Day-Glo masterpieces are fading. A conservator and her team are racing to save them

By Staff Writer Sep. 5, 2019 3 AM Deep in a basement laboratory at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conservator Kamila Korbela peered at the moon-cratered image on the screen of her microscope, searching. […] Link

An Oral History of Lilys' Astonishing Eccsame The Photon Band

|| by EDWARD CHARLTON || [updated] This month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Lilys’ powerful and mysterious Eccsame The Photon Band, a unique collection even among the oeuvre of Kurt Heasley, the band’s notably restless songwriter and only constant member. […] Link

Hill Country Caves Reveal Secrets to the Biology of Cave-Dwelling Animals

Along U.S. Highway 281 headed north to the Comal County line, drivers can see shopping centers and housing developments that look indistinguishable from suburbia elsewhere in the country. […] Link

Every* Recording of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedie 1″ Played at the Same Time

Minimalism can be luxurious, an opulence of absence. Brendan Landis, who records as Hey Exit, has found an opulent minimalism by taking some of the most spare music ever, Erik Satie’s classic “Gymnopedie 1,” and maximizing its presence through simultaneous repetition. […] Link

Lionel Page on Twitter

This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour. What you “see” is what your predicts the reality to be, given the imperfect information it gets. […] Link

Illusory sound texture reveals multi-second statistical completion in auditory scene analysis

This demo shows that many types of sounds (e.g. textures, speech, environmental sounds etc…) can be heard to continue over short masker durations, but only textures elicit extended, multi-second illusory continuity. […] Link

JUEGOS RANCHEROS and Fantastic Arcade Join Forces with The Museum of Human Achievement

In 2011 I helped found Juegos Rancheros, an indie games community meetup group in Austin. The monthly meetups were initially meant to build interest and support for Fantastic Arcade, (at that time) the indie games showcase at Fantastic Fest. Over the years Juegos took on its own life, spawning other events, an artist’s residency program, game jams, and itself becoming a full fledged arts nonprofit. Fantastic Arcade grew too, splitting off from Fantastic Fest to become it’s own festival.

Brentwood Hypertext User's Group (January 1989)

In 2007, the Brentwood Neighborhood Software Archive team was formed. It was intended to be a community effort to preserve the neighborhood’s electronic newsletters, flopty disks, and correspondence dating back to 1987. […] Link

School & Thunderbeam

I’m happy to share that I’ll be moving on to UCLA’s Design Media Arts program this fall.

Dan Tepfer, Natural Machines Ep. 7 Tremolo

Tremolo, Dan Tepfer