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The Future of Creative Technologies Conference ‘08

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Some of my twitters relating to the Future of Creative Technologies-Technology workshop

I have a twitter stream, but have it protected but want to share only the #keywords. Maybe one day there will be a semiporus privacy setting, which would be nice, but in the meantime…

#foct08 JimHendler new ways of teaching? should we try to bring childrens attention to focus, or ask better questions on how best to teach 7 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#foct08, Jim Hendler “we love disruptive technology as long as it isnt disrupting us” 10 minutes ago from TwitterFox

@Eingang, but how you know the people you know is related to what you know, if you are trusted, have reputation and skill. 17 minutes ago from TwitterFox in reply to Eingang

@sleepydog made hires through meeting over twitter in his company #foct08 20 minutes ago from TwitterFox in reply to sleepydog

#foct08 content, methods of delivery , and validation, how to get quality 25 minutes ago from TwitterFox

I want something that retweets # even though the rest of my updates are protected, useful at conferences 32 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 social networking brings me into a group that I care about… 34 minutes ago from TwitterFox

FOCT08 technology is complicated, and has social and political ramifications 34 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 social networking brings me into a group that I care about… 35 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 social networking brings me into a group that I care about…(think by @sleepydog) 36 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08, management of privacy, privacy as a threat vs privacy as an rethink….. 38 minutes ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 cultural blocks on use of social technologies in schools. shortsighted? about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 crackle on the phone psychosocialhuman ‘feel’ of digital technology about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 @josiefraser knows who i am quoting at the technology workshop,but i am not…..but there are about 10twitters here…… about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 but the portion that arent are multiply disadvantaged about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 digital divides are present even in the creative industries, but what about wider community? Many are socially networked. about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 is it possible to make maps of exciting possibilities. about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

#FOCT08 creating packages of overviews of what exciting is happening in New Media, then introducing then to new areas of expertise. about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

what is the future Orson Welles “War of the World” moment #FOCT08 about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

Technology workshop: who is “real” who “virtual” where doe the “work” happen #FOCT08 about 1 hour ago from TwitterFox

The public stream: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23foct08

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A new community for newcastle geeks or pseudo-geeks

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Quadrangle, Newcastle University

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Whilst I didnt get to BarcampLondon last week, I was present at some fairly interesting conversations and seminars.

Monday night was the inaugural meeting, or pilot meeting of SuperMondaySomethings at the Beehive Research Center at Newcastle University. Whilst it has a strong focus on open source, I think the main thing is dialogue. The turnout was a pleasing 20 or so IT enthusiasts, with Pete Hindle, Derrick Welsh and I as the ‘digital artists’.

Looks to be fun, first Monday of the month, theres also a Googlegroup that is linked from the main site

Super Mondays is a strong and vibrant community of IT enthusiasts based in The North East of England. We meet up once a month for a range of IT user group meetings and some unstructured discussions.

There is no membership, no fees and no rules….the community is basically undefined! If you want to attend then just come along.

You can find out more here:

http://www.supermondays.org

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Lone Koefoed Hansen - Lost in location

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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 people getting lost when using car navigation, trying to drive off cliffs, or through watercourses. Lones argument is the there is information missing, the map that satnav is based upon is not situated in the environment.
Michael de Certeau “place is a practiced space”, people access the city in two ways -from outside through the map(not in the game), from inside as a pedestrian(situated person) . The Naked city(Deboard & Jorn, 1957) is a deconstruction of a map into the flow. This is the route description.
So there is the route description and the map, and gps navigation is a route description.
You do need to know what is happening out there.
The dream that GPS manufacturers are selling is false, It dosen’t situate us, this is why people drive into the water. Make us believe that we can be teleported from place to place without worry.

Eggpass

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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 and didn’t go any further.

Location! Location? Location!! Table of works

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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 reimagining of a place, a defamiliarisation of the familiar. Indeed a recent rise in the popularity of psychogeography, has led to a number of interesting performances and installations which seek to create new juxtapositions between the physical environment and imagined spaces.

One recent work was the remapping of Blooms (Ulysees, Joyce) walk through Dublin onto any city in the world using a web interface to generate the new walk. It takes site specificity and neutrality to an abrupt intersection. Interestingly, due to copyright issues with the underlying map data, people in UK could not use the interface for generating maps for UK cities.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis connects with an imagined subterranean landscape that underlies our own. In her works, location is neutral or sited upon a certain facility (e.g. ice rinks) as the works explore the interconnected underworld, searching for life in coresamples, icecores and atmospheric moisture.

Atau Tanaka’s work Net_Derive seeks to extend artwork beyond the gallery into the urban environment. It is based upon mobile and locative technologies.

