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Share your location
Software, like literature, not only relies upon but reframes language. “Sharing” is a particularly contentious nexus in a Web 2.0 economy. Here, the browser prompts the user to share in response to a...
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BOTOPERA @ poetry festival + art book fair, wiels
We (An Mertens, Anne Laforet, Antonio Roberts, Gijs de Heij & myself) performed and installed the “botopera” this weekend at Wiels. It was interesting to see this work in the context of an art book...
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After a long gestation period, Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Kurenniemi in 2048 has been published! Edited by Joasia Krysa, and including a contribution written by Geoff Cox, Nicolas...
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Part of the ongoing transition of big commercial online platforms away from a promiscuous and porous web to a “gated platform” and “developer sandbox”. Of note is the language of “authentic...
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A(nother) web focused git workflow
I have been using a git-based web publishing workflow now for a few projects, and now have finally hooked it up to my personal site (automatist.org). For my own documentation, I thought I’d write down...
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Continuing the spirit of documenting those little recipes I find myself continually drawing upon, a makefile for turning a directory of markdown sources to HTML using pandoc and simply by typing make....
View ArticleA close reading of “An open letter of gratitude to GitHub”
Source: https://github.com/thank-you-github/thank-you-github Forked Version: https://github.com/automatist/thank-you-github Text copied 15 Jan 2016 Dear GitHub, Before 2007, the way to participate in...
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I’m working on the concept of a situated media player whereby embedded media functions as a webring, cross linking laterally between different sites in an acti of solidarity opposing a centralizing...
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