iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Transformation Digital Art 2026 – @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social's 10th anniversary international symposium on the preservation of digital art, 26-27 March 2026 li-ma.nl/article/tran... Tereza Havlíková @ezka-ter.bsky.social and Sakrowski speak on Day 1, on THU, 26 March, about "Inserting Net Art".

Poster with a light grey background filled with abstract, organic, puzzle-like shapes in neon yellow and pale purple, outlined in dark lines. Centered in bold, rounded dark purple lettering is the title “Transformotion Digital.” Below and around it, the shapes repeat in varying sizes, creating a dynamic, flowing pattern. On the left, the date reads “26 & 27 March 2026.” On the right, smaller text states: “Annual international symposium on digital art preservation.” At the bottom left, the location is listed: “LI-MA, Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam.” The overall design is modern and playful, with high contrast between the dark text and bright accent colors.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"I am working at the intersection of art and technology."

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 15/03/2026

On March 15, 2002, Macromedia released a vector graphics editor for creating rich Internet content and multimedia applications Macromedia Flash MX. #WebDesignHistory

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

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Bruno Guglielminetti @guglielminetti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Repenser notre rapport à la surveillance numérique. moncarnet.com/2025/11/18/r...

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Same, there is always so much crap with generated code from design software. Also, they never resize properly if you don't add the appropriate attributes manually. Let's not talk about how colour values do not play nice with CSS.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Firefox' "Enhanced Tracking Protection" is breaking my access to so many sites that I'm considering ditching the browser I prefer.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Another day, another case of IT superceding UX.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This movie is an uneven mix of 2, 3 maybe 4 things. Feels like I was watching a 2 hour short film showcased in an artsy gallery. Sometimes great, often noisy, sometimes slow and boring. Just like Pavement.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Years ago, likely in the 1970s, my uncle (mom's brother) made a mix tape for my dad. There is no track listing so I'll be using Shazam a lot I guess. It starts with "Heather" by Billy Cobham — ambiant and jazzy. Let's see where this goes!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

UX Designers: having problems in your role? Learn JavaScript. It will make your old problems seem like no big deal.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New book for morning reading. Rosenfeld always publishes useful books to manage design collaboration. The bookmark is a creation from my mom — she creates collages from old magazines.

"We Need to Talk" by Joshua Graves. The cover shows colourful squarish speech bubbles. The bookmark next to the book show small human silhouettes over a dark background with a pink hue coming from the bottom.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Consequences of removing the headphone jack from the phone.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

2FA is a plague on those of us with an attention deficit disorder.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Pocket is shutting down. Yet another useful tool disappears. As usual, I will not be looking for a replacement, I'll either build my own alternative or just stop doing whatever that service offered.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Streaming services — music or video — that hide recent listens/watches to peddle their own suggestions or their own features misunderstand their services need to be easier and more useful than piracy to be useful.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable
The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry
Nick Clegg speaking at a literature festival.
Sir Nick Clegg said it was “not unreasonable” for artists to want to be able to opt out of their work being used to train AI
DAVID MCHUGH FOR THE TIMES
Lucy Bannerman
Friday May 23 2025, 7.40am BST, The Times
Making technology companies ask artists’ permission before they scrape copyrighted content will “basically kill the AI industry

Chat bubble that says "then perish" followed by a red tinted closeup of Obama's eyes.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I have French subtitles for Human Movie, which for technical reasons were not shown at last night's screening. But if anyone else wants to show the film in France or Quebec, we have subtitles! And if it's after August, I can have a French voice over. Reach out here if interested ⬇️

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Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm (2025) — Cybernetic Forests.

A dreamlike experimental video essay using found footage, compression artifacts, and glitched AI imagery to disentangle the human mind from the metaphors of mind as applied to generative AI.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Un expert (@luclefebvre.bsky.social) préconise une meilleure littéracie numérique www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/05/18/u... J'irais jusqu'à dire qu'il faut une éducation médiatique plus large, qui inclut la compréhension de lignes éditoriales dictées par les propriétaires de médias.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

hello, yes, just for the record, I have NEVER wished for a document to suggest how to type in it every 5 seconds. for the love of all that has ever been actually user-friendly, cut it out

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So, to prevent a would-be king to take over Canada, an actual king from a foreign country will come here to address the serfs of his dominion? Fuck monarchy, now and always, foreign and local.

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CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Drawing Machines (x20) –– Collaborative robots in nature, water crisis art, maps redrawn, satellites tracked, ancient monument engraved, spray paint high pressure (random) machine, and more → ca-n.in/drawingmachi...

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Dans son livre "Humain, pour un gouvernement plus centré sur la personne", @daniellafreniere.bsky.social démontre une des complexités — parmi une panoplie d'autres — des soutiens financiers gouvernementaux. Ce n'est pas pour rien que ma création artistique est un hobby, et non pas une carrière...

