Entries Tagged as 'network'
Industrialization of Information
This recent article in Wired lays out the fascinating phenomenon of the information industry. It describes the massive new server farms cropping up in Oregon to house the petabytes of information for Google (and others) to keep up with the task of copying the rapidly expanding Internet. The article points out that […]
Categories: placeofmedia · network · cities · geography
Persistence of Presence (Twitter)
Film is based on an illusion of mobility. ‘Persistence of Vision’ is the way a number of still frames, when moving very quickly through a machine and separated by a black bar, creates the impression of movement. Cinematic movement is an illusion that is so successful that we hardly question its authenticity.
It’s for this […]
Categories: network · mediated urbanism · mobility · web 2.0 · place
Networked Place
This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture. They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), real virtual worlds, the network and its sociospatial consequences, geospatial web and locative media, and […]
Categories: network · mediated urbanism · mobility · maps · web 2.0
A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code - New York Times
This article decribes the phenomenon that is google maps. This ain’t your mother’s mapquest.
Link: A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code - New York Times.
Categories: network
The History of Sampling
Ah, the connections.
Link: The History of Sampling.
Categories: network
information bomb
I’ve just re-read Paul Virilio’s "Cyberspace Alarm!" essay. He says something very interesting about the way cyberspace is adjusting contemporary perspectives. He says in that Virilio kind of way that cyberspace has created a tactile perspective. To see at a distance, to hear at a distance, are perspectives introduced by the old media. Cyberspace introduces […]
Categories: network
Realism Lacks Presence
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
Continuous Computing
An interesting "discovery" of mobile technology from Technology Review:
Constant connectivity has changed what it means to participate in a conference or any other gathering. Using chat rooms, blogs, wikis,
Wikis: Web pages that allow users to add content or edit existing content.
photo-sharing
sites, and other technologies, people at real-world meetings can now
tap into an electronic swirl […]
Autopoiesis
“We become observers through recursively generating representations of our interactions, and by interacting with several representations simultaneously we generate relations with the representations of which we can then interact and repeat this process recursively, thus remaining in a domain of interactions always larger than that of the representation.” (Maturna and Verela, Autopoiesis and Cognition: the […]
Categories: network
Locative Art on the Web
This website provides a nice list of relatively recent web-based locative art. Some of the links don’t exactly work, but others do and that’s really what matters.
Categories: network · mediated urbanism
