Our new competition is to win a set of the wonderful Artefact Cards from Smithery. It's a great prize, and we're asking you to get your pens and pencils out for it.
The lovely Jon and Ali - better known as Thomson and Craighead - have a new show at the Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London. As with many of their past works, this is a playful look at how technology and content is changing our view of our world and the world.
E-commerce behemoth Amazon is set to launch an online gallery this summer, with an official announcement being made today.
One thing I know is a new website and book from Creative England. The idea is that young, creative whippersnappers are given advice on running their business matters from wise, battle-hardened elders.
Patrick Laing is a creature of extreme diversity. Essentially a designer, but the titles artist, inventor and entrepreneur would fit just as appropriately. An interview to talk about one of his latest projects, the Flying Skirt light shade, turned up a whole host of other fascinating creations, including an astonishingly smart bicycle mudguard.
It was pointed out to me this week that, were you to click on every single link in this thing as well as reading my overblown prose, the whole thing would take you about 7 hours to get through. Look, what can I say? I'm SORRY. It's just that there's a lot of stuff out there and I WANT TO SHOW YOU ALL OF IT. Just bear in mind that no one reads everything (except me) - really, no one, not even my mum. You're under no obligation. Although obviously it's ALL GOLD.
Annual media arts festival Ars Electronica has announced its winners at the Prix Arts Electronica. 4000 submissions from 73 countries were whittled into seven competition categories, with the UK not getting much of a look in this time around.
Look at the picture above and you'll see the BERG Cloud logotype and "Made in Italy". That's a pretty good description of Sandbox, a new collaboration between the folks at BERG and Benetton's communications lab Fabrica.
The New Yorker magazine has launched Strongbox, an anonymised in-box for tip-offs, whispers and other documents where the sender may not wish to reveal their identity. Built by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen, the magazine launched the service this morning.
Nottingham-based artist Candice Jacobs is no stranger to living, working, and thinking in the in-between. As a creator and curator of art – usually with an audio visual/digital focus – she explores the meeting of worlds: art versus advertising and business, work versus leisure, boredom versus inspiration, meaning versus what is meaningless. In her latest exhibition, Dry Wipe, she enlisted the work of eight artists to hijack the wifi at Nottingham Contemporary.
A programme is under way to turn the 10-storey Peckham Rye car park into a permanent arts centre. Home to the annual Bold Tendencies sculpture exhibition, it's claimed by programme leader Hannah Barry that the new centre will create several hundred jobs.
There appears to be no limit to the interest in Bitcoin. Max Laumeister has visualised Bitcoin's trades in a new and rather beautiful project, Listen to Bitcoin.
