Download and Play Elysium (beta version – mac/pc/linux compatible)

The game was developed during  the 48 hour Art Hack Day 2013, hosted by 319 Scholes, where artists and technologists developed speed projects responding to the theme of God Mode – facilitated by Lindsay Howard, Olof Mathe, and Igal Nassima

“In my Father’s house are many rooms; I am going there to prepare a place for you.” John (14:2)

“In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds, By crystal streams, that murmur thro’ the meads: But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend; The path conducts you to your journey’s end.” This said, he led them up the mountain’s brow, and shows them all the shining fields below. They wind the hill, and through the blissful meadows go.”  Aeneid (6.641)

Produced and edited by Jonathan Minard

Produced by Citizen Pictures for the US Olympic committee
Cinematography by Jonathan Minard and Jimmy Sakai

Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.
Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.

Produced at the Internet Archive on October 22-26, during the Books in Browsers Conference and 10 Petabyte Celebration

Produced for Random House. Cinematography by Jonathan Minard

On October 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City causing a record storm surge to sweep through Eyebeam, leaving behind three and a half feet of saltwater mixed with sewage and corrosives. In a single day, the flood claimed over $250,000 worth of AV equipment, books, and computers. Among the wreckage was Eyebeam’s archive of analog and digital media, chronicling the organization’s fifteen years of experimental art and technology.

Doomsday approaches, once again, on 12/21/12.

How Does it End? A countdown to the end of the world narrates 21 visions of global destruction: nuclear war, environmental collapse, rising sea levels, pandemics, solar flares, asteroid impacts, etc…. The countdown begins on December 20th, 2012, at 11:43 pm, and runs for 17 minutes. Gather your friends for a celebration! 

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Bio-artist / Life-hacker Adam Zaretsky teaches students experimental do-it-yourself genomics in a “vivo” lab at Pittsburgh’s Mellon Institute. Observing live embryos through microscopes, they consider the aesthetics and ethics of playing god.

Robert Zubrin, author and aerospace engineer, has the blueprints to build a colony on Mars. He and NASA Ames researcher Margarita Marinova explain how and why humans will one day turn the Red Planet green, establishing the next frontier of technological innovation and seeding the universe with new branches of life.

This video is one segment of a feature documentary, “Someday Somewhere Beyond,” exploring the history and future of space colonies.

At the Pittsburgh Zoo, Max Hawkins, a young software artist, and Michelle Farmerie, a zookeeper and primatologist, have teamed up to develop interactive apps for orangutans. They believe this software will contribute to animal enrichment by allowing the orangs to express themselves in ways never before possible.

This project confronts the challenges of interspecies communication and the potential for custom software to overcome barriers between animals in zoos and their human caretakers; helping us to understand how orangs think, while empowering them with a new set of tools.