America’s Change
Visualization of Obama’s Victory Speech >>> see source page .. and as it has been an historic event let’s also link to this visualization of Martin Wattenberg – the site History Wired, a visualization of a selection of objects from the Smithsonian Museum. (This was built in collaboration with Judy Gradwohl at the Smithsonian.) A […] Read More
waltz with bashir
The animated film by Ari Folman, which slowly starts to hit theaters, caused some interest at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It introduces itself as a very personal narration about a soldier’s memory loss. From the synopsis: One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which […] Read Moredi/visions
This weekend House of World Cultures in Berlin will start with Catherine David’s DI/VISIONS project, which focuses on Culture and Politics of the Middle East. The program presents a month long series of talks, discussions and screenings, surely worth to be explored – (>> program): … In the Middle East, the long 20th century was […] Read Morethe skin of the space
‘… We slowly loosen the rubber layering, the skin, tugging the yesterday into today..’ (.. Wir lösen langsam die Kautschukschichten, die Haut, und ziehen das Gestern ins Heute.) Before coming across a recent taz article these days I hadn’t heard about the work of the swiss architect Heidi Bucher. The article on her work, entitled […] Read More
minor instincts / shock doctrine
The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this. Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t really […] Read Morepicidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots
A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. … The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. […] Read Moretracing the exchange on level: background visibility
0xdb database did their presentation about a week or two ago here in Berlin, but just now they put out a bigger announcement of their recent stunning development. What does 0xdb stand for? There are different theories about this. Some people have remarked that 0xdb is the hexadecimal notation of the decimal number 219, and […] Read Morecity of collision
The publication of the book title ‘City of Collision‘ (pdf with list of content) yesterday evening at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, has been accompanied by about two hours of talks and disscusions which attempted to focus on the recent threats and consequential developments in connection with the specific spatial configuration of Jerusalem. Among the […] Read Morethe attempt to make the I(o)T* heard
is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower: 16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to […] Read Moremapping the planet in peril
Le Monde Diplomatic just published the introduction for the new atlas Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment Written by an international team of specialists, these pages from the Atlas illustrate through text and maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the world’s ecosystems and natural resources both […] Read More