The Activist East: Among Guitars And Gentrification

We’d been staying in Japan for more than 10 days, as we’d been invited to present the project by Serpica Naro at the Cream Festival (http://ifamy.jp/en/ ), even if our main purpose was to meet at last all the artists, militants, agitators and promoters of the Maydays with whom we only have virtual contacts. Among many other things, one night we ran into the protest of some South Korean workers who came in the little coffee-bar Cafe Lavanderia of the Shinjuku borough where we were having a beer; they came in full of enthusiasm, holding pins and leaflets, and they immediately invaded the room. They grabbed hold the micro of the sound system and invited us to take part in the action day, which would take place on the following Saturday in different points of the city. Continua su Digicult in italiano/ Continue on Digicult in english

Googlization of YouTube / La googlizzazione di YouTube

(EN) How has YouTube interface changed since Google acquisition? Lasse Timmermann and Simeona Petkova from University of Amsterdam  followed the conceptual and methodological framework of  “distilling the ‘textual grammar’ of a website history” and created this video trying to answer the question. —————- (IT) Com’è cambiata l’interfaccia di Youtube da quando è stata acquisita da Google? Lasse Timmermann and Simeona Petkova dell’Università di Amsterdam hanno seguito l’approccio metodologico e concettuale che distilla la “grammatica testuale della storia di un sito, e hanno creato un video cercando di rispondere a questa domanda.

Visualizing empires decline / Imperi in declino in video

(EN) Pedro Cruz created a visual experiment with Processing analyzing the rise and decline of top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries. Looking at the video, biology and social phenomena seem closer than I thought. ——— (IT) Pedro Cruz ha creato un esperimento di visualizzazione con Processing analizzando la nascita e il declino di 4 imperi marittimi del 19° e 20° secolo.  Guardando il video, biologia e fenomeni sociali sembrano più vicini di quanto pensassi.