.. and sozializing via GPS …
via near near future comes a tool Rebecca Anema has developed: Social GPS – a J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database to create a social map for the people connected to it. Read Morevisualizing social networks – past and now
danah boyd published information on vizster, a project she developed together with jeffrey heer which allows people to use a playful mode of ethnographic exploration based on the Friendster social networking service. Another interesting appliance is provided by Paul Mutton utilizing visialization modes to show networking structures in Shakespeare‘s plays. It uses a tool designed […] Read Moregiving shape to information space
Considering the invisble net of data which influences the constructions of perceptible areas of each of us, searchscapes, a work by Juliana Sato Yamashita, tries to establish a tridimensional map of Manhatten relying on data obtained through the web. The objective is to compare representations of the city’s “physical spaces†and “information spacesâ€. Taking the […] Read Moreephemeral situation
… a short comment by taking the article The Rise of the Ephemeral City (via) quite literally: Living in the ephemeral situation in the special case of Berlin is described as sexy and poor: admired, but no one takes you seriously anymore ; ) .. yes, I agree .. it feels like this here … […] Read Moreon: Organization and Representation of Violence
Under Fire was a one year long ongoing mailinglist project initiated by Jordan Crandall with invited participants (among them Susan Buck-Morss, Brian Holmes, Eyal Weizman .. and many others) discussing the role that representations play as registers of symbolic meaning and as agents of affective change. The online event was accompanied by a symposium and […] Read Moreinvention of the unreal
I got attracted by discovering the novel La invencion de Morel (1940) by the Argentinean author Adolfo Bioy Casares. It is the description how an anonymous fugitive arrives at a desert island and has to realize that a mysterious group of ‘characters’ suddenly appear on the island. The narrator tries in vain to come into […] Read Morethe corporation
.. as in germany the anti-capitalism discussion suddenly became ‘salonfähig’ / ‘presentable’ within the official political scene (for whatever reasons) it might be helpful to look at it in a more global relation. The film ‘The Corporation‘ presents an evolution of the conceptual terminology corporation from the 19th century up to now and includes interviews […] Read Moremarginalized voice
… taking up the viewpoint of a person whose voice would be marginalized … is according to filmaker J.Maston the subject of his project Maria full of grace. His film is said to be based on a 1000 stories listened to during the research period and picks up a detailed authenticity which looks like one […] Read More
… / nevertheless some progress
trying to update here .. thus there might be some changes, switches, flaws ..etc.. in interface appearance .. so far front page there / but only on firefox so IE and ….. still sorry for the bug on mac … UPDATE: archives almost done and info to follow … at least it looks like I […] Read More
living in paradox
ars electronica plans on the Hybrid: Hybrid–living in paradox (programmatic statement) Hybrid […] in biology […] has two meanings. The first meaning is either the offspring of two different species, or of two different genera. The second meaning of “hybrid” is crosses between populations or cultivars (“cultivated varieties”) of a single species. Hybrid — made […] Read More
embodiment in autosummarizing
Our economic and social reality is defined less by material objects that are made and consumed than by co-produced services and relationships... this is one part of the autosummarized text, while the following quote is an excerpt from the longer post published at go-one (uber.tv) titled autosummarize before the action of the software took place. […] Read MoreDocumentary Campaign
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