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• JR in the favelas of Rio

  26Aug
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  We’ve been unabashed fans of JR’s for years, but this latest
  project, shot in the favelas of Rio is our favorite. The manner in
  which the photographs blend in with the landscape is absolutely
  stunning.

  

  

  

  More here.

• manifesta7, The Rest of Now

  26Aug
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  Tantalum Memorial - Residue,
  by England-based Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, and Matsuko Yokokoji,
  is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result
  of the coltan wars in the Congo.

  Coltan is the
  colloquial African name for columbite-tantalite, a metallic ore which
  is mined for the metal tantalum - an essential component of consumer
  electronics products such as mobile phones and computers. The demand
  for tantalum makes it highly valuable. Analysts say that the international demand for coltan is one of the driving forces behind the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the presence of rival militias in the country and, indirectly, the disappearance of gorillas from the area.

  

  More images of the installation. Photo
  on the homepage: Graham Harwood, Richard Wright and Matsuko Yokokoji @
  Manifesta 7, The Rest of Now, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 2008.

  Manifesta 7 - the European Biennial of Contemporary Art runs until November 2, 2008 in Trento, Fortezza, Rovereto and Bolzano.

  

• solving Sudoku with dpkg

  26Aug
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  Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic
  contained in Debian’s package dependency resolver: solving sudoku
  puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the sudoku
  puzzles themselves. Update: 08/24 02:51 GMT by T : Hackaday just ran a
  story that might tickle the same parts of your brain on a game played
  entirely with MySQL database queries.

  

  Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  

• making statements with videogames

  26Aug
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  You may have heard about the recent controversy at the Leipzig Games
  Conference over a modification of Space Invaders in which the invaders
  are slowly demolishing the World Trade Center. The creator intended it
  as an artistic expression, but has since removed the game, saying, “it
  was never created to merely provoke controversy for controversy’s
  sake.” Kotaku took this occasion to ask whether “statements” can and
  should be made via video games, and how it affects the ongoing question
  of whether video games should be considered art. “The entire issue begs
  comparisons to Danny Ledonne’s Super Colombine Massacre RPG!, an
  unsettling and involved title that tasks players on the most basic
  level with acting out the 1999 Littleton, Colorado school shooting in
  the role of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Ledonne told the
  Washington Post that his intention with the title was never to glorify
  the tragedy, but to ‘confront their actions and the consequences those
  actions had.’ Like Stanley’s Invaders!, Ledonne and his title stopped
  short of providing a direct interpretation - neither artist has been
  especially specific about ‘what it means,’ or in instructing players on
  how they should interpret their work or what ‘message’ should be taken
  away.”

  

  Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• A veritable “garden of forking paths”.

  26Aug
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