These are but a few artists engaging with locative media. Other examples will be drawn from Blast Theory, the play of GEOcaching, Beatrez Dacosta’s PigeonBlog and FoAM’s TRG amongst others.

I will argue that location neutrality can exist in some works, but that these are a special case, and overwhelmingly location is a significant component.

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Ethical Protein at Luminous Green, Singapore

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I have just run a session on ethical protein provision for the luminous green event 31st July in Singapore 2008. Luminous Green is a series of gatherings about a possible future; about a human world, that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and most importantly – living in a fertile symbiosis with the rest of the planet.

The session went well, it was on ethical protein concentrating on meat although I am more confused than when I started. I wanted to look at a number of protein sources, but we did not touch vegetable proteins, as the group had much experience with meat

Meats place in theworld is very complicated and there were a number of issues to discuss before even concidering the meat licence. As the panel was made up of 5 self selecting people (3 from the SE Asia and India), me living in uk, we had the opportunity to discuss the complicated picture.
So, imediately it was apparent that the people in my group had a far better understanding of meat, hunting and killing than me. Three had experienced a village and hunting culture in their youth.

We also got to start exploring the meat and religion. From its diverse population, there is a majority of people that rever the cow(88%) and the minority that don’t(12%). So depending upon who you talked to, there was a completely different attitude to beef.

In other news, to save on land space, holland is concidering a pig skyscraper/farm to supply its pork.

I found the SE asian viewpoint on hunting to be rich, with the slightly controverial idea that livestock/meat is money on 4 legs for the disenfranchised/people without land. As a source of protein, its ethics do not come into it if it is the only way they can sustain themselves.
Just a few provocations…..ethical meat the supermarket way is unstainable/affordable for masses.

The Meat Licence is an interesting probe for the uk, but outside the western world, where there is a better connection with the land, it makes the idea irrelevant. For immegrants coming into the UK will they have to be licenced if they cant prove that they have been involved in the slaughter of meat?

It is interesting that these asian regions are going down the same route of industrialised farming.

From one participant, there was also a strong reaction to another law in the already overregulated UK, do we need another law?

Brian

ISEA - Aceti mediated virtual visions

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abstract Aceti and collaborators are developing a technology that can look at how virtual reality affect emotions. It is his goal to get to an experiential idea of how to affect emotions. He is actually trying to measure the responses, eeg, perspiration, etc, the reaction. This is quite a powerful idea, but one that comes into all artworks, but I don’t think it has actually been done for art at a quantitative way.

Ping

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In the PING, an alternate reality of control (Eelco Wagenaar, Arjan Scherpenisse) talk (abstract  here). It was exhibited at mediamatic amongst others. Games are about fun rather than winning. They have made a simple ping game, simple in technology, but not content. The structure is two pingpong ball throwing devices and two players, two screens, and a small bit of software.

Importance of scores in electronic art

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Margaret Schedel, Elizabeth de Martelly 117 Realizing the Moment: Towards a Continued Role for Technology in Art.

The need for scores in art has become important in the preservation of the art. Video documentation is not the work, and does not recreate the work. It was interesting that one example that was used was that 9 evenings. If there had been a score for the pieces, they may have been able to recreate it. Wish she had Variations VII has been recreated this year at AVFest08.

Margaret Schedel describes one of the works she made as part of her study and the process that is involved in making a score for this piece. She admits that of course making scores is not fun, but it is important and allows the replaying of the work, or at least the intent of the work. This may be why there are so few scores of electonic arts. Too rigid scores are almost as bad as no score.

phineous gage is a fatality of the industrial age

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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadski /Vladimir Ivanovi...Image via Wikipedia

Steven Pinker and SWAMP are really interested in Phineous Gage, who suffered from a railway spike passing through his brain, he didnt die, but his personality changed for the worse. This runs counter to the idea of the noble savage.

Matt and Doug from SWAMP talked about  Vladimir Vernadsky and the noosphere. The theory that humans have been extended by technology.

However, now we have technology based diseases.

Metahuman is the now, the reach of the internet, satellite networks. Technology that uses people without much concideration of the humans. In the conflict between Metahuman vs Human,the Metahuman corporation often wins.

Walmartathon, 24hrs in a walmart consuming. The idea of the corporate organism and by doing this action they are interrogating the metaorganism.

spore1.1, 2004
SWAMP seeks to kill a rubbertree plant from home depot (with its garanteed money back offer), it is fed by the homedepot stock value, if it goes up, then it gets watered. During a bull market the plant died because of too much water, after enron the plant died because of too little. From this they worked out that this simple system was too likely to go to extremes as it was based on a single variable. In real life, multiple factors keep organism

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