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7:29pm Spark![#210]
Technophiles
Artists who are drawn to the methods, materials, and meaning of technology.
* Ken Goldberg, net artist - Conceptual artist Ken Goldberg is considered a pioneer in the growing genre of "net art." A professor of Industrial Engineering at UC Berkeley, Ken combines his skills in robotics and his fascination with the social behavior of internet commu...ntraptions: bird cages in which gas flames emit the speech-making voices of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler.
* Bang the Machine - Spark drops in at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Art for a hands-on exhibit that shows how the computer gaming industry has influenced artistic invention. Dozens of artists demonstrate their cutting edge games/artworks/interactive art activities.

Swanni's 2008 Predictions: Blu-ray vs. HD DVD

TVPrediction.com - Allison Moore, December 5, 2007:
Phillip Swann of TVPredictions.com has been making predictions about TV technology issues for several years with an incredible rate of success. For instance, Swanni was the first to say Voom's satellite TV service would fail; that Apple TV would be a bust; and that Interactive TV programs would never reach a mass audience in the United States.
And now, Swanni is kicking off his forecasts for High-Definition TV in the coming year. The video commentary below includes Swanni's second prediction -- what will happen in the Blu-ray/HD DVD high-def disc format war? Will Blu-ray win? HD DVD? Neither?
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Its really not a concert. its like a giant shanti town with like 75 thousand people and if you haven't been (i dunno if you have or not) then i think you might change your mind if you went. it is kind of impossible to conceptualize unless you see what it is for yourself. it is an interactive thing where the people who come are also the artists who create it, and it is artists from all over the w... just hippies. there are hundreds of stages with music, plays, etc happening in addition to the camps. its not a festival or a concert. it is a true 21st century renaissance, and you could probably find a festival or a concert while you are there, but its surprisingly diversified and not what people think or what the media who comes in and videotapes things portrays it on tv to the masses as....