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Living with the Panopticon – privacy in the Digital Age
The issue of personal privacy in the digital age is a topic many people feel strongly about, including contemporary artists. As part of Dublin Contemporary’s ‘The Office of Non-Compliance’, artist Conor McGarrigle, Julianne Pierce from Blast Theory and Victoria Tillotson from iShed will discuss the role of artists, designers and activists in creating non-compliance in...
Credit where it’s due – new Blogger looks cool
Back in August, Google said it was going to rebuild the back end of Blogger, its blogging solution. Well, it did and all we can say is well done. Very cool. The new update ‘Dynamic views’ should give WordPress, Tumblr and even Facebook something to think about. There are seven new templates and they all...
‘All human life is there …’
Facebook’s changes and additions (announced at f8) were big, much bigger than many expected. The Open Graph includes all kinds of apps to do with one’s lifestyle – media, movies, music, TV, news, books and more. Lifestyle apps will mean Facebook users can keep track of every tiny detail of their lives and share all...
Metro Herald produces Augmented Reality newspaper
Metro Herald and 3e’s fyi. programme have teamed up to introduce ‘blippar’ into the Irish market and produce “the world’s first Augmented Reality-enabled newspaper”. For this week, Metro Herald will produce five ‘smart editions’ of the augmented reality-enabled newspaper, where the blippar technology has been used across selected editorial content and advertising. In partnership with...
Snap and tweet with Dublin Contemporary app
The Dublin Contemporary 2011 app is now available for free download for both Apple and Android smartphones. It offers a definitive guide to Dublin Contemporary 2011 by providing full details of the 114 artists exhibiting, the venues and locations, along with an interactive artist guide to use while browsing the exhibition. The app will also...
Blackrock to host its first ever Animation Festival
Details of this year’s Blackrock Festival have been announced. The south Dublin town by the sea is hosting its first Animation Festival on Saturday 27th August. The Blackrock Animation Festival will include free screenings of animation shorts and films at a mobile cinema in the car park of Frascati Shopping Centre. The new Terry Gilliam...
Festival dreaming – summer coming to a close
Here at Digital Times we are casting our minds back to the recent Castle Palooza festival in Tullamore. With Electirc Picnic just around the corner and a number of boutique festival tents already packed away for another year, we thought a link between digital and the indie music scene appropriate. The Carphone Warehouse sponsored the...
Co-founders of LinkedIn and YouTube to speak at #dws7
The co-founders of YouTube and LinkedIn the keynote speakers at October’s Dublin Web Summit (#dws7). Jawed Karim, who was just 26 in 2005, when he co-founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Karim met the two while they were working in PayPal. In 2006, when Youtube was sold, he earned over $65m from his...
Live at the Marquee in Cork with the Vodafone Collective
To mark its partnership with ‘Live at the Marquee, Cork,’ Vodafone commissioned the Vodafone Collective @ Live at the Marquee – a group of digital artists, illustrators and graffiti artists – to produce ‘Live Artistic Interpretations’ of highlight performances. Artists such as Imelda May, Bell X1 and Fleet Foxes had their performances reviewed in ‘art...
‘Deal with him Hemmingway, deal with him’
As Stephen Dedalus said in Ulysses, “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” Happy Bloomsday.
What makes us buy, lie and spy online?
People act differently online, they portray themselves in a different light. According to a recent survey conducted by parenting organisation Kidscape, 53.7% of 2,373 children ages 11-18 said they portray themselves at least somewhat differently online, in comparison to everyday life. A new field of study, cyberpsychology, attempts to explain why this dynamic exists. Cyberpsychology...
Animation festival for Blackrock, Dublin
The Blackrock Animation Festival and Competition has been announced. Organised by the Blackrock Business Network (Dublin) and supported by the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Design and Technology (IADT), the festival will include screenings and award presentations. The festival events will take place on Saturday 27th August. The purpose of the animation festival and competition is...
