Australian researchers working outside of Australia can apply for grants to spend three months at the University of Sydney – you can download a word document of the announcement from the Southern Cross Group. I’ll need to wait a few years before […]

Yesterday, as I was leaving, my grandfather gave me last week’s copy of the New York Review of Books. I’ve never actually read the New York Review of Books before, only dug out certain articles in old issues at the library, but […]

Natasha Barrett’s Adsonore is a sound installation in the highest stairwell of the brand new building for basic biological sciences. I went to explore it today. The building’s only a ten minute walk from my home; it’s where medical and dental students […]

Perfectly timed for my article, today’s Net Art News from Rhizome is titled “Jenny Holzer meets Rafael Lozano-Hemmer” and describes a new public installation by Brazilian artist Giselle Beiguelman, ‘Poetrica‘. Rhizome’s free on Fridays, so make use of it now if you’re […]

Today I need to finish my article on electronic art in public spaces. I’m procrastinating like mad, so this post is going to be my personal motivator, like I did when I was trying to finish my PhD before last Christmas. The […]

My new computer finally arrived, and I’ve spent every spare hour creating it in my image: adding my photos, my documents, my friends, my connections, my links, my colours, my appointments, my preferences. It can talk with my phone so now my […]

The 100 by 100 Project: one hundred posts, one hundred words each. (via Hanna)

I’ve just written my first recommendation for a student. She’s a wonderful student, so it’s a pleasure, and it’s just to the faculty so she’ll get a bit of funding to go to a conference she’s impressively enough had a paper accepted […]

There was a huge explosion on the sun today which means that during the next two or three nights we might get to see spectacular auroras or northern lights here in the northern hemisphere, maybe as far south as France (47-48 degrees […]

An index of toilets in videogames. It’s in Russian, but non-Russian-speakers can scroll down to a nice list of game titles, neatly linked to screenshots of their toilets. Few of which actually virtually work, but at least you can look at them. […]