“The evidence now seems unmistakable:  reading extensively on the web has strong neurological consequences. To sum up this research: web reading catalyzes greater pattern recognition, increased spatial facility, and greater flexibility in noticing and responding to different information flows. It also leads to a distracted kind of reading in which (compared to print)  information is not processed as fully, remembered as long, or integrated as much into one’s existing mental schemas (held in long term memory). …  evidence suggests that the low-level activities of Web reading (clicking links, navigating websites, etc.), small as they are, nevertheless increase the cognitive load and therefore decrease the effectiveness with which information can be processed.  ”

…showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology.

” A slow rain sizzles
on the river
like a pan
full of frying flowers,
and with each drop
of rain
the ocean
begins again. ”

R. Brautigan. 1957

“By their very nature as a real-time medium,
action video games penalize the player who stops
to reflect. Indeed, no real-time medium—including
film, television, and radio—permits time to reflect
(28). The one communication technology that does
provide time to reflect is the written word…Whereas
reading is associated with reflection, television
is associated with impulsivity…
there is evidence that visual technology
inhibits imaginative response.”

“… a distinct compulsive behavioral disorder is associated with mutant microglia.”
Chen et al. Cell, Volume 141, Issue 5, 775-785, 28 May 2010

visual bookmarks
empower all
to curate everything

How To Explain It To My Parents, 90′
A serie by Lernert & Sander

Documentary serie in which 9 abstract artists explain to their mom and dad what their work is all about. Above episode 1 with fantastic artist Arno Coenen.

Enghien
Audiovisual performance, June 2009
Bains Numériques Festival – France

“… a failure of a very small fraction of nodes in one network may lead to the complete fragmentation of a system of several interdependent networks.”

Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks : Abstract : Nature

t e a c h__p e a c e__ 2 0 0 6

toy gun cast in black crayons
letter puzzle: paper pulp and wood board
variable

knitted by giant grandmothers, this vast rabbit
Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio
Artesina, Piemont, Italy
2005 – 2025

“If we reduce the interaction between human beings and computers to pointing and grunting then we miss the role of language in the evolution of human mind and human consciousness. “

“Ryeberg.com invites smart, distinguished people to select and write about YouTube videos (or videos from any other video-sharing site). Each of these individual pieces becomes a “curated video.” “

“Imagine there were input devices which could allow text to know if and how it is being read – how would this change the reading experience?”

“The impact of electronic technology on our lives is now the object of intense study, but what remains obscure is the role, if any, this technology has in shaping the ostensibly private language of poetry.” Marjori Perloff. 1994. p. 2-3

Worthing is undergoing inter-dimensional difficulties… Bears and cars and pigeons are involved, though not necessarily to blame

… 20944 poems from 1147 poets available to read.   (03.03.2010)

” … more than 12 million IP addresses were connecting and sending information to the C&C servers, making Mariposa one of the largest botnets in history.” PandaLabs Blog. 03.03.10

TOC is a multimedia epic about time … produced as an interactive DVD

two projects about the camera as a networked object. [...] The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other’s photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.

“The combination of animal and human is traversed here with a kind of commitment and lack of choice. To empower just a few, to give them a retirement they earned, why not take back these parts of ourselves and repay the care.” Kathy High

In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’

“Un chassé-croisé de lieux, en trois mouvements de caméra qui révèlent le détail de ces lieux et les actions qui s’y déroulent, mais aussi qui démantèle la logique avec laquelle nous les percevons.”

Elsewhere : Anderswo – 2009: “… a site-specific sound installation across two sites. Visitors carry small GPS-equipped computers and wear headphones. Sounds play automatically in response to their movements in the landscape … they move through layer upon layer of responsive sound …”

” … there is a fundamental requirement which the various kinds of concrete poetry meet: concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made. Emotions and ideas are not the physical materials of poetry. … Generally speaking the material of the concrete poem is language …” (Concrete Poetry — A World View. 1968.)

“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”

William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150

“Literatronic is an artificial intelligence engine that designs a fiction book specific to every reader based on her/his interaction with the system. “

“Alphabetic writing, like all technological systems and apparatuses, operates according to what might be called a corporeal axiomatic: it engages directly and inescapably with the bodies of its users. It makes demands and has corporeal effects. … The alphabet does this by imposing it own mediological needs on the body, from the evident perceptual and cognitive skills required to read and write to the invisible, neurological transformations which it induces in order to function. ”

“A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it arises from glial cells. The most common site of gliomas is the brain.”

Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement.

Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films.  “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”

Protrude, Flow (2001) (Detail), in collaboration with Minako Takeno

“Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty.”

Mark Amerika: “The most successful writer-personas now and into the future -? at least those interested in “making a living” as you put it -? will be those who can take on varying flux personas via the act of writing.”