boranj


bor • anj | ‘bôrənj; ‘bär- |
adjective

1. having the qualities of an inelegant iterative step that works
    but will eventually be replaced by something better.
2. of or like an evolutionary step.
3. having both functional and awkward qualities.

‘boranj’ is a study in the spread of ideas; an experiment in cultural evolution and idea (or meme) penetration.
We want to see if and how a word can spread from nothing into ubiquitous acceptance, so we created ‘boranj.’



activist, epistemology, ideas, memes

Sébastien Cliche :: A Place Where You Feel Safe




compassion, digital poetics, ideas

mizz chris sugrue

Delicate Boundaries

“Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.”



augmented, ideas, installation, interactive, video



ideas, neurophilosophy, theory



ideas, web 2.0

Mark Tansey



art, gender, ideas, war

Public

“The computer as confessional, storytelling machine.”



art, culture, ideas, journal, online

Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, “THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD”

Lewis Fry Richardson’s answer to the question of creative thinking by machines is a circuit diagram, drawn in the late 1920s and published in 1930, illustrating a self-excited, non-deterministic circuit with two semi-stable states, captioned “Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas.”



creativity, god, ideas, mind, schematic, thought, will