The New Aesthetics: Problems and Polemics (Part 1)
The New Aesthetics: Problems and Polemics (Author’s note: the sand under my feet is shifting as I write this. Was in an exhibition with Marius Watz and was at the Center for 21st Century Studies with...
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Hyperconnected Bodies, the rising cloud of self-aware data
Of course it is natural to augment reality, we do it with our eyes and brains ever since perception got, in a poetic sense, hijacked by our imagination. A plethora of new apps are here to help us keep...
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Emerging Explorer
Amber Case Keynote at SXSW 2012 Reality Augmented Blog co-author and co-curator, Amber Case, has been selected as one of National Geographic’s “Emerging Explorers Class of 2012.” These are “innovative...
View ArticleGoogle Glass: coming soon to a reality near you!
Fast Company interviews Steve Lee, manager of the Google Glass project, who suggests it won’t be terribly long before we see a real product inspired by the current prototypes. “Most of the things in...
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Animal Cyborgization, from Technorganic pets to Cyber-Hyle servants pt.1
Animal domestication is part and parcel of what humans do, what as specie we excel at. Ever since the human race became a technological species (stone carving and axe grinding), the immediate...
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What is art in the 21st Century?
Occupy Wall Street AR by Manifest.AR (Space Invaders by P. Lichty) At the risk of sounding brusque or curmudgeonly, I have always felt that asking or being asked, “What is art?” has been a bane ever...
View ArticleBruce Sterling at the University of Texas Turing Centenary Symposium
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Word is, you can buy a prototype for $1,500… View the story “More Google Glass videos” on Storify
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The New Aesthetic: Further Thoughts.
It’s been months since Bruce Sterling delivered his endnote talk at SXSW, and there have been furious conversations about The New Aesthetic. If we take the replies by Watz et al on the...
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21st Century Acamedia, Come Join Us!
The academic of the 21st century is arriving and setting up camp. Their understanding of analytics, cultural and social consumption both in the meat and jacked in has a fluidity that supersedes what...
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