Weekend Link Roundup

For the week of September 18

GIPHY launches GIPHY Arts
Just over the last year a handful of creative and art-focused tech companies have launched initiatives to support artists through calls for submission and discovery i.e., Kickstarter Arts, Electric Objects’ Art Club, NewHive and now GIPHY Arts. So far they’re actually good.

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Terrific read from MIT Technology Review h/t Are.na, @rivatez

The Relationship Between Art and Commerce, as Scored by a Ping Pong–Playing Robot
Artist Jonas Lund explores the complicated relationship between art and commerce via Artsy.

Seeking New Arrangements
Internet friend, Toby Shorin’s great project Subpixel Space provides in-depth digital design discourse, experimental thoughts and other ideas. This most recent post explores the relation between people and their homes; History, fringe lifestyles, mortgages, venture capital, anomie and global cosmopolitanism.

In the spirit of This Is My Jam (rip), I came across to this jam for the first time in many years. It’s good. Enjoy.

Links I think you may enjoy. Pulled from my @tymathews and @net_dot_work twitter accounts.