davos 2016: privacy and secrecy

Sorry for the delay on these post. Just cleaning out my drafts folder. Commonality = priveldge information = value which we trade . Sharing of nuggets of information . goverenments engage in surveillance and espionage Should government be allowed to read someones emails? NO (sort of) / Yes (with a caveat) / YES (sometime) / Yes (with … Continue reading →

really long trunks: first ever youtube video

Uploaded on Apr 23, 2005 The first video on YouTube. Maybe it’s time to go back to the zoo? Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is an American-bangladeshi internet entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube and was the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named “Me at the zoo” and … Continue reading →

Tokyo Light Odyssey by WOW inc

Here is a bit of 360º magic from wowlab.net/research/beyond-motiongraphics. Even better on your device with cardboard or the likes. 【360° Movie】Tokyo Light Odyssey Continue reading →

Twitter feeds and glass castles

Twitter feeds are not normally subjected to artistic and/or aesthetic citique but when that feed belongs to one of the most scrutinised females in the western world, it is no surprise that a deeper psychological anlaysis of how individuals view the world around them and how our choices of what we post and share not … Continue reading →

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re_post : What [in the World] was Postmodernism? An Introduction – by David Ciccoricco

[image] mark amerika / jon vega / twine : filmtext v2.0 : http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/ RE_POST : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FRIDAY 22 MAY 2015 DUNEDIN SYMPOSIUM TO OFFICIALLY END POSTMODERNISM A group of scholars and artists will gather the first week of June with one question on their minds: what was postmodernism?  The “What [in the World] was Postmodernism?” … Continue reading →

Upcoming Talk (National Library, Wellington): Surveillance, Privacy & Space in the Age of Social Media — Kathleen M. Kuehn, PhD

I’ll be giving a talk this Thursday on the way social media, digital apps and mobile technologies have turned ‘mapping’ into an everyday practice. We regularly ‘check in’, location-tag digital photos, create virtual maps, and publicise, write about and visually document our experience with and within space. As a result, the way we create, represent […] … Continue reading →