Bill Viola – The Passions – an Exhibition on at the National Gallery London. Lots of high definition videos of people’s faces in slow motion, displaying emotion, disposition, reaction. The technology and medium makes us look differently at the everyday. That was about it though. I couldn’t bring myself to stand in front of a…
media matters
Materialities of Media
Onomy Labs Over at Anne Balsamo’s place. Tilty table – tilt the table and the picture projected on it moves. Wonderful. As Joe Adler pointed out – a new way of scrolling, of flying across a picture or document – and it could be the size of a football field. New physical and embodied interfaces…
media and archaeology
Media|Archaeology Sam and I have been talking about his thoughts on media and archaeology, and about the Metamedia lab for a few months now – I have pulled together some of the highlights. The main point is about setting up a dialogue between Sam’s world of information science and software design, and mine of archaeology…
Media Eigenvectors – metamedia notes
Sam and I have been working on some ideas – in that space between archaeology, media studies, information science and software engineering. Here they are in draft (and written jointly in Hydra) Aims to discuss and describe media in the abstract, that is as distinct from technical and material properties to develop a set of…
Manchester UK – Archaeology and performance
Visiting Nick Kaye in the drama department to talk about his superb book on site specific art (and which features a piece by Cliff McLucas on Brith Gof’s work Tri Bywyd). Tri Bywyd – scenographic design by Cliff McLucas It again confirms, for me, that the contemporary fine arts are where the most interesting intellectual…
Information is a verb
Information is a verb and we need an archaeology of information. University of California Irvineat the UC Humanities Research Institute Occasion – a colloquium on the future of the humanities in a digital world. Attending – people from university humanities centers across the US, librarians, some government people, IT people (various supercomputing centers), and from…
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