Pourquoi les règles de certains crédits d'impôt sont-elles si complexes ? Certains crédits débutent le ler de l'an en se basant sur la situation courante, alors que d'autres débutent le ler juillet, pour un an, en se basant sur la situation au 31 décembre de l'année précédente... et cela au sein d'un même organisme public. Imaginez la disparité des règles des programmes entre les différents ministères et organismes du gouvernement du Québec. Imaginez celle avec les programmes du gouvernement fédéral.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Today's finds at a record store: rockin' ladies: - Blondie - Eat to the Beat (1979) - Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (1980) - Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night (1979) - Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion (1980)

Record sleeves in a grid, from top left to bottom right:
- Blondie - Eat to the Beat (1979)
- Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (1980)
- Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night (1979)
- Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion (1980)

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

WestJet, a Canadian Airline, is unable to accept accents in its text fields. The error that occurs then shows me a stupid message and a RegEx. It's 2025, I can't believe front-end developers still churn out such unacceptable non-sense.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I've been on a Steve Reich discovery streak lately. While I love "Music for 18 Musicians" and "Desert Music", I think "Electric Counterpoint" with Pat Metheny touched me a bit more quickly. Likely because it's written for electric guitar, an instrument I play.

A record cover, which shows train tracks, next to a record player

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Bruno Guglielminetti @guglielminetti.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Que deviennent les archives de MusiquePlus ? www.lapresse.ca/arts/televis...

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My annual nerd purchase for almost two decades now.

Communication Arts - Interactive Annual #31

White background over which three purple-tinted ovals show different digital experiences: one looks like a big crystal, another one a hand hovering over a vietual conveyor belt, and the last one a woman from the back in what seems like an installation.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Interesting "postmortem" on NFTs and cryptoart. Though, as someone who studied digital and media art, its history and its motivations, the focus on collecting and investing around those digital assets bothered me.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

What is it called when your neighbour tells you he didn't set your house on fire, and wants to be rewarded for that?

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Joanie Lemercier @joanielemercier.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hey CANADA ! I'm sailing accross the Atlantic next September, possibly for my only visit in North America in a decade and I want to make the best of it. Exhibition spaces, museums, festivals, can you link me up with people interested in Art, tech and activism ?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology or your problems

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In "Every tool's a hammer", Adam Savage speaks to the difficulty for makers to convey their complex mental models to others. This actually applies to every discipline: communicating a skill you perfected over years to people who do not have that background is hard.

MOCKING UP AND COMMUNICATING IDEAS
As makers, we become adept at holding complex concepts and ideas in our heads that we have our own mental shorthand for.
This isn't a problem when we are working for ourselves on projects of our own. But when we're working for someone or with someone, quite often this tendency toward internal cataloging can lead to many of the fundamentals to a project going unspoken because they've become baked into our assumptions about what everyone should already know. But it's important to remember that this kind of knowledge is not so easy for civilians to engage with and process.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"NPS is astrology for mediocre business executives." — @jmspool.bsky.social

screen capture of a linkedin post by jared spool:

Jared Spool: "NPS is astrology for mediocre business executives."

John Griffin: "Discuss amongst yourselves: NPS is stupid and for most services, is a bad way to measure ourselves. It's analytics theater. It's designed so that executives can try to measure something that is inherently intangible so they don't have to talk about emotions or anything "squishy". Trying to affect NPS is like trying to count to purple."

at the bottom of the post: a graphical explanation of NPS with a "forbidden" circle over it.

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Bruno Guglielminetti @guglielminetti.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Souveraineté numérique, une priorité moncarnet.blog/2025/02/03/s... L’actualité des derniers jours, avec la mise en place de barrières tarifaires contre le Canada par le président américain, ramène le sujet de la souveraineté numérique au premier plan.

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Someone needs to explain to me, why, on many e-commerce, if you create a basket, then you log in, your basket is then empty. I assume that, when you log in, they retrieve your last logged-in basket. But, they could check still check, and merge both unlogged and logged one. Very frustrating experienc

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Missing the days when art + science + technology meant some architect was inspired by bumblebees to make a glass cargo container or whatever instead of some AI thing using some other AI thing to do AI stuff

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Final call for the 13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (as in "the X factor): #xCoAx explores the intersections where computational tools and media meet art and culture. Deadline: 16 February xcoax.org #xCoAx2025

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Trouvailles dans une boîte à lire près de mon atelier. Ça a l'air mauvais. J'adore.

trois livres de style lecture de gare milieu du 20e siècle avec des femmes illustrées en couverture: les filles de joie, la maudite, le chant de l'inde

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Signal @signal.org · 31/12/2024

A big heartfelt thank you from all of us at Signal to every person who has ever used Signal, gotten your friends to make the switch, and donated to support our work. It is truly an honor to build Signal for you. 💙

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Excerpt from @asavage.bsky.social's "Every tool's a hammer". I certainly struggle to be my own motivator, whether it's working on my sound sculpture or conposing melodies...

you can't count on external sources of motivation to be there when you've hit a wall with a project, or you're in the dead days halfway through.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

New record find of the day. The Get Up Kid's "Problems" is a good record. Not really their best, but after so many years without them, it's fun to hear them again. They are punkish rock — closer to rock inspired by Bruce Springsteen than 70s punk or 90s skate punk in my ear.

record sleeve on the left, record player on the right.

on the record sleeve, quite a few pink flamingoes.

the record itself is pale blue.

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Mat Janson Blanchet @jansensan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

New book in my mailbox this morning! I discovered Poster Children in the mid 90s, about at the same time I did Superchunk. I don't know much about them, and I am happy to find a bout written by one of the members to learn about their history, albeit late.

"Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" by Rose Marshack. The book cover shows Marshack playing bass during a concert.

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