Lecture notes

My sketchy notes form the lectures below, please feel free to edit the post and add or correct, if you feel this is useful. The links should all work. Please note there are no notes for Leah Heiss's lecture. I found it fascinating, but not so relevant to my work.

Dr Lucas Ihlein http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/about/

communication, message transmission

The Information James Gleick http://around.com/

Limited system of communciacation, built in redundancy:

longer to transmit, allows listener to catch up

dialogue the most exciting element of the practice – work which captures the dialiogue

Robert Morris – Box With the Sound of its Own Making http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=529

Russell Davies – post digital: goes beyond digital infrastructure and analogue nostalia – combines

integrates media in the same way that real people do

“post-digital fieldwork”

Lizzie Muller

Future Scenarios and Speculative Objects

humans <> technology: love

loathe

desire

fear

POWER (more than we deserve)

master and slave

revolt?

(Frankenstein)

Adam and Eve, Prometheus – SciFi?

Tech = modern/new?

= as old as humanity

we have co-eveloved with technology

“first we make our technologies then they make us” - paraphrase Churchill

What do we want technology to do to us?

Do we want something else?

John Dewey - Art – the work of art - helps us to adapt to change, reorientate

New forms of art reflect a change in circumstances, rate of change is accelerated by digital technology

New relationships to technology: digital natives/immigrants

We don't seem to be in the future – technology is destroying the future, fuel hungry...

Futurology – research, battleground: IPCC

Shell

methodologies of future making

permaculture

scenarios

...

vested interests

Power of narrative

dramatise the consequences

persuading stakeholders

ideological

what role for art?

Sci-fi stories told throughout the corporate and political world

speculative fiction <> speculative objects

provokes thought about our relationship to technology and propose alternative futures (+past)

Cloudbusters – recreating discredited technologies (hauntology?)

Wilhelm Reich – Orgon Energy

geotechnology?

Deborah Kelly, collages, impossible creatures and scenes, transfiguaration of human form through technologies

Influences by Firestone (feminist) move beyond reproduction: subjugates

Contemporary Science gestate human outside human body

Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene, period humans inhabit the earth – rewilding

Willoh Willhelm - http://aphids.net/

“Nonsense is mankinds' greatest freedom against the oppression of circumstance.” - Aldous Huxley

Flaubert: “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity”

utopias ossify and explode

how can we collaborate and nourish utopian impulse

investment is the work

failure is interesting, obsessed with positive self-regard - “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Beckett

institute-of-failure.com - http://www.institute-of-failure.com/mattEssay.html

Anne Bogart – Embarrassment (PDF)

'Frank Sinarta Has A Cold' celebrated feature writing – journalist failed to meet Sinatra

trans-disciplinary collaboration

tools used to make art are tools used by states to control lives

Extending our Reach

Greg More oomcreative.com

graphical languages to understand large quantities of data

translation > visualisation

strategies to tie us to data in more meaningful ways

3D environments/browsing

MOMA – Design and the elastic mind

Game space – subset of the space of the real world

meta island beta (G More)

National Prtrait Gallery 9^th gallery – Second Life

Melbourne Water – Flow Motion – communicate water as a resource in communities

Aaron Koblin “data can actually make us more human” (TED talk)

DAYTUM – track your life and visualise

www.wefeelfine.org

https://pachube.com/

Happy Holidays!

Have just found that swissmiss has a whole section on Data Visualisation. Haven't had a chance to have a good look at it yet!

Stuff

Happy New Year! Now back to the 'books'...

I've just started using DAYTUM, which was mentioned by Greg More in his lecture at the Lab. It collects, categorises and displays data about your life. I think it could become an obsession. I'm recording which texts I consume on a daily basis. It was something I wanted to do with a class next year, so this data will possibly be useful. Could be a great tool to use with students.

I've also found a PDF of an essay, Embarassment by Anne Bogart,   which was mentioned by Willoh Willhelm in her lecture. Not read it yet but perhaps interesting.

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I'm in the process of typing up my notes from the Lab and including links to interesting stuff. Should I post this and you could all edit and add as a way of sharing our experience? Is that cheating?