shit fuck god damn. it has taken me three months to reflect upon the recent quasi-disaster that was the abake prescribed, three part project, the zeitgeist heist. since posting about the first two elements of the project, team dynamics have run-a-muck, and the last group dinner/brainstorming session ended up in a... shall we say, heated discussion, at best. after a particularly critical reaction from the panel during ...
a few weeks ago i had a taste of life in rotterdam while working for the V2: Institute for Unstable Media. called in by my good friend and colleague danja, i had the opportunity to work in the "hack" department of the V2 Lab during this years DEAF07 and V2 25th anniversary events. most of the work i did was of a technical nature, and involved climbing up ...
So as to follow up on the on-going antics of the gamelan gang, for the past few months the MACPNE department has been generating research and development that encompasses the design of a user experience and deployment of a pavilion to house the Indonesian instrument know as the gamelan. This commission is to coincide with the grand re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall and renewal of London's ...
In 1982 Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term “time-sickness” to describe the obsessive belief that “time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up”. Guy Claxton, a British psychologist, thinks acceleration is now second nature to us: “We have developed an inner psychology of speed, of saving time and maximising efficiency, which is getting ...
Whew. And that was a tough term… Lucky for me I am on break now and have some time to prepare for the next term. Part of the requirement of the 1st year of my MA is to participate in a professional internship. For the first time in the history of the course, Karin, Alex and I are applying as an R&D team collectively for our ...
with the winter break on the cusp of conclusion (i hope everyone had a good and safe holiday this year), i managed to mozy on down to the internet today to check my mail, get some slash and do that internet do. so with a laid-back saunter, here begins another year of amateurish participatory dabbling into this web2.n0 sh!zznat. that sweet spot between xmas ...
every year the chaos computer club holds the chaos communication congress in Berlin, Germany. this is a great time for hackers of all disciplines to finally come together in an actual, physically shared space (as opposed to a virtual one, although i have seen some second lifers about) to discuss, teach and learn from one another within the community. check back for more updates in a jiffy!
Karin and i were recently invited to do some work on BLANK for Madhouse. what is Blank, you ask? why it's a traveling collaborative sketchbook journal, that's what. there are currently 2 blank books on the go and 2 more already completed and are filled with all sorts of artsy/designy goodness from all over the place. to take a look at the album, click on the above photo. if you are ...
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