Digital Vasari

Documenting Digital Art and creating experiences, through new media and the fusion of latest technology.

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"The only way to understand the space is to interact with it". This is a phrase that explains the artwork "System Maintenance" made by Perry Hoberman(US). With this artwork, he won the 1999 Award of Distinction for #InteractiveArt of #ArsElectronica prize.

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Explore 360 environments? The #interactive spatial #installation "Landscape One" by Luc Courchesne lets the visitor be surrounded by a park and interact with the screens characters by voice or touch, This artwork received an Award of distinction from #ArsElectronica in 1999.

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Are you concerned about your privacy in online communications? "Plasm: not a crime" is the artistic statement of Peter Broadwell (USA) and Rob Myers (USA) that sharing secrets is not a crime. They created this #interactive installation. for the #goldenNica of 1998.

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#OnThisDay in 1983 was run the first successful test of the distributed Domain Name System (DNS) by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel. This automated process was to take over failing Arpanet and CSnet protocols because those relied on address books.
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#OnThisDay in 2009 Kodak announced they would end the production of Kodachrome color film. Once the leftover film is distributed, there will be no more made. That lasted until December 2010.

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"The Invisible Shape of Things Past" by Dirk Lüsebrink (D) and Joachim Sauter (D) won one of the 1997 Awards of Distinction of the #InteractiveArt category of the #GoldenNica prize of #ArsElectronica. Is an exploration of the representation of time and navigation through time.

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#OnThisDay in 1948 the SSEM (Small-Scale Experimental Machine), also known as the Manchester Baby, became the first stored-program computer. Basically, it stores program instructions into its electronic memory. The first program was run on this day.

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#OnThisDay in 1950 the National Bureau of Standards dedicated the SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) in Washington as a laboratory for testing components and systems for setting computer standards, and was the first #computer to use all-diode logic

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"Border Patrol" by Paul Garrin (CDN) and David Rokeby (USA) won one of the 1997 Awards of Distinction of the #InteractiveArt category of the #GoldenNica prize of #ArsElectronica. Deals with the conflict between technology as an instrument of control and power.

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#OnThisDay in 1976 the Viking 1 spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet Mars, 10 months after being launched from Earth. Viking 1 would become the first US spacecraft to land on Mars and the first spacecraft overall to successfully soft land and perform a mission on #Mars

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#OnThisDay in 1979 Microsoft BASIC was introduced for the 8086 16-bit microprocessor. Being one of the first to offer a version of the BASIC programming language for a 16-bit processor and making it compatible with their 8-bit versions of BASIC, #Microsoft helped 16-bit computing

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Scavengers by Louis-Philippe Demers (CDN) and Bill Vorn (CDN) won one of the 1996 Awards of Distinction of the #InteractiveArt category of the #GoldenNica prize of #ArsElectronica. Invites to enter the simulated world of Scavengers and to consider a robotic ecosystem
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#OnThisDay in 1997 Hackers Deciphered Data Encryption Standard, a computer code which had been designed to be an impenetrable encryption software. A group of users organized over the Internet cracked the software.

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#OnThisDay in 1911 Control-Tabulating-Recording Company was founded. Now know as #IBM was founded by the financier Charles Flint, which built trusts by merging several smaller companies to form dominant company in particular fields.

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#OnThisDay in 2014 Facebook changed the breastfeeding stance after a major protest from #FreetheNipple, and decided to adjust their stance on photos of breastfeeding mothers. Facebook implemented the initial ban on December 30, 2008.

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"Motion Phone" by Scott Sona Snibbe (USA) won one of the 1996 Awards of Distinction of the #InteractiveArt category of the #GoldenNica prize of #ArsElectronica. This installation for two users which offers a new medium for a non-verbal personal conversation.

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#OnThisDay in 1822 Charles Babbage unveiled his design for the machine he called the "Difference Engine", the first example of a mechanical computing machine. The British government funded the Difference Engine, which Babbage never actually completed

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#OnThisDay in 1993 #Microsoft teamed up with Tele-communications and #TimeWarner to start the revolution known as “Interactive TV”.

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"Las Meninas" by Michael Tolson (USA) won one of the 1995 Awards of Distinction of the #InteractiveArt category of the #GoldenNica prize of #ArsElectronica. In this installation two observation stations are supposed to tempt the participants into voyeuristic behavior
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#OnThisDay in 1967 the Soviet probe Venera 4 is successfully launched. On October 18, 1967, it will enter Venus’ atmosphere where it will become the first space probe to successfully return atmospheric data from another planet.

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