"The old categories of composer, performer and audience are oversimplifications. There can be an infinite number of gradations between and combinations of them". - Laurie Spiegel
"The old categories of composer, performer and audience are oversimplifications. There can be an infinite number of gradations between and combinations of them". - Laurie Spiegel
"The Shape of Ideas" - A Comic by Grant Snider That Illustrates the Nature of Ideas: http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2014/08/the-shape-of-ideas.html #KM
Historical map of complexity science: https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html #Complexity
"Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again": https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613158/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data/
#FFHCI #Biology #Technology
It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - William Bruce Cameron
"How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs": #NeuroScience
https://www.newsweek.com/cia-mkultra-documents-files-remote-control-dogs-1250519
"Pole position: human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field": https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/18/humans-earth-magnetic-field-magnetoreception
"Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from Alpha-band Activity in the Human Brain": https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Transduction-of-the-Geomagnetic-Field-as-Evidenced-Wang-Hilburn/31f0d1e195add4df4f5d606136d11310e6d95c6d
Evolutionary robotics lecture 16: The Golem project. #ALife
Bees and fish communicate via robots: #FFHCI
Concept of the day: "Unnovation" - the opposite of Innovation.
So much talk of "empowering" creatives & artists with ever more complex machine learning "augmentation tools". While that's fun, If you really care about empowering creatives, design social systems that *pay creatives real living wages*. Automation won't provide that.
Broke: Tech keynotes that focus on Technology.
Woke: Tech keynotes that focus on Humans.
Bespoke: Tech keynotes that focus on Nature.
“Wild Design for Living in the Wild” - talk by Bill Buxton at Interaction19
"Network Theories of Power" - talk by Manuel Castells (1h): #SE #Politics
"In terms of science, technology & information, about 200 universities globally produce 85% of all (scientific) knowledge (based on citation index). So in every aspect, there is a tremendous disparity what is included and what isn't - and that is power." - Manuel Castells
Power and counter-power in the digital society - talk by Manuel Castells:
Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society:
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/46/35
The Non-Global Global Crisis - talk by Manuel Castells:
The Creation of Discursive Monoculture:
https://www.scribd.com/document/320441507/The-Creation-of-Discursive-Monoculture
Communications in Conflict: http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Communications-In-Conflict.pdf #SE
The Society of the Spectacle: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4