lost in translation or the différance of perfection

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.. or deciphered as: Lost in translation points to the absence of the ideal. drain magazine published again an interesting opening article in its recent issue Lost In Translation. Gregory Minissale embarks in his essay from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker as an examplary translation of mental activity – transfered into the inbetween spaces of the lace […] Read More

lost art of screaming

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In times of delegation Amy Alexander/deprogramming.us will let you go screaming – if you download the ‘tool’ your screen will answer you … Scream disturbs your Windows interface. But it isn’t aimed just at computer frustrations. In a world where “anger” is paired with “management,” Scream encourages the return to prominence of the lost art […] Read More

.. and sozializing via GPS …

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via near near future comes a tool Rebecca Anema has developed: Social GPS – a J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database to create a social map for the people connected to it. Read More

visualizing social networks – past and now

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danah boyd published information on vizster, a project she developed together with jeffrey heer which allows people to use a playful mode of ethnographic exploration based on the Friendster social networking service. Another interesting appliance is provided by Paul Mutton utilizing visialization modes to show networking structures in Shakespeare‘s plays. It uses a tool designed […] Read More

giving shape to information space

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Considering the invisble net of data which influences the constructions of perceptible areas of each of us, searchscapes, a work by Juliana Sato Yamashita, tries to establish a tridimensional map of Manhatten relying on data obtained through the web. The objective is to compare representations of the city’s “physical spaces” and “information spaces”. Taking the […] Read More