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Auger Loizeau : Blog: PhD viva presentation
Auger Loizeau : Blog: PhD viva presentation augerloizeau: Now that it’s all over I thought I’d post the slides from 15 minute presentation I gave as part of the viva. It’s extremely difficult to distill 4 years of work into 15 minutes but I think it reasonably sums up the thesis. In a thesis about…
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Auger Loizeau : Blog: PhD viva presentation
Auger Loizeau : Blog: PhD viva presentation augerloizeau: Now that it’s all over I thought I’d post the slides from 15 minute presentation I gave as part of the viva. It’s extremely difficult to distill 4 years of work into 15 minutes but I think it reasonably sums up the thesis. In a thesis about…
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shrinkrants: Europe: “all your medical data belong to us” | ENOUGH! This train has already left the station, but the critique/worry below makes me think of Foucault’s prescience. This is surely a manifestation of the more oppressive aspects of biopower. cultureofresistance: By Kaatje36 | 12 december 2012 | Source: Europe: “all your medical data belong…
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shrinkrants: Europe: “all your medical data belong to us” | ENOUGH! This train has already left the station, but the critique/worry below makes me think of Foucault’s prescience. This is surely a manifestation of the more oppressive aspects of biopower. cultureofresistance: By Kaatje36 | 12 december 2012 | Source: Europe: “all your medical data belong…
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STUDIO 630: Mobile games that change culture: Anne Githuku-Shongwe
STUDIO 630: Mobile games that change culture: Anne Githuku-Shongwe “We are limited by our own beliefs.” Prosperity isn’t something that can simply be bought, says Anne Githuku-Shongwe. In this talk, she presents her mobile games, designed to instill South African youth with progressive values and a drive to succeed. (Filmed at TEDxSoweto)
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Unknown Hipster in conversation with a Cistercian Monk
Unknown Hipster: I’m amazed that being monks you had the idea to choose John Pawson. Monk: One of us had wandered into the Calvin Klein store in New York, which had been designed by John. It was so pure, nothing distracted from the product, it was shopping taken to a religious level. Wouldn’t it make…
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“Tokyo Garage” by Scott Rettberg
“Tokyo Garage” by Scott Rettberg floresuprm: As the story goes, when Nick Montfort published “Taroko Gorge” in his website in early 2009, his longtime friend and creative collaborator Scott Rettberg decided he would take the structure of the work and invert it, so he changed the dataset for the variables, modified the formatting of the…
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“Tokyo Garage” by Scott Rettberg
“Tokyo Garage” by Scott Rettberg floresuprm: As the story goes, when Nick Montfort published “Taroko Gorge” in his website in early 2009, his longtime friend and creative collaborator Scott Rettberg decided he would take the structure of the work and invert it, so he changed the dataset for the variables, modified the formatting of the…
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I used to believe that time was the most important thing I have, but I’ve come to believe differently. The single most valuable resource I have is uninterrupted thought. adam brault: I quit Twitter for a month (via courtenaybird) Paul Higgins: Going to do the same thing for 4 weeks starting Dec 17th (via emergentfutures)…
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MoMA is not transforming into a moderne video arcade per se. Rather, these acquisitions make up one of many recent curatorial initiatives seeking to preserve some of the there-one-year-gone-the-next design forms of the late 20th and early 21st century, from KidRobot’s Munny toy to the ubiquitous @ sign. Although some might caution that MoMA is…