Link: Smart Growth and the Internet - Government Technology.
One of the more interesting paradoxes — particularly for regions struggling to divine "smart growth" solutions — is that the more we live and work in cyberspace, the more important real place becomes.

Categories: mediated urbanism

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Montreal after attending the Visible Evidence conference.  It’s been years since I’ve attended this conference, and I’m glad to be back in the fold.  It’s really a quite sophisticated gathering in many respects.  While the discourse on new media leaves something to be desired, the participants are dealing […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · article ideas · digital art

The Beverly Center in LA might get a $125M makeover to turn into a mixed-use development.  As a means of competing with the neighboring Grove and Hollywood and HIghland, the Beverly Center needs to create some sort of connection to the city.  I’ve often referred to the BC as the best example of placeless mall […]

Categories: Malls

In Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology, he makes the distinction between instrumental technology and techne.  The current concept of technology is anthropological or instrumental, in that it is a means to an end, it accomplishes something.  That, according to Heidegger, will get us nowhere. 
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain […]

Categories: Media Theory

Communicating the body at a distance.  Seems to be all the rage these days.  This project R*Emote Mirror sets up a mirror in New York and another in Seoul.  A full length mirror in each site shows the outline of the remote person’s reflection.  Funny, how video images don’t seem to cut it anymore.  Realism […]

Categories: network · digital art

Don Norman’s rethinking of Human-centered design.  He proposes that activity-centered design is in fact more useful as it avoids the trap of having to accomodate all user feedback.  Tools don’t adapt to the user, users often adapt to tools.  And this, he points out is not always a bad thing. 
Yes, we all know of […]

Categories: interface

In Søren Pold’s article "Interface Realisms" in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, he suggests that the interface is now a central aesthetic form conveying digital information of all kinds.
"This circumstance is simultaneously trivial, provocative, and far reaching - trivial because the production, reproduction, distribution and reception of digital art increasingly take place at an […]

Categories: interface