for the moment

It’s a nice short quote tempting me to take it out of its context – its ‘closed garden walled system’:In the techno-centric world, we relish persistence yet that is so antithetical to the way in which we normally negotiate the social world. Information production and identity performance are not the same thing even if …

on mapping invisibility and ‘bridge blogger’

Via Savage Minds came another mapping idea: Vanishing Point consists of a map of the world connected to a database fed by news coming from several international newspapers. The visibility of each country on the map results from the quantity of media coverage the country receives, so those countries that do not make the …

Code, Culture, Imagination

... that algorithmic code and computations can’t be separated from an often utopian cultural imagination that reaches from magic spells to contemporary computer operating systems. 1 “300,000 pages of code. Or 60 minutes of triple-X rubber-and-leather interactive bondage porno. And until you plug it in, you’ll just …

private as private can be

Last year’s winner at the Locarno festival Private, a feature film by Saverio Constanzo from 2004 based on real events, offers a thought provoking, psychological drama about a palestinian family experiencing occupation through Israeli soldiers in the limited and private territory of their own house:...
Based on a real life situation (the family in question …

re-location in liminal space

Usually I almost avoid to refer to texts, journals, magazines, etc .. which are not publicly available on the net, as for myself I experience it always as frustrating not to be able to retrace the named sources. In this case I want to make an exeption as the text I will refer to …

im-export / report from the inbetween

House of World Cultures Berlin hosts for the next few days the project Import Export (Cultural Transfer between India and Germany, Austria) which ‘aims to explore the dynamics of mutual perception in the age of globalisation’.

Today’s morning of the accompanying symposium was covered by explorations of authenticity which ended with a presentation of …

processing

.. finally processing got some attention at ars electronica:
As an innovative, easily understood programming language, “Processing” enables students, artists, designers and architects to design and produce virtual prototypes. The program can be utilized as both a sort of virtual sketchbook as well as a professional graphics program.

“Processing” is an open project that was initiated …