“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
Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
“Popular culture is defined in part by its immediacy and it is not clear that one can meaningfully understand how it works or what it does without stepping at least temporarily into the realm of the proximate and the passionate.” April 16, 2007, http://www.henryjenkins.org/
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.
On February 1, Toppan Printing unveiled new nanotext printing technology for inserting microscopic text into holographic images.
[Source: Pink Tentacle]
