Year: 2013
At least one form of communication is still safe from PRISM, the long-ranging NSA electronic surveillance program uncovered this month. According to a statement Apple released today, the company does not release any iMessage, Facetime, Siri search, or Maps search data to any law enforcement agency. The encryption on those two formats is so thorough, […]
Michael Grimm, the possibly mob-affiliated Staten Island Republican who has ginned up the outrage machine over “offensive” art, painted some teenaged vandalism of his office as a Democratic plot, and had his campaign funding repeatedly investigated on the federal level, is up to his old tricks again. Allegedly pissed off that he wasn’t invited to […]
Vine, still the most interesting art-making mobile app this side of Glitché, has yet to see any serious competition in the video-sharing space. (Snapchat rolled out video recently, but its private, ephemeral nature makes it a different beast entirely). But that’s about to change. According to a report from TechCrunch, Instagram will debut Vine-like video sharing features […]
Yeezus, Bushwick. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Secret Squirrel graffiti by CHINO BYI on the side of a New York City box truck is nostalgic, awesome. (Photo: sabeth718/Flickr) […]
First Slava charms the hell out of you with that “Werk” music video, perpetuating the old stereotype that Slavs drink Vodka at work and then dance to electronic music inside computers. Now, he drops “Girl Like Me” — dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko’s stylish, dramatic, well-paced, beautifully-shot, crisply aesthetically-attuned silent short film that made YouTube commenters stop misspelling […]
Rhizome — “emerging artistic practices that engage technology” — has been accepting proposals for unique projects that highlight intersections between art and the internet. Artist Emily Martinez produced a very timely proposal that thoughtfully combines the 374 keywords actively used by The Department of Homeland Security to monitor your activity on social media and just about everything you’ve been doing on the […]
At first glance, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess looks like a documentary filmed in the early ’80s. Then, you realize… This could be this year’s best new film. See chess software programmers spend several days in a crappy hotel. There’s a Swiss-style chess tournament: “We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach […]
A new piece by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder allows its participants to play four copies of Grand Theft Auto IV simultaneously, gradually transitioning between each individual game environment. This uncontrollable displacement from one instance of the game to another causes a jarring effect for players of the game. At the same time, it functions as a […]
Twenty-two-year-old Connecticut resident Willian Barboza was driving through the Catskills town of Liberty, New York last year when he was pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Barboza got home, plead guilty through the mail, and sent his ticket in–but not before eloquently expressing his dissatisfaction, scratching “Liberty” from the ticket, replacing it with “Tyranny,” and offering […]
