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Category Archives: Work-Blog

RIP Friedrich Kittler

18-Oct-11

Here’s Jussi Parikka with some excellent, poignant thoughts about him. “Standardization is always upper management’s escape from technological possibilities.”

The Hotel

02-Oct-11

So here’s the true story. I had everything booked for ReWire – early tickets booked to save money, ReWire early bird ticket, etc. But I stupidly forgot to book my accommodation until the start of August; and that proved to be a huge problem, considering the Labour party decided to host their conference at exactly [...]

Andrew Pickering and Charlie Gere at ReWire

30-Sep-11

For some of the STS people who tune into my blog.

British Art Show stuff

29-Sep-11

There are loads of events happening at Plymouth in the next couple of months. The British Art Show is in town – so here’s a taste of stuff.

Too Cool For School

20-Sep-11

..is a term that I shall use for blog posts or authors who are either one or a combination of the following; 1. Hideously overconfident, cocky or conceited. 2. An individual who is just too smart for their own good and it works against them. 3. Someone who thinks that they know everything to the [...]

We are all Duchamp’s ideal children

14-Aug-11

Back in 1997, the infamous net.artist Vuk Cosic stated in an interview, that in a rather oblique way, all net.artists were Duchamp’s ideal children. He had a point mind you, they kind of were; but instead of exhibiting a found object, the net.artist would go one further. Not by exhibiting found protocols and algorithms, (although [...]

Back in Devon (again)

12-Jul-11

Back in Devon. Tired. Hungry. Need Sleep. Work tomorrow. Today was great. Full report tomorrow. Need sleep now. Bye.

Art as compression

06-Jul-11

Tim has a great post up on Art as compression HERE. Scarily, it somehow replicates my thoughts on ZIP drive publishing that I mused about last August. Heres a highlight; “The idea that art is compression implies that there is a real world and that there can be good and bad art. It also implies that [...]

The Agency of Waste: Purification and Procedure – Eco-tone paper

29-Jun-11

So here’s the audio and powerpoint presentation. I haven’t put a PDF up of the paper yet, as there’s talk of a small publication of the Eco-Tone proceedings. To use the movable MOV powerpoint, you can just manually click it, (or mac users can use the two finger slide thing to the left) to move [...]

At Eco-Tone

28-Jun-11

No time to comment – but all is well – Ennis is a nice chap, everyones great, and we got lost in some East Midlands Urban Living and the most interesting taxi driver ever. More on that at some point.