David Benqué @davidbenque@mastodon.social
Designer/Researcher - mainly PhD diary-ing on here - prediction machines, diagrams, and speculative design - 🇫🇷➡️🇳🇱🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
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- http://www.davidbenque.com
⚠️ A schmongle has occurred while zapping one of your bloops.
🤷🏻♂️: cancel all three services
@davidbenque #dat site set up!
Future Perfect @ Data & Society Research Institute livestreaming now
https://hooktube.com/3UE81w5DAjQ
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We will be revisiting the Panama Papers database, thinking about the politics of missing data (e.g. the luxury of *not* having your name recorded with your bank account), and filling in the gaps with... whatever we want! We will be using a curated list of the best company names in the database as design briefs, and producing a peer-to-peer website publication.
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I'll be running Entities of Interest at the Design Museum in London on 17th June: a workshop facilitated by participants of the MA Graphic Media Design (MAGMD) course at LCC. This is part of (Re)distributed Media: Leakage, curated by Paul Bailey , Design Museum, and MAGMD.
📅 17th June, 2pm to 6pm, Design Museum
💰 £25 - members £20, students/concessions £15
Bookings: https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/talks-courses-and-workshops/redistributed-media-leakage
sloppy 3D modelling 👍
I'll be presenting "Speculative diagrams: plotting to reclaim algorithmic prediction" with Betti Marenko at the British Museum on Sunday, part of #raiart2018 Art, Materiality and Representation
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php?module=panels&PanelID=6119
Peak Vape
Unicode may soon get 2,000 hieroglyphics
“You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs”
🃏Wildcard Question:
Does anyone here into #cgi #rendering #pbr know of a way to visualise a single light ray's bounces in a render? something like the image attached. Could be a #blender script, plugin, research paper, anything!
RCA: The SHOW is in 8 weeks, submit your images NOW! have you thought about patent applications?! and funding rounds?
Goldsmiths:
💡 Add some lines to your #PhD outline for that "yea I totally know what I'm doing" look.
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Georgina Voss performing tonight in 🇳🇱 :
'Resonance' exploring the narratives, salesmanship, and cult status around notions of 'innovation' and 'inventors'. TAC, Eindhoven; Fri 4th May, 7pm.
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/gsvoss/status/990878262564925440 (with an FB link inside)
Also got the Pi set up on the home network. Ready to receive the beast and crunch horoscopes all day. It's all happening. #everythinghappenssomuch
I've been enjoying the Hydrogen package for interactive coding in Atom. Half way between a notebook and an IDE. Great for messing around and then either put in production or export as notebook to write it out.
Fully automated the cover of The Monistic Almanac today
$ sh make-cover.sh
and boom:
