicksals.
“India, that is Bharat…”
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes.
Teens wrote secret binary messages in One Million Checkboxes. I found them.
Bregenz/erwald Bucket List 2024
- [ ] Andelsbuch
- [ ] Feldkirch
- [ ] Friedrichshafen
- [x] Hittisau
- [x] Hohenems
- [x] Käsknöpfle (5⨉!)
- [x] Kunsthaus
- [x] Landesmuseum
- [x] Langenargen
- [x] Lindau
- [x] Mehrerau
- [x] Minigolf
- [x] Pfänder
- [x] Segeln
- [ ] Winterthur
Relevant: Sag mir wo die Felchen sind.
Sisters With Transistors is more than a music documentary. It's a long overdue tribute to the women that broke barriers in music, technology, and society as a whole. This is not a retrospective, it's a new beginning. Who knows how many future maestros will be inspired by this film?
Relevant: Leah Kardos.
New album by The The: Ensoulment.
No release on Bandcamp? Tickets sold via Ticketmaster? May I be slightly disappointed, nevertheless?
Forcing her way through the ostiole, the mated mature female often loses her wings and most of her antennae. (…) After the female wasp lays her eggs and follows through with pollination, she dies.
Relevant: Endless Forms – The Secret World of Wasps. By Seirian Sumner (Thanks for the tip, P.)
Relevant 2: The #wasplove game.
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The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman.
In this blog post, I will attempt to describe the system within which I exist as a moderately successful computer scientist and woman. I will highlight the fallacies that lead to women (1) leaving tech, (2) generally being anxious in our society, and (3) experiencing horrific harassment and misogyny.
Relevant: Gisèle Pelicot, drugged by her husband so others could rape her, is a woman 'still standing'.
Relevant 2: Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being set alight by ex-boyfriend.
Race to the WH – Predictions for the 2024 US Presidential Elections.
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