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Drawing and Art: Chad McCail’s ‘Liars of Earth’ at the National Glass Centre

October 12, 2017

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From June to October 2017 the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art displayed Chad McCail’s monumental drawing ‘Liars of Earth’ at Sunderland’s National Glass Centre. Liars of Earth is Chad McCail’s nearly 100-foot long drawing, presenting a world where ordinary people can rise up and overpower the monstrous giants that rule over them. It’s a powerful […]

Sarajevo Stories: We Are Bosnia

November 10, 2014

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Haris Pamuk, 26, is a tour guide and hostel owner in Sarajevo. Having experienced the excesses of the Bosnian war for independence from Yugoslavia he knows the struggle for freedom and right of expression in the country is far from over. Bosnia and Herzegovina is suffering industrially and economically from a lack of investment and […]

Electronic noise: Glitch in the matrix

August 8, 2014

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Art used to be all composition, paint and sculpture: materials applied, carved and manipulated. Computing changed all that. Music is synthesized, we paint with light, sketch in code and reproduce perfectly. WeLove Digital takes a look at electronic art to see if it has any real substance. There is a glitch in the matrix: it […]

Maker Faire 2014: Cory Doctorow trashes DRM as the death of maker culture and open source

May 9, 2014

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Maker Faire UK 2014 was a forum for open source thinking and featured the internet activist Cory Doctorow, who warned of the dangers of installing digital rights management (DRM) into the new version of HTML5. Hear what he had to say about DRM, spying and the death of maker culture. Cory Doctorow is an internet activist, […]

Secrecy loves irony: the NSA’s agony aunt and Snowden hits the conferences

April 20, 2014

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Anybody getting hot under the collar about the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ getting all buddy buddy and exchanging everyone’s personal information and undermining the integrity of the internet, it’s time you lightened up. The agency has. I mean who couldn’t crack a smile about the news that the NSA has it’s […]

BBC Fresh: Hothouse Flower, green spaces and the lost mystique of Moorbank

February 13, 2014

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Lindsay Bramwell was a volunteer at the Moorbank Botanic Gardens in Newcastle upon Tyne. Used as a research facility by the University of Newcastle, the site lease for the gardens was not renewed in autumn 2013 leading to speculation that the greenhouses would be turned off and the facility shut down. All of the exotic […]

British Science Festival 2013: Grand Theft Bicycle and the political takedown

September 27, 2013

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Rockstar Games title ‘Grand Theft Auto 5‘ is pure box office. Every new incarnation in this series of shoot ’em, carve ’em, rob ’em, drive ’em away and blow ’em ups seems to have broken records on its release. Achieving $1 billion in sales in its first three days is testament to the game’s popularity […]

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