Heritage status, pixel by pixel

  1. How a demoscene becomes heritage: A reflective essay traces how Poland's demoscene navigated UNESCO intangible-heritage status, offered up as a roadmap for other grassroots digital communities wondering about their own legacy. (andrzej.lichnerowicz.pl)
  2. Ocean of Dreams: a sand-and-wave landscape of collective hope: Behnaz Farahi and MIT's Critical Matter Group turned a plaza into a living installation that projects over 430 people's multilingual hopes onto shifting sand and waves. (creativeapplications.net)
  3. Clelia's generative art portfolio: A CC-BY collection of browser-based sketches ranging from spirograph curves and church-facade-inspired modules to a billion-grain sandpile simulator and 4D polytope projections. (rockini.name)
  4. Mother, a sphere-displacement sketch for cables.gl: A node-based visual patch by wirmachenbunt pushes sphere displacement into something strange and organic, and you can crack it open to remix the nodes yourself. (cables.gl)
  5. An 88x31 button that scrolls all of Moby Dick: A step-by-step build of an animated web button GIF using ImageMagick and a tiny pixel font, pushed to its limits by cramming in the entire text of Moby Dick. (k.sosnierz.me)
  6. Digital ensembles in arts education: A new book documents a five-year project at Berlin's University of the Arts blending media theory with hands-on workshops on teaching digital art practice. (creativeapplications.net)
  7. Digital art to see at Art Basel Paris: A curated guide to tech-adjacent exhibitions running alongside Art Basel Paris 2026, from Vera Molnar retrospectives to David Salle's AI-assisted paintings. (rightclicksave.com)
  8. Making AI benchmarking an actual science: Computer scientist Moritz Hardt talks through why today's AI benchmarks are deeply flawed standardized tests that have nonetheless steered the field's real progress. (quantamagazine.org)
  9. The decoherence trap: An essay coins 'decoherence' for the pileup of incompatible, redundant models inside a system, arguing AI-generated content and code are racking up technical debt faster than anyone can pay it down. (maevyn.codes)
  10. How to train your robot: Robotics still lacks anything like the internet-scale text corpus that made language models possible, and this deep-dive surveys where robot training data might come from instead. (construction-physics.com)
  11. Google cracks a quantum computing bottleneck: A new technique called magic state cultivation targets one of the thorniest obstacles standing between today's quantum chips and fault-tolerant quantum computing. (blog.google)
  12. A voice assistant that lives entirely in your browser: Google's Gemma 4 model runs a full voice assistant client-side via WebGPU, no server round-trip required, just a tab and a microphone. (huggingface.co)

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