June 2012
162 posts
“The computer in particular discloses a whole new range of sublime experiences....”
– The Technological Sublime « NextNature.net
Watch‘Here’s the Thing…’ is a web series which profiles people through objects in their home. Now we’re taking the show Across America!!!
(via Episode 1: Angella Cavalluzzo, retired exec. assistant - Blog - Here’s the Thing)
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WatchAugmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Space Out of Thin Air / AUGMENTED REALITY BY ARCHITECTS @ OMI (by mark skwarek)
WatchSonaur is an ambient toy for Android created by Miles Peyton using Processing and PureData. It lays somewhere between an ecosystem and a musical instrument.
The hope is that sonaur requires less attention both, and still provides a reasonable amount of intrigue.
It contains three distinct life forms and you can interact with them individually, or together; creating new sounds and visual...
“For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still...”
– How computers can cure cultural diabetes - opinion - 05 July 2011 - New Scientist
Live Chat - Dan O'Hara →
I still don’t quite see how you link skeuomorphism will Ballard, could you elaborate on that a little more?
I’m thinking, as you ask, of what Martin Amis said of Ballard, that he ‘seems to address a different – a disused – part of the reader’s brain’. Ballard often writes of tapping into the ‘archaeopsychic zero’: the primordial self, our common corporeal memory as...
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“the objects in IF tend to be more accessible as artifacts, and artifacts with...”
– Wunderkammer: The Fiction of Physical Things | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
“Only five years ago who would have imagined that today a woman in sub-Saharan...”
– WHO | Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 3
“A socio-technical system (STS) is a social system operating on a technical base,...”
– Putting people first » A huge chapter on ‘socio-technical systems design’ 