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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
Scientists at the University of Rochester store an image of the college's logo on a photon. If true, it will completely revolutionize computing.
Read this:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9008999&intsrc=news_ts_head
and
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=7842
Found this on the Discovery Channel:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/19/musicmap_tec.html?category=technology
Promoting a commercial use of the idea of 'soundmaps' where listeners navigate through their music collection (and presumably shared music collections too like limewire) using a joystick and flight simulator model.
Shane Brennan, an independent curator working with Rhizome has asked me to participate in an online exhibition called New Climates, I think he has an interesting methodology related to the ideas on this blog so I thought I would post a quote from one of his emails here:
"..The project entitled New Climates and will be an online exhibition of video art that addresses the topic of global climate change. It will draw together original artworks, research and conversations on the relationship between art, environmental issues and networked culture. This curatorial project, launching in the spring of 2007, will take the form of a dynamic video weblog.
..artists will be selected to create short web-videos responding to the pervasive discourse and images surrounding the climate change crisis. The original works may include animations, documentaries, personal testimonials, appropriations, text or image slideshows, or other techniques...
As a video weblog – which will hopefully reach a broad, heterogeneous audience of art- and non-art-world individuals – the exhibition will be distributed across both space and time: It may be accessed anywhere across the globe, and it will grow organically through a series of syndicated (RSS) posts over the course of several months. In this way, the theme of global climate change will intersect with the technology and language of global media. Just as the climate change debate is constantly shifting and evolving, this exhibition will remain transitive, flexible and open-ended."
Art, environmental issues and networked culture...you can be sure I'll be following developments on this project!
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