Liberty (via lamuerteblanca)
The documentation of the “IDD meets Digitale Klasse” exhibition is completed now, including the talk session of Daito Manabe, Jussi Ängeslevä and Alvaro Cassinelli.
“Hyper Normal” by Sitraka Rakotoniaina
Computers and networks finally offer us the ability to write. And we do write with them. But the underlying capability of the computer era is actually programming—which almost none of us really knows how to do. We simply use the programs that have been made for us, and enter our blog text in the appropriate box on the screen. We teach kids how to use software to write, but not how to write software. This means they have access to the capabilities given to them by others, but not the power to determine the value-creating capabilities of the technology for themselves.
– Rushkoff, Douglas. “Net Effect: It’s Not Too Late for Humanity to Survive the Digital.” Arthur 12/10/2009 2009. (via carvalhais)
Every expressive medium has its own unique patterns of desire; its own way of giving pleasure, of creating beauty, of capturing what we feel to be true about life; its own aesthetic. One of the functions of early artifacts is to awaken the public to these new desires, to create the demand for an intensification of the particular pleasures the medium has to offer.
– Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997. (via carvalhais)
To autonomize a model you must provide it with ways to perceive and respond to its surrounding environment. It must also be equipped with a decision-making module so that it can adapt its reactions to both external and internal stimuli. We use three lines of thought as a guide to the autonomization of models: autonomy by essence, by necessity and by ignorance.
– Tisseau, Jacques. “Virtual Reality — in Virtuo Autonomy.” University of Rennes 1, 2001. (via carvalhais)
