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Drafts, refs, thoughts...

Which are the aspects of design, art practices and technology that really interests me?.

Alternative methods, activism, underground - accessibility vs exclusivity, piracy, audio, gadgets, diy, Puredata software, create an electronic sequencer, feedback loops from different audio/video inputs, experiment with microphones, webcams, monitors, data bases, digital archives, finding out how to use optical flow in python by using many video inputs simultaneously connected, the sound of mobility perhaps, different cameras pointing onto specific urban pathways where people’s interaction generates audio responses. Thinking of an installation of big dimensions where monitors are piled together, each of them showing the camera’s live input. Research on sensor technologies: which technologies use such devices and to what purpose? Will there be any social implications? What we people then become if used at an individual level? Life exists only in action. There is no innovation that has not an aggressive character. Creation must be a violent assault on the forces of matter, Having such a practical focus is a great way to engage students and it allows them to complete signif- icant projects. However, Python can also serve as an excellent foundation for introducing important computer science concepts. Since Python fully supports procedures and classes, students can be gradually introduced to topics such as procedural abstraction, data structures... understand the synergy between technology and language, not to produce a timely data-reference guide.

I’m very into you. Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark (emails correspondence)
Here before you is the surviving correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark. These emails were hastily wrinen, casual and often indirect; they crossed "in the mail" and beth the sequence and references may confuse the reader. The authors barely knew each other, the correspondence lasts a little over two weeks, and their relationship lasted only a few weeks beyond the last of the letters.

The filter bubble. What the Internet is hiding from you.
The Internet software that we use is getting smarter, and more tailored to our needs, all the time. The risk, Eli Pariser reveals, is that we increasingly won’t see other perspectives. In The Filter Bubble, he shows us how the trend could reinforce partisan and narrow mindsets, and points the way to a greater online diversity of perspective.”

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Ray Kurzweil.
“Ranges widely over such juicy topics as entropy, chaos, the big bang, quantum theory, DNA computers, quantum computers, Godel’s theorem, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nanoengineering, the Turing test, brain scanning, the slowness of neurons, chess playing programs, the Internet—the whole world of information technology past, present, and future. This is a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next.”