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A wonderful project I meant to share for months. Every week, Giorgia and Stefanie, two data visualisation experts, agree on a topic and then send each other a postcard with a data visualisation. The latest: What a week with their partner feels like. Love it!
Hope and anxiety, sweat and devotion, one single chance to make it: A wonderful documentary about the New York City Ballet and the many young dancers hoping to make the cut. Utterly beautiful, and yet a little discomforting to watch.
Few people get to choose their citizenship, something that deeply influences our chances in life. This digital art project prompts reflection on identity and the (probably outdated?) concept of citizenship. «Algorithmic Citizenship is a new form of citizenship, one where your citizenship, and therefore both your allegiances and your rights, are constantly being questioned, calculated, and rewritten.» You are what you browse on the internet.
This is a wonderful idea. I’m taking this with me as I go hiking over the weekend.
It might not be great for getting dressed, but who could say no to a mirror made from rotating penguins?
I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but this story, to me, holds an universal truth about art and perception.
«A new way to talk about our most experimental, most alive, least respected art form.»
So people pay 100 million for skinny bronze sculptures. We knew that. But how come people are willing to pay such a hefty prize for a sculpture that isn’t even unique, but one of six? An interesting explainer.
«It’s bigger than color. It’s bigger than sound. It’s the audience literally inhabiting the narrative.» After reading this piece, I can’t wait to be in a virtual reality movie. Forget about 3D, that was just a superficial novelty. Virtual reality goes to the core of cinematic storytelling. «You can’t cut. You can’t fade. You can’t move the camera. You can’t pull focus. What you can do is create an intriguing hybrid of Brechtian in-the-round theatrical stuff and game design.»
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