Call for entries: Power

This issue of Drain attempts to expose the cultural faciality of power, as well as manifestations of power as simulacra, which obfuscate traditional inquiries into its construction. If power connects the virtual and the actual, how does cultural creativity channel or destabilize this connectivity? The corporate-academic-entertainment-military-industrial complex and its front-end, the global information machine floods […]

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Die peinlichsten Einträge bei Facebook, StudiVZ und Twitter

Give Me My Data mentioned in a Bild article: Die peinlichsten Einträge bei Facebook, StudiVZ und Twitter The most embarrassing messages on Facebook, StudiVZ, and Twitter (English), May 22, 2010 Read the full translation (translated from German) “Many users are unaware that their comments will be permanently stored in networks. For example Facebook can retrieve […]

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New yourarthere.net website is live

After 4 months the new yourarthere.net website and member-run content management system is now live. Thanks to Braylin and Brittany Morales, Beth Lee, and Chris Cumbie for all their hard work. The site is valid XHTML/CSS and runs on PHP/MySQL using the Codeigniter framework. All the details from our research from inception onward are archived […]

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Joelle Dietrick and I sent images this week to two international group shows at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K. and the Raccolte Frugone Museum in Genoa, Italy. We were invited to submit proposals that “could not be realized” to Sean Miller, who curated the exhibitions as part of his John Erickson […]

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“Facebook’s Disconnect: Open Doors, Closed Exits” – TechCrunch

More press for Give Me My Data, this time by Rohit Khare from TechCrunch (thanks for the note Evan.). “Give Me My Data has a more open-ended design that supports exploration and experimentation, in part because it sports an impressive array of formats to download your friend lists and other information for use in other […]

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Fading an LED with PWM and a Potentiometer

Using a potentiometer and PWM on an Arduino to fade an LED.   /* POT to LED test -> by Owen Mundy March 11, 2010    from: http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/AnalogIn —————————————————————*/   int potPin = 0;    // Analog input pin that the potentiometer is attached to int potValue = 0;  // value read from the pot […]

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