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      29 Sep 2007

      Man as Industrial P(a)lace

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      Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
      "Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as "industrial palace," really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced."
      The technology defines reality or things go the other way? What we see, what we talk about is what we think of. Is our idea of the man always the same in the internet times? Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) [author] via kottke.org
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      8 Aug 2007

      Techne: Art is power

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      "Technology has been a purpose in itself for too long. Technology should serve mankind, and not the other way around." "Did you know that our word for technology comes from Old Greek and originally meant “art”? No? It gets even better: Western civilization is founded on the achievements of a couple of guys 400 before Christ. 50,000 people (population of Athens at the time) defined what we consider as “obvious” or “logic”. These beautiful words are from: New Athens or What Internet workers can learn from the old Greeks.
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      16 Jul 2007

      Internet, but after

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      It was 1994, and it was the beginning of internet as we know, for now . It was an advert. It was a hope. It is still a hope. “Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.” Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931 Le Conquete de l’ubiquite [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY]
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      15 Jun 2007

      Avatar of Me

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      Researches about happiness tell us that Westerns are unhappy because money, competition and technology are increasing, but relations are becoming poorer. What about to conect our Avatars? Something is wrong, John.. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0]
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      10 May 2007

      than are dreamt of in your Internet, Horatio.

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      And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' Or such ambiguous giving out, to note That you know aught of me: this not to do, So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet - Act I Scene V
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      2 May 2007

      Any time, any place (goodbye Mr. Privacy)

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      "Goodbye Privacy" is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica, the festival extraordinaire of art, technology and society in Linz, Austria. September 5–11, 2007, the focus will be on these late-breaking phenomena of a new culture of everyday life being played out between angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. Ars Electronica Festival 2007 "At any time, at any place, we’re capable of switching into telematic action mode, of reaching anyone and being accessible by all. With the aid of our avatars, blogs and tags, we assume digital form and adopt more or less imaginative second identities. Emerging at a rapid clip are completely new types of the public sphere featuring new rules of play and (sometimes even) new hierarchies. But it’s not merely technology, information and communication that have become omnipresent. To a much greater extent, it’s we ourselves: traceable at all times and anywhere via our cellphone’s digital signature that makes it possible to pinpoint our location to within a few meters; classifiable via the detailed and comprehensive personality profiles that we unwittingly leave behind as the traces of all our outings in digital domains. What’s occurring in the wake of these developments is a far-reaching repositioning and reevaluation of the political, cultural and economic meaning of the public and private spheres."
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      22 Apr 2007

      Right here, right now

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      It has been a matter of thinking for me in these days the difference between reality where the principles are right here, right now, right me, and you. And the internet: doesn't matter where, doesn't matter when, I don't care who really are you . [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc]
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      21 Apr 2007

      Happy Earth Days

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      "May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life." - United Nations Secretary-General U Thant March 21, 1971 (Wikipedia - Earth Day)
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      14 Apr 2007

      Epilogue: An Age of Optimism

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      "I am optimistic by nature. However, every technology or gift of science has a dark side. Being digital is no exception. The next decade will see cases of intellectual-property abuse and invasion of our privacy. We will experience digital vandalism, software piracy, and data thievery. Worst of all, we will witness the loss of many jobs to wholly automated systems, which will soon change the white-collar workplace to the same degree that it has already transformed the factory floor. The notion of lifetime employment at one job has already started to disappear." Nicholas Negroponte "Being Digital" archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm
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      2 Apr 2007

      Deep Remix

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      "I believe that the "media remixability" which begins around the middle of the 1990s constitutes a fundamentally new stage in the history of media. It manifests itself in different areas of culture and not only moving images - although the later does offer a particularly striking example of this new logic at work. Here software such as After Effects became a petri dish where computer animation, live cinematography, graphic design, 2D animation and typography started to interact together, creating new hybrids. And as the examples mentioned above demonstrate, the result of this process of remixability are new aesthetics and the production of new media species which cannot be reduced to the sum of media that went into them. Put differently, the interactions of different media in the same software environment create cultural species." [complete text at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/manovichessay/] Deep Remixability Lev Manovich [fall 2005- spring 2006] (This text was written as part of a Research Fellowship in the Media Design Research programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie Hogeschool Rotterdam)
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