FutureMe.org




collaborative, narrative, netart, new media

The Architecture of Listening



“MEDIA DETERMINE OUR SITUATION” writes the German theorist Friedrich Kittler, imagining a world where human perception and being are replaced by archives, code, systems, and networks. This is not the stuff of science fiction—to be unleashed on us in some distant future—but rather the present. — Chris Salter



academia, new media, simulation



history, new media, theory



cyberculture, epistemology, new media, theory, web 2.0


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art, gallery, installation, new media

The Krokers

“The speed of technological change is transforming contemporary society. In a global culture driven forward by dramatic developments in technology, seemingly no aspect of politics, culture and society is left undisturbed.”



new media, posthuman, theory

F.I.L.E



digital poetics, new media, sao

CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss – Home



bliss, curatorial, new media, upstart

transmediale.07 / Home

unfinish! investigates artistic processes that are open to change and reversal of decisions.
unfinish! is the battle cry and the curse of digital work that knows no conclusion, but only consecutive versions. A paradigm of digital culture?

Are you ready to unfinish your world?

transmediale.07 / Keynote: Stelarc

An ear has been surgically constructed on his arm. The intention with this soft prosthesis is to wirelessly connect it to the internet to enable it to become a listening device for remote others. Stelarc considers the ear prosthesis not as a sign of physical malfunction, but rather as a symbol for an additional feature – not a sign of loss but rather a symptom of excess. Thus he tries to amplify the forms and functions of the human body, exposing its obsolescence and producing a human-machine-hybrid which questions the notion of the architecture, engineering and operation of the human body.



digital poetics, festival, new media, variation

On February 1, Toppan Printing unveiled new nanotext printing technology for inserting microscopic text into holographic images.
[Source: Pink Tentacle]



ink, nano, new media, pink

Videotage — Writing Machine Collective 2nd edition

The following is not a dream… You walk by a desk, or you touch upon a desk surface by accident…and the desk starts to type itself. You walk by an ordinary stand-up lamp and a voice, half-human, half-machine, chants something almost comprehensible but not quite.



digital poetics, generative, new media, poetry, writing