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Ecomedia
How the Natural World is Transforming the Nature of Media.
This weblog is not the usual blog of daily events. It contains a series of notes/thoughts designed to make connections between science and media art.
Sometimes these ideas are tied in with current events, but most of the time this blog is not in any particular order. It serves as a central area for a detailed examination of ideas first published in a 1999 Leonardo Journal article entitled 'Active Vision' that I hope to develop into a book that will discuss some of the current developments in science, ecology, media and society and how they inform and are informed by new technologies. The book will be written for artists working with digital media and anyone who is interested in future directions of the medium.
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last modified Sep 7, 2006 at 13:00
Yesterday I attended one of the first informational meetings of New York 2050 <http://www.ny2050.org>, a group actively involving people of New York in a dialogue about their visions for the future. NY2050 is the brainchild of many of the same New Yorkers who organized the Imagine New York project, which was formed after the September 11th tragedy as a way to ensure that the community had a voice in the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.
The NY2050 project is one of a series of future vision projects in urban centers all over the world, and organizers of NY2050 are in contact with some of them including Barcelona 2050 and Buenos Aires 2050.
My hope in being involved in the NY2050 project is to help facilitate a series of projects by Hunter graduate and undergraduate students in which the future of media is imagined. Media has undergone a huge transformation over the past ten years, the growth of the internet and public access to the internet has completely changed the media landscape, recreating the publishing, music , and soon the film industry and promoting the development of new forms of media like massively multi-player games, hypertext fiction, and online universities.
There has been a series of social and political struggles involving the internet that could only have been expected due to the speed of growth of the media. The medium is still in its infancy, and the struggle to balance the protection of rights of ownership with the protection of freedom of information, speech, and access is ongoing. What will some of the future debates be and how can we plan for them today?
New forms of media and communications demand infrastructure.
Infrastructure is being torn down to be replaced with newer, better technology almost as quickly as it is being installed. How will New York need to prepare its infrastructure for the next half century of development in media and communications? How will this affect existing infrastructure and how can the existing infrastructure be best used?
How will new forms of media delivery affect the creative process? What kind of stories will be developed and how will narrative and storytelling be defined in fifty years? What will be the role of media in everyday life: at home, in the workplace, at school, in the public sphere, etc.?
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