transitlab

SInce leaving Singapore, time has become extremely compressed. I have visited SymbioticA, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Interactivation Lab, Centre for Social Robotics, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Fish Markets, Australian Maritime Museum, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Creative Industries precinct at QUT,  been on ferries in Brisbane and Sydney, and a few planes too. During this [...]

ABSTRACT The massive rise in satelite navigation devices (and use) in cars is possible because the Americans turned off the scrambling device on the GPS satellites. However, because navigation is governed by the shortest distance between points, it may lead trucks down tiny roads, or people cars through waterlogged fiords. Something is wrong, why are [...]

Eggpass Lo-fi social networking. Rosanne Marshack and Richard Valentin “On Augmented Reality-Enabled Social Network Traces of Pratitya-samutpada (Interdependence)” were tracing their social network with 12 black eggs. These eggs were simple to make, nice to hold, but at some point the paths stopped. The participants had become too attached, the eggs became objects of affection [...]

Dr Brian Degger – independent researcher brian@transitlab.org (see a picture of me at talk here) Location! Location? Location!! Can location neutrality exist in artworks? (http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/a-c/p450.html) Brian Degger This paper starts from examining the notion of location neutrality, contrasting artworks that feature a locatitive media or location independent aspect. Art in these works serves to enable [...]