Tag: Information technologies
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Interview with Pavel Smetana
Pavel Smetana was born in Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia. From 1979-1982 he studied at the Arts and Crafts School in the Prague Žižkov neighborhood. He was not accepted to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague because of political reasons, which was one of the reasons why he decided to leave for France…
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CERN-Inspired Outfits Using 3D Printing And Magnets
Fashion designer Iris Van Herpen’s Spring 2015 ready-to-wear collection, Magnetic Motion, looks like it could have been ripped from the pages of a science fiction fantasy. Having previously explored the ideas of synesthesia and living technology, the designer now looks to the power of magnetic fields for inspiration. And not just any magnetic fields, either— van Herpen’s first inklings of the…
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Interview with Christa Sommerer
Christa Sommerer studied Biology and Botany (1982-85), followed by Art Education and Art Study in Modern Sculpture (1985-90) in Vienna, Austria. She concluded her post graduate study at the Staedelschule Institut for New Media, Frankfurt (1993-94). Subsequently, Christa Sommerer was an artist-in-resident at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute (US) and at…
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How DNA could store all the world’s data
[…] The latest experiment signals that interest in using DNA as a storage medium is surging far beyond genomics: the whole world is facing a data crunch. Counting everything from astronomical images and journal articles to YouTube videos, the global digital archive will hit an estimated 44 trillion gigabytes (GB) by 2020, a tenfold increase over…
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Interview with Alberto Abruzzese
[ITA – English below] Alberto Abruzzese è un sociologo, scrittore e saggista italiano. Ha insegnato presso l’Università IULM di Milano (dove è stato Prorettore per l’Innovazione Tecnologica e le Relazioni Internazionali, Direttore dell’Istituto di Comunicazione e Preside della Facoltà di Turismo, Eventi e Territorio); presso l’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Corso di laurea in scienze…
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Digital Life in 2025
The world is moving rapidly towards ubiquitous connectivity that will further change how and where people associate, gather and share information, and consume media. A canvassing of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025 finds striking patterns in their predictions. The invited respondents were identified in previous research…