In the last two weeks I’ve seen three documentaries dealing with communication and networks. Firstly, a broad and ambitious film from Ericsson, taking on the ‘networked society’ including interviews with David Weinberger, Catarina Fake and Eric Wahlforss. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. [...]
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Negotiating futures. Design fiction
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, [...]
6 April 2010
CCD and computational photography
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 [...]
18 March 2010
Augmentia
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 [...]
2 February 2010
Telling stories with interfaces
“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 [...]
25 January 2010
Embodied interaction in 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.
28 April 2005
Art + communication 2004
The final event in the Trans-cultural mapping series of workshops was organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia.
6 October 2004
ISEA 2004 conference
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.
13 August 2004
Mobile outskirts workshop
Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.
20 June 2004
Outside In
Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.
15 June 2004
Travelogue
I 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.
25 March 2004
Selected Flickr
