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Negotiating futures. Design fiction

By Timo | April 6th, 2010
Swiss Design Network Conference 2010: Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, [...]
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CCD and computational photography

By Timo | March 18th, 2010
A few links on imaging and computation: I’ve concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that’s poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that’s the CCD. from CCD by Joe Gregorio. Via BERG. Cameras might allow a photographer [...]
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Curious Displays

By Timo | February 24th, 2010
Curious Displays by Julia Yu Tsao
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Parisian Love

By Timo | February 7th, 2010
New Google ad: Parisian Love.
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Augmentia

By Timo | February 2nd, 2010
Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that [...]
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Telling stories with interfaces

By Timo | January 25th, 2010
“But where does it go from here? Is this really just a micro-genre best suited to ads for internet companies? Or does the fact that we spend so much time on this stage our selves mean that it really can be the venue for more (and more kinds of) storytelling? via Telling stories with interfaces [...]
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Embodied interaction in music

By Timo | April 28th, 2005
!/images/embodied_music_cover.jpg(read more)!:http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music Over Easter I sketched out some ideas for navigating music on a portable player. I was frustrated with the iPod clickwheel, thinking about reducing the reliance on visual interfaces and how navigating music has a lot to do with language. I wanted to explore richer interfaces that combine movement, language and vision.
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Art + communication 2004

By Timo | October 6th, 2004
The final event in the Trans-cultural mapping series of workshops was organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia.
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ISEA 2004 conference

By Timo | August 13th, 2004
Going to ISEA on a boat between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn today. I am updating photographs here, and have been posting some event notes over at polarfront.
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Mobile outskirts workshop

By Timo | June 20th, 2004
Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.
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Outside In

By Timo | June 15th, 2004
Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.
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Notcon 04

By Timo | June 7th, 2004
Two things I saw at Notcon 04 and got excited about.
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Travelogue

By Timo | March 25th, 2004
Street chairs in TokyoI have been treating digital photography as a narrative medium taking sequences of photographs to suggest movement, place, stories, journeys and discovery. In the near future I hope to to link images back to places using a GPS receiver, to produce some semi-automated travelogues. There is a lot of research to be done around contextualised imagery, and about mapping in relation to photography.
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Design for television

By Timo | March 10th, 2004
Typographer.org / David Earls has covered the basics of design for television in a clear and accessible way. I have been meaning to write up some guidelines specific to (interactive) television, here is a start.
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