January 2012
72 posts
Navigating the Everyday: artlaboratory -berlin.org... →
Since 2003 and 2007 respectively, Daniel and Sophia have been recording every journey they make every day using GPS devices. Additionally all areas of their digital communication (e.g. mobile phone text messages) are evaluated and processed artistically. Their work represents an artistic research by means of a digital archiving of their movements.
Over the years this practice has become part of...
Modern Literature | Futility Closet →
Henry Ant was thirsty. He walked over to the river bank where his good friend Bill Bird was sitting. Henry slipped and fell in the river. He was unable to call for help. He drowned.
Complicity with Anonymous Media « Machinology →
Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments alive, burrowed by rats, worms and archaeologists? We can call this investigation new materialist because it believes in agency...
VEN VOISEY : projects : Ghost Radio →
True ghost stories and paranormal experiences are gathered through individual conversations, spirit communication attempts, telephone messages, radio technology experiments, found audio clips, social media sound fragments… What I have discovered is that ghosts are everywhere, and disembodied individuals and energies seem to be present in increasing numbers. Belief systems and skepticism...
Facebook Page Performance Art Glitchr Purposefully... →
Zakas essentially “paints” with Unicode, combining its non-character entities to break layout engines — creating what might just be society’s most obscure and recent art form.
“These symbols, intruding up and down, are made by combining lots of diacritical marks,” says Zakas, “You can see the variety of them there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic. Yes, It’s a kind of art. There’s quite a...
The Atemporality of “Ruin Porn” – Part I: The... →
They experience the spaces not only through their own perception but through the anticipated and actual mediation of the camera with which they document images of atemporal space. There is always another dimension – the image that will be captured, possibly altered, and shared, and the people who will view the image in a form mediated by their own technological devices. Photographers of urban...
The Psychology of Ruin Porn - Design - The... →
Critics accuse photographers like him of objectifying empty buildings as pretty stage sets filled with juxtapositions, fading colors and dramatic light. Those who are driven by the frisson of scampering around abandoned places, on the other hand, are often lambasted as criminal trespassers. Edensor thinks such invectives give these intrepid romance-seekers short shrift. “In the best...
Chicken grown in a petri dish - Imgur →
The Dynamic Life of Objects « Larval Subjects . →
For the last couple of days I’ve been mulling over a passage that Andre Ling quotes from Brian Massumi’sSemblance and Event. There Massumi writes,
Nature itself, the world of process, ‘is a complex of passing events’ […] The world is not an aggregate of objects. To see it that way is to have participated in an abstraction reductive of the complexity of nature as passage. To “not believe in...
Art Communication 2011 : TECHNO ECOLOGIES →
ECHNO-ECOLOGIES ART+COMMUNICATION 2011 XIII International Festival for New Media Culture Riga, November 3 – December 11, 2011.
“Techno-Ecologies” is the theme of this year’s “Art+Communication festival” that will explore how we inhabit the deep technological spheres of our everyday life.
Everyday life has become so intimately interwoven with complex technological...
Fibreculture Journal: 19 - // issue 19 2011:... →
FCJ-129 Ubiquity Editorial (Cont.) – Interaction Designs for Ubicomp Cultures
Ulrik Ekman
FCJ-130 Embedding response: self production as a model for an actuated architecture
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Karin Bech
FCJ-131 Pervasive Computing and Prosopopoietic Modelling – Notes on computed function and creative action
Anders Michelsen
FCJ-132 Towards a Performative Aesthetics of...
The medium is not the message (lecture to... →
Dear graduates,
Let me make a wild guess: Perhaps it has become more difficult for you to
say what media are - and what media studies are - than a few years ago
when you began to study them. A paradox of "media" is that, in our time,
they seem to be everywhere at first glance yet nowhere when it comes to
critical study. Every person on the street would agree that our everyday
life is permeated by...
A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume →
A Treatise of Human Nature
Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
by
David Hume
The Mobile Audience.
Media Art and Mobile... →
The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing is creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. This book tracks the history and genesis of locative and wearable media and the ground-breaking work of pioneer artists in the field. It examines changing concepts of space and place for a wide range of traditional disciplines...
Radius: Episode 18: Imaginary Forces →
theradius:
Imaginary Forces CT Room 43:01
Statement:
CT Room is a collage of field recordings taken from various online video chat rooms and instant messenger services. In many of the recordings, the subjects that chose to type responses instead of speak, were unaware that they had left…
Raspberry Pi's $35, 700MHz Linux computer enters... →
