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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Category Archives: Blog
Futurity Now: Bruce Sterling on Atemporality
Bruce Sterling’s keynote from the Transmediale Festival (6 Feb 2010) delivers some brilliant and provocative ideas about the role of the creative artist in the context of an increasingly atemporal culture. Continue reading
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Tagged atemporality, bruce sterling, history, knowledge production, richard feynman, transmediale
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Version 2010 Chicago: Sustainable tactics and strategies for communities, resources, and networks
Chicago’s Version 2010 (April 22 to May 2, 2010) is “now seeking proposals and presentations about tactics and strategies that help sustain our communities, find better uses of our resources, and maintain and expand our networks.” Continue reading
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Tagged chicago, diy, performance, proximity magazine, public space, strategies, street art, sustainability, tactics, urban space
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The amateur operators: notes on early adopters
The hobbyist culture around wireless telegraphy (1906-1912), at once intensely social — as it inherently involved communicating with others — and potentially isolating — as it required technical skills that could only be acquired outside of the flow of ordinary life — bears a striking resemblence to the tinkering subcultures that have attended the rise of home computing, network culture, and social media. Continue reading
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Tagged amateur radio, boy wonders, comm-620b, imap, susan douglas, wireless telegraphy
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Smart organic windows: MIT CROMA
MIT’s CROMA group brings together researchers from media arts, architecture, and chemical engineering. The group “aims at developing technologies and use case scenarios for building responsive, programmable, and energy-smart architectural components.” Their “smart organic window” project proposes the use of electrochromic organic polymers to enable touch- and motion-sensitive brise-soleil techniques. Continue reading
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Tagged anne balsamo, architecture, croma, ctin-599, electrochromism, mit, responsive environments, windows
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CLOUD MIRROR
I met Eric Gradman at a meeting of the recently-formed Transmedia LA group; his enthusiasm and sense of humor are as infectious in person as they are in his work. Gradman’s “uncomfortably augmented reality” project, CLOUD MIRROR, is currently on show at the Sundance festival. Continue reading
Engineering Man for Space: NASA’s cyborg study
From NASw-512, “Engineering Man for Space”; May 15th, 1963 (abstract). More: Cyborg bibliography. via @caseorganic
Fandom: An Autoethnography
This paper visualizes a sample of my own fan practices by placing them on a simple x/y grid. Based on this visualization, I draw a variety of provisional conclusions regarding a) the role of fandom in my life in general; … Continue reading
NYC LCD billboard graffiti
The magic of cardboard. The mythos of Star Fox. More info: http://www.bladediary.com/ (via Urban Prankster) Posted via email from remotedevice’s posterous