Netbehaviour's Blog – January 2008 Archive (9)

This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes' movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out. What emerges is an intimation of something that is actually an invisible process, namely reading; what remains behind is a trace of the intake of information. The result is a daily paper which has already been read - a complete and completely read Frankfurter Allgemeine, as it were. The paper was printed alongside a regular…

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Now, this is not what most of us expect to see thinking about graffiti. These are made on ruins of buildings and walls. Not the best place to display graffiti works - not many admirers in these kinda places. But still, these make a good impression and the surrounding ruins help a lot.…



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A two-day course centered on experimenting and iteratively fine-tuning urban designs with FabLab. Use materials such as frames and stencil sheets in combination with light and mirrors in order to create spatial constructs.



http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-26440-en.html…

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Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints.

Senior British police officials are talking to the FBI about an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists.



The US-initiated programme, "Server in the Sky", would take cooperation between the police forces way beyond the current faxing of fingerprints across the Atlantic. Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada… Continue

Designer hymens, a composite coat made of blended skin cultures by legendary French artist ORLAN, a brain infused with glowing moss and non-animal ‘leather’ growing in the galleries, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) presents a ground-breaking UK exhibition exploring the idea of skin as a place where art, science, philosophy and social culture meet.



sk-interfaces opens 01 February until 31 March 2008.…

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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D trees—millions of them. Now he wants to give them away.

http://tinyurl.com/2fyp4k

Need a project for the new year? You could consider supporting, contributing to, or starting an open movie. The open movie concept gained attention with the release of Elephants Dream in 2006. Following its success, the Blender Foundation is developing a follow up open movie called Peach, set for completion later this year.…

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It seems that using blogs is the best feature here for promoting web sites, events and projects. I think that everything else is probably obvious, but if anyone has any trouble just ask :-)

Hi everyone,



Welcome to the Netbehaviour experiment. We thought that it might be a great idea to bring some of the users of the Netbehaviour list to this social networking tool to see what happens. So people can promote their projects and various activities more easily, plus add movies, images and other things according to their desired needs.



We can still discuss as before but we also have blog facilities as well and we can create forums. Have fun and lets make something… Continue