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The darkweb; the deep web; beneath the surface web–the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour that implies, much of "the deep web" consists of unremarkable consumer and research data that is beyond the reach of search engines. "Dark address space" often refers to internet addresses that, for purely technical reasons, have simply stopped working. #The deep web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined world wide web". "The deep web is the fastest growing category of new info on the internet. The value of deep web content is immeasurable. internet searches are searching only 0.03%. of the [total web] pages available. It's not actually feasible to index the whole deep web

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"Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. #Americans actually are becoming less nomadic. As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census starting following movement in 1940. #

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"Reconstructivism is a philosophical theory holding that societies should continually reform themselves in order to establish more perfect governments or social networks.[1] This ideology involves recombining or recontextualizing the ideas arrived at by the philosophy of deconstruction, in which an existing system or medium is broken into its smallest meaningful elements and in which these elements are used to build a new system or medium free from the strictures of the original."

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"Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends — and when told they’ve done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school’s winning teams. #implicit learning: k. gained without awareness #rain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world #disorientation begets creative thinking. "

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Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

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Where does design end and art begin? Charles Eames, the most influential designer of the mid-20th century, said that ‘design is an expression of purpose. It may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art.’ Contemporary young designers see the matter more pragmatically. According to the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, ‘there is no longer a clear border between product design and art.’ The most recent answer to this question is inherent in the new phrase ‘design-art’. Artists like Franz West and others investigate the changing functions of sculpture and in so doing dissolve the borders between art and design, between ‘free’ and ‘applied’ creation, by allowing hybrids from other areas to develop. Designers like Ron Arad or Marc Newson are increasingly discovering the sculptural qualities of design. They are distancing themselves from a conditionality of design - namely its function and the inherent possibility of reproducing something any number of times

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THE VIRTUAL WINDOW INTERACTIVE is a digital translation/ extension/ conversion of the books. "The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft " by Anne Friedberg

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Information overload - a term coined by Alvin Toffler which refers to an excess amount of info being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the info. In a new era of globalization, an increasing number of people are logging onto the internet and are given the ability to produce as well as consume the data accessed on an increasing number of websites. As of February 2007 there were over 108 million distinct websites and increasing. Users are now classified as active users because more people in society are participating in the Digital and Information Age. #The general causes of info overload: *A rapidly increasing rate of new info being produced *The ease of duplication and transmission of data *An increase in the available channels *Large amounts of historical info *Contradictions and inaccuracies *A low signal-to-noise ratio * A lack of a method for comparing and processing

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - an English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. In 2007, he was ranked Joint First in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses. At CERN from June to Dec. 1980, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating infor among researchers. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet. He designed and built the first Web browser, which also functioned as an editor (WorldWideWeb), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon). The first Web site built was at CERN, and was first put on line on 6 August 1991.

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Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Webin 1991. When Tim began his work with Robert Cailliau in 1989 at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab in Geneva, the Internet was just beginning to emerge as a commercially available service. It lacked standardized systems for formatting, storing, locating and retrieving info. Tim solved it by writing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a computer lang for communicating docs over the Internet, and by designing a system to give docs addresses. He also created the first browser — the WorldWideWeb — as well as a lang. (Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML) for creating Web pages and the first server software allowing those pages to be stored and accessed by others. In early 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released their graphical browser called Mosaic. It had a stunning impact on the community of Internauts who until that time were accustomed to text-based tools and keyboard navigation for retrieving content. Thus search engines were born

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Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques. #CONCEPT: Dial-A-Poem - After having a conversation on the phone with Burroughs in 1968, Giorno initiated the Dial-A-Poem Poets concept, which he claimed would later influence the creation of information services creation over the telephone, such as sports and stock market. 15 phone lines were connected with individual answering machines: people would call GPS and listen to a poem they were offered from fragments of various live recordings. Dial-A-Poem, from 1969 on, was very successful. GPS used a variety of social issues, what with the sexual revolution and the Vietnam War, which would create appeal as well as shock from the reactive community.

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Internet art (often called net art) is art which uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform. Artists working this way are sometimes referred to as net artists. Internet art projects are: "projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating." – definition by Steve Dietz, former curator in new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Internet art can also happen outside the purely technical structure of the internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia in the broadest sense.

The term Internet art does not necessarily imply work that can be viewed over the internet through a browser, such as photographs uploaded for viewing in an online gallery. Rather, this genre relies intrinsically on the internet to exist, taking advantage of such aspects as an interactive interface and its multiple social, and economic cultures and micro-cultures.

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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is a Seoul-based Web art group consisting of Marc Voge (U.S.A.) and Young-hae Chang (Korea). Their work, presented in 14 languages, is characterized by text-based animation composed in Adobe Flash that is highly synchronized to a musical score that is often original and typically jazz. In 2000, YHCHI's work was recognized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its contribution to Online Art. In 2001 the group was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists. Their solo show, "Black On White, Gray Ascending", a seven-channel installation, was part of the inaugural opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2007.

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