Physical Experiments

These are a few experiments creating physical models of the experience of being at the Designing Geopolitics Conference.

Mashups – Humanities meets the Matrix

The following three mash-ups were initial experiments into understanding the potentials of prototyping an information-based world with humanities dialogue as opposed to militaristic, corporate, or scientific dialogue. With these experiments, I am interested in engaging these familiar visualizations and highly-produced environments with the sound off. What do these environments really say? How can swapping the … Read more

Marco Brambilla

The work of Marco Brambilla starts to get at some of the ideas we’ve been talking about. He also has a few other videos on his vimeo channel that can’t be embedded.

Digital Humanities and the case for Critical Commons

Digital Humanities and the case for Critical Commons Unfortunately, embedding is disabled for this video: Yet another Downfall detournement with Bruno Ganz holding the line against digital scholarship and fair use, courtesy of Critical Commonshttp://criticalcommons.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV–VHSw

Hubble Telescope images and color

Pages from NASA’s Hubble telescope website demonstrate how they assign colors within their amazing images. They use three approaches: natural color (what human eyes can see); representative color (using color to code portions of the image); and enhanced color. Of course the “images” are captured using filters that detect wavelengths invisible to the human eye … Read more

book-based environment

http://gizmodo.com/5811822/a-house-made-from-bookshelves-is-so-much-better-than-a-house-made-from-e+books/gallery/3

Tools for research

Zotero Omeka ScholarPress Digital History THATCamp Scribe ECHO H-Bot

Futuring Practices: Tools, Terms, and Perspectives

While approaches to futuring vary from institution to institution, a multitude of continuities, themes, and terms transcend. These elements consist of a series of tools, terms and perspectives that work together to guide the envisioning process. While my own research has sustained a primary focus on the research and processes of institutions and individuals, I … Read more

Motion Inspiration

Videos from ourMotion Inspiration Channel on Vimeo: Here’s some more, from our MMM Inspiration Playlist on Youtube:

Technology in the past

Reading Machines References: Libesbkind’s Machines John Muir   Writing Machines (Early form of Electromechanics)     The Secret Life of Machines – The word Processor