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Refugee Republic is an interactive transmedia documentary about everyday life in Domiz Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq.

The aim of the makers, artist Jan Rothuizen, multimedia journalist Martijn van Tol, photographer Dirk Jan Visser and webdeveloper Aart Jan van der Linden, is to enrich the existing image of refugee camps by building an anatomical sketch of everyday life in the camp, through a combination of drawings, film, photography, sound and text to create a sensory experience.

The interactive documentary, produced by Submarine Channel and De Volkskrant, premiered at the Amsterdam documentary festival IDFA on 20 November 2014. The Dutch version was released online on 28 November 2014 on De Volkskrant website together with a six page special in De Volkskrant newspaper. Simultaneously, OneWorld magazine published the documentary online as well as in a six page print publication in its monthly magazine.

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Microsculpture - The insect photography of Levon Biss. Process is fascinating by its complexity. 

https://vimeo.com/157712307

More information about the project and collaboration with Oxford University Museum of National History.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/08/microsculpture-exhibition-insects-photography-levon-biss

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Cristina de Middel's Little Red Book

The Spanish photographer reworks Mao's bible of communism for a new generation of Chinese. Interview with the artist http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/19033/1/photographer-cristina-de-middel-reworks-mao-little-red-book-for-party 

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Little Red Book

A book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution

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The Mars One organization has proposed to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

Curious interviews with the participants selected from more than 200,000 applicants, the 50 men and 50 women are a step closer to taking part in the one-way mission.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/17/mars-one-shortlist-the-top-10-hopefuls

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Simon Menner’s new book Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archives examines the vast collection of information and photos once gathered by the East German secret police. While coincidental, the timing couldn’t be better as news about the NSA surveillance program continues to dominate headlines.

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/stasi-archives/

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Iris Recognition exposed

A German hacker who rose to fame after hacking Apple's TouchID and recreating the German defense minister's thumbprint from a high-res image, has revealed a method where iris images taken from a distance with a high-resolution camera can be recreated with a laser printer.

https://www.scmagazineuk.com/starbugs-in-your-eyes-german-hacker-spoofs-iris-recognition/article/535281/

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1570: Map of Europe in the shape of a queen.

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With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life.

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André Malraux (1901-1976) was a French art historian, philosopher and cultural politician. In his work, Malraux describes how the art museum – despite being a modern invention – has obtained the status of being the proper home of art today. It is within the museum that artworks of different styles can be compared, and it is through this comparison that the nature and quality of individual work of art presents itself.

https://culturalvirtualspaces.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/malraux-and-the-musee-imaginaire-the-museum-without-walls/

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Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.[1] Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing

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The Aleph

“The Aleph” is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. In Borges’ story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universefrom every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion.

Full story is here:

http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/borgesaleph.pdf 

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The Way Things Go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It documents a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine.

The art installation was in a warehouse, about 100 feet long, and incorporated materials such as tires, trash bags, ladders, soap, oil drums, old shoes, water, and gasoline. Fire and pyrotechnics were used as chemical triggers. The film is nearly 29 minutes, 45 seconds long, but some of that is waiting for something to burn, dissolve, or slowly slide down a ramp. The film is presented as a single sequence of events, but careful observation reveals over two dozen film edits

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Camouflage from face detection.

CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition. 

https://cvdazzle.com