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Hyped: The Week In Links 10/21

Busy week? Here’s some things you may have missed.

Maybe you were aware or maybe you weren’t, but we had our New York event in DUMBO last weekend, so there have been plenty of pics from the fest on the blog this week. You can check out the bands and the installations if you couldn’t make it, or you just want to relive it. Also this week, stare-champ Marina Abramović was up to her old tricks, but this time with added brainwave scanning. Now that Jobs is out of the picture, Microsoft revealed their latest attempt at taking on the mobile market, a wearable device that turns any surface into a touchscreen. Also we looked back at the cosmic being that was Sun Ra and we spoke with expert kludgers and GLTI.CH Karaoke founders Kyoung Kim and Daniel Rourke.

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And here’s some interesting stuff we came across on the web…

· Fashion, sculptures or some mutant hybrid of both? The designs (above) from Iris van Herpen's—she designed the dress Bjork wears in her “Moon” music video—Capriole collection are pretty far out in the prêt-à-porter fashion stakes. But maybe that’s what happens when you create “a new direction of couture that combines fine handwork techniques with futuristic digital technology.”

· The Vinyl Arcade seems to encompass just about everything from noise art to sculpture to sports providing a “participatory play-set that combines vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports into a video game played within a real world setting!” Now who doesn’t want that in their life?

· Filmmaker Spike Jonze moves into the arena of stop-motion animation in his new tragicomic short film Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), set on a shelf in a Parisian bookshop.

· Whether the singularity is just around the corner or not, those robots are going to need to know how to dance. If nothing else, then at least so they can steal the affections of the human women and thus set in motion their ascendency and man’s decline. Researcher J. Anderson Mills is helping them learn how to cut some shapes on the dancefloor by teaching them to hear percussion the way us humans do.

· German theatre group, machina eX, stages real life point-and-click adventure games, merging gaming, theatre and interactive installations. Only thing is, it does mean you’ll have to get off the sofa and go outside.