tracing the exchange on level: background visibility

0xdb database did their presentation about a week or two ago here in Berlin, but just now they put out a bigger announcement of their recent stunning development.

What does 0xdb stand for?There are different theories about this. Some people have remarked that 0xdb is the hexadecimal notation of the decimal number 219, and …

city of collision

The publication of the book title ‘City of Collision’ (pdf with list of content) yesterday evening at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, has been accompanied by about two hours of talks and disscusions which attempted to focus on the recent threats and consequential developments in connection with the specific spatial configuration of Jerusalem.

Among …

the attempt to make the I(o)T* heard

is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower:16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to …

mapping the planet in peril

Le Monde Diplomatic just published the introduction for the new atlas Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the EnvironmentWritten by an international team of specialists, these pages from the Atlas illustrate through text and maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the world’s ecosystems and natural resources both …

future memory – the archive is hypomnetic*

As in a way I recently think a lot about memorizing, use of archiving and the point where nostalgia loses its worth and turns into an obsessive sentimental habit … this short excerpt form ’ Mal d’Archive (Archive Fever)’ by Derrida (J. Lambier commenting on Archive Fever) was a very nice find (via):In an …

displaying word frequency

... political speech has often been subject to analysis but this here is a nice discovery of an interesting application for tag clouds to visualize repetitive frequency (via infosthetics)Political rhetoric is one of the most interesting to analyse, because of the emophasis on using metaphors to convey various meanings within a speech. Our project …

X-change

Note about Nancy Nisbet’s very interesting performance project playing on several levels comes via PSLJ. Exchange will trade Nisbet’s personal belongings freely through Canada, the United States and Mexico in a commercial transport truck to emphasis on the following aspects:
•An extended cross-border performance confronting issues of free trade
•A critique of the use of Radio …