Wildlife

At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal “avatar” appears in the projection.
For the ZeroOne ISEA2006 I will be using one vehicle with a projection of a tiger (additional animals will appear in the projection as reflections of passing vehicles and pedestrians).
Projection disappears and flickers as it is supported by the architecture. The city itself is an active partner in creating this alter ego.
We are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.

created by Karolina Sobecka

Cybermind

Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later.

This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps the most comprehensive history of an Internet group ever published, it includes detailed analyses using List members’ own words and commentary, and develops a unique theory of the relationship between culture, the problems of communication, and the ongoing processes of categorisation. Living on Cybermind illustrates how behaviour is affected by the organisation of communication, and how people deal with the paradoxes involved in resolving ambiguity and truth in a situation in which presence is always on the verge of slipping away.

artists as inventors

Using both historical and contemporary examples, this publication traces the complex relationships among art, technology and science, focusing on technological and artistic media from the nineteenth century to the present day.

World Power Systems

World Power Systems is an entity that produces artifacts and written ideas to create a sort of portal between this early Cold War era and today; to illuminate the beauty and horror, at once alien and familiar, and thereby reflect today’s beauty and horror back into visibility.

The artifacts, visible elsewhere, are obsolete forgeries. My work is not entirely visual; it needs to be felt and manipulated to hear it’s story.

The form tells a story of aesthetic design evolution; the functions define the true history of money and politics.

There will be blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927). It tells the story of a silver-miner-turned-oil-man on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California’s oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

The film received significant critical praise and numerous award nominations and victories. It appeared on many critics’ “top ten” lists for the year, notably the American Film Institute^[1], the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Day-Lewis won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors’ Guild, NYFCC, and IFTA Best Actor awards for his performance. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning Best Actor for Day-Lewis, and Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit.

the big plot

It’s your worst neurosis of your life.
It’s the most meaningless conspiracy in history.
It’s a spy fiction about your intimate secrets and personal data over internet.

A story dispersed in more than seven cities, across several media platforms and among a cluster of actors who lead a tour in some of the most poignant sentiments of the human condition. The worst obsessions of your era and your hearts are transposed onto many stages, where degenerate souls with insatiable fixations are trying to give sense to their life.

Jeff Noon’s new project

217 Babel Street is a web of interconnected stories set in a seaside apartment block. There are twenty apartments in the building. Each of the four writers works independently of the others, starting off stories from different rooms. New pages are produced by creating a link from a word or a phrase on a page that already exists. Writers can interrupt and take over each other’s stories, taking them in different directions. Month by month the narrative changes, expanding into new rooms, characters and situations, creating new pathways for readers to explore.

Daft

the electronic revolution- read again

        William S. Burroughs

        The Electronic Revolution

        FEEDBACK FROM WATERGATE TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN 

        In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has
        remained one of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and
        the word was flesh we are told. In the beginning of what exactly
        was this beginning word? In the beginning of WRITTEN history. It
        is generally assumed that spoken word came before the written
        word. I suggest that the spoken word as we know it came after
        the written word. In the beginning was the word and the word was
        God and the word was flesh ... human flesh ... In the beginning
        of WRITING. Animals talk and convey information but they do not
        write. They cannot make information available to future
        generations or to animals outside the range of their
        communication system. This is the crucial distinction between
        men and other animals. WRITING. Korzybski, who developed the
        concept of General Semantics, the meaning of meaning, has
        pointed out this human distinction and described man as 'the
        time binding animal'. He can make information to other men over
        a length of time through writing. Animals talk. They dont write.
        Now a wise old rat may know a lot about traps and poison but he
        cannot write a text book on DEATH TRAPS IN YOUR WAREHOUSE for
        the Reader's Digest with tactics for ganging up on digs and
        ferrets and taking care of wise guys who stuff steel wool up our
        holes. It is doubtful if the spoke word would have ever evolved
        beyond the animal stage without the written word. The written
        word ist inferential in HUMAN speech. It would not occur to our
        wise old rat to assemble the young rats and pass his knowledge
        along in an aural tradition BECAUSE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF TIME
        BINDING COULD NOT OCCUR WITHOUT THE WRITTEN WORD. 

        The writtenword is of course a symbol for something and in the case of
        hieroglyphic language writing like Egyptian it may be a symbol
        for itself that is a picture of what it represents. This is not
        true of an alphabet language like English. The word leg has no
        pictorial resemblance to a leg. It refers to the SPOKEN word
        leg. so we may forget that a written word IS AN IMAGE and that
        written words are images in sequence that is to say MOVING
        PICTURES. So any hieroglyphic sequence gives us an immediate
        working definition for spoken words. Spoken words are verbal
        units that refer to this pictorial sequence. And what then is
        the written word? My basis theory is that the written word was
        literally a virus that made spoken word possible. The word has
         

science_fiction by xxxgaiaxxx

to read:

a selection of xxxgaiaxxx’s library that I MUST read if I have not done it yet

1- Erewhon, de Samuel Butler (Uno de mis libros preferidos, una distopia tan buena como entretenida)
2- Estación de Transito, de Clifford Simak (Bonita novela de ciencia ficción)
3- El Ultimo Día de la Guerra, de Christopher Priest (Todavía no lo leí)
4- Limbo, de Bernard Wolfe (Excelente, una visión bastante terrorífica del futuro)
5- El Prestigio, de Christopher Priest (Muy buena novela sobre los magos y sus problemas)
6- Los Cristales Soñadores, de Theodore Sturgeon (Uno de mis libros preferidos de Sturgeon, pura poesía)
7- Luz Virtual, de William Gibson (Cyberpunk del bueno)
8- El Día de la Creación, de J. G. Ballard (Buena novela, media volada, pero que se puede esperar de Ballard)
9- Noches de Cocaína, de J. G. Ballard (Ballard me encanta, pero este no estuvo TAN bueno)
10- Tiempo de Marte, Phillip Dick (Otro en sala de espera)
11- Mona Lisa Acelerada, de William Gibson (Increíble, viaje al ciberespacio de la mano de Mona)
12- El Señor de la Luz, de Roger Zelazny (Tampoco lo leí todavía)
13- El Mundo Subterraneo, de Fowler Wright (Otro que esta esperando)
14- Super-Cannes, de J. G. Ballard (Buenisimo, en genral todo lo de Ballard me resulta buenisimo)
15- La Costa Mas Lejana, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Los libros de Derramar son increíbles al igual que la escritora, de quien no lei nada malo)
16- Las Tumbas de Atuan, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Mismo que arriba)
17- Fabulas Fantasticas, de Ambrose Bierce (Hacia mucho tiempo que un libro no me hacia reir y reflexionar a la vez de la misma manera que lo hace este)
18- Guía del Usuario Para el Nuevo Milenio, de J. G. Ballard (Buenisimos ensayos de Ballard, opinando sobre Star wars, Casablanca, Hitler y un monton de cosas mas)
19- La Mano Izquierda de la Oscuridad, de Ursula K. Le Guin (Obra maestra)

THANKS!!