User:Darija Medic/Documentation of Process

Notes

notes from tutorial November 8, 2010.

Before the tutorial with aymeric, I was considering the different interests that I have, and how to clarify what are the places where magical thinking comes into place in relation to technology, also which subjects am I particularly interested in. One approach would be observing elements of magical belief and elements of technological usage, finding the possible common points.

Things to use when writing:

• Describe the project and the desired outcome
• describe some previous projects
• describe what you want to do
• describe why you want to do it
• describe how you intend to achieve it
• describe the success criteria for this project

If I focus on new magical thinking, or a magical understanding of technology, the goal of this project would be to try and find a way of implementing it into my interest of navigating through information layers in the city.

Some things to look at:

cloud as a metaphor for mystifying data

tantalum chemical components in devices

i-phone suicides

Graham Harwood and his work on hardware energy

• taking the starting point of repairmen isn't the best analogy for products getting more closed, because it invokes the idea of "good old times" and doesn't show the true picture

"The internet space, or the interactive space becomes so fractal, that we see things working on one level, that are self similar on the next level and self similar on the level after that. So once experienced in learning in a viral space, on a genuinely memetic viral space, a self similar space, is no longer through the traditional teaching stories of the Bible. We communicate through pattern recognition, rather than through teaching stories" Douglas Rushkof

Keywords: paranoia, procrastination, wild-domesticated, intuitive technology, spam, how does technology implement in popular culture, self referentiality, theories of conspiracy, vocabularies, concept of keywords, skyping, filtering, the Internet of things

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Starting ideas:

Possible continuation of working with locative media in city spaces (the not realized element of my third thematic project), researching how does information shape spaces, and how do these layers of information communicate with space and with each other. How do we navigate through physical information?

animal-human-city how are animals perceived, what happens when the city is perceived as their natural habitat, antropomorphizateion of animals (pets), what belongs to "the wild", and what is "domesticated" in human-animal behavior. Where is the space of animals and who claims what. animal as meat, people as animals.

procrastinometer-a tool for measuring anxiety, unproductivity and frustration in today's working and living environment. How are our health and sanity affected by the shift of the working space

in combat with online semantics software that measures key markers in, for example, youtube videos, through speech recognition -prototype of a good internet citizen -customizing vocabularies of browsing

literature:

The Internet of things-Rob Van Kranenburg,Insitute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2008.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak#,

Purity and danger-Mary Douglas, Routledge, 1966.

Sensorium. Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, edited by Caroline A. Jones,

Future shock,The third wave Powershift, alvin Toffler, Bantam books, New York, 1980.

Information feudalism, Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Earthscan, London, 2002.

On domesticated glitches, human wetware, on reality as mediated, as opposed to reality perceived as natural: GltchLnguistx: The Machine in the Ghost / Static Trapped in Mouths, Curt Cloninger Nictoglobe, Amsterdam, 2010 http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=articles&f=glitch

other links

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/09/subverting-the-lidar-landscape.php,

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/animal_candidates/,

http://world-information.org/trd/intro

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/search/label/Vernacular%20of%20File%20Formats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination

http://gwei.org/index.php | Google will eat itself

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