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Jul 18, 2011 • Comments Closed CÍAN NIHILL A WELL-fluffed pillow under a blanket is about as close as most of us have come to turning an inanimate object into something others might believe to be a real person. Dr Henrik Scharfe, however, has something a little more convincing – a robot, known as a geminoid, designed to look exactly like...
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Jun 11, 2011 • Comments Closed On the 23rd of April 2010 the artist R. Byrne motivated by a desire for an event that no longer existed and presenting herself as a collector of contemporary art contacted the two main galleries of artist Roberto Cuoghi for information on a ‘work’ carried out between late 1990′s and early 2000. On being told...
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Jun 11, 2011 • Comments Closed MADMEN the Bittorrent Edition is a video comprising one episode of Madmen incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent. The video has been linearly edited, no digital effects were used and all jump cuts and repeats are in the corrupted file. The video captures an episode of the popular TV show in the act of...
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Jun 11, 2011 • Comments Closed Ciara McMahon trained and practices both fine art and medicine. She recently graduated from NCAD with masters in Art in the Contemporary World (combined pathway). McMahon received a first (commended) in Fine Art Practice and Art History from NCAD. Her art work is collaborative and performative, realised through digital media and site specific installation. In...
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Jun 10, 2011 • Comments Closed The Irish Debt Info-graphic Project (IDIP) NB: There was some confusion in the past few days that IDIP was affiliated with an Irish debt audit, which at the time of writing is currently being undertaken. This is not the case, the Irish debt audit is an utterly independent entity completely separate from IDIP and visa...
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Jun 10, 2011 • Comments Closed Materials: Fibre glass / acylic / fabric /CAT scans / metal Joseph Paul Jernigan was put to death by lethal injection on August 5th, 1993 after twelve years on death row, for the murder of a 75 year old man during a robbery. “Apparently, after talking with a priest, he decided to donate his remains to...
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Jun 10, 2011 • Comments Closed Our mission is to sell 42 billion copies of this motivational poster worldwide and give one euro back to the state for every poster sold…thus halving our banking crisis debt. Buy at: grandgrand.bigcartel.com
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Jun 8, 2011 • Comments Closed Born in Neptune City, New Jersey, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University(Class of ’69). Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology but later became disillusioned and she publicly formally leftthe movement in 1981. Her antagonism toward Scientology and her public split from the church have had personal consequences. Bornstein’s daughter, herself a Scientologist,...
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Jun 8, 2011 • Comments Closed The first geminoid, HI-1, was created in 2005 by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR and the Tokyo-based firm, Kokoro. A geminoid is an android, designed to look exactly as its master, and is controlled through a computer system that replicates the facial movements of the operator in the robot. In the spring of 2010, a...
