Tag: information technology
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A chip made with carbon nanotubes marks a computing milestone
Because carbon nanotubes are almost atomically thin and ferry electricity so well, they make better semiconductors than silicon. In principle, carbon nanotube processors could run three times faster while consuming about one-third of the energy of their silicon predecessors.
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Interview with Freddy Paul Grunert
Freddy Paul Grunert is an artist and associate curator at ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, a research centre and museum that specialises in the study of information technology and its social and cultural repercussions, where he curated among other things, the anthology Francesco Lo Savio – Tano Festa. The Lack of the Other. Grunert studied philosophy and…
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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 Giorgio Cipolletta
[ITA – English below] Giorgio Cipolletta si è laureato in Editoria e comunicazione multimediale presso l’Università di Macerata, dove nel 2012 ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Teoria dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione. Attualmente è professore a contratto per il Laboratorio di Arte Visuale e della tecnologia. Inoltre è cultore della materia per la cattedra di…