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Medialab-Prado Web Activity

By Keyvan | Published: 13 February 2010
This little applet uses the RSS feeds published by Medialab-Prado’s various web apps to show what people at the workshop have been working on in the last 24 hours. Of course mental activity doesn’t register – only wiki changes, blog, micro-blog and forum updates are taken into account. Written in Processing and PHP. Source code is [...]
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Tolstoy on Art and Morality

By Keyvan | Published: 16 December 2009
Tolstoy quote: In all his novels after Bel-Ami … Maupassant evidently submitted to the theory which ruled not only in his circle in Paris, but which now rules everywhere among artists: that for a work of art it is not only unnecessary to have any clear conception of what is right and wrong, but that on [...]
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Interaction Design and the Corporate World

By Keyvan | Published: 25 October 2009
I’ve been trying to find texts discussing the role of design and the effects of corporate influence on design (particularly interaction design). There doesn’t appear to be very much written on the topic but I did find the following texts: HCI for the Real World (PDF) This paper by Nicholas Knouf looks at the field of HCI [...]
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A* Search Fun

By Keyvan | Published: 24 October 2009
This is an experiment in creating randomly connected nodes all trying to upset the A* search algorithm by moving apart as soon as the algorithm finds the shortest path. They don’t always succeed. Left click near the nodes to disturb them. Right click (or space bar) to see how the algorithm works. Press ‘c’ to generate [...]
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Chomsky in London

By Keyvan | Published: 17 October 2009
Noam Chomsky will be speaking in London on the 27th and 29th of October. Both talks are free to attend but registration is required for the 29th October. On 27 October he will be at SOAS with a talk titled Crises and the Unipolar Moment: It is widely felt that the fall of the Soviet Union left [...]
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