Tag: future
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Interview with Elif Ayiter
Elif Ayiter, aka. Alpha Auer. I was trained as a graphic designer, and worked for many years in the graphic design industry as an art director; after which I switched to academia. Nowadays, I teach full time at Sabancı University, Istanbul. My areas of instruction are graphic design, art and computing, theory of creative practice,…
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Predicting the Future and Exponential Growth
“How many times would I have to fold a sheet of paper for the height of the folded paper to reach the moon?” Human beings have terrible intuition for exponential growth. If I asked you how many times you would have to fold a single sheet of US Letter paper to reach the moon, it…
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fivewordsforthefuture è media partner di art*science 2017 / fivewordsforthefuture is media partner of art*science 2017
Italiano [English below] art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 – Il Nuovo e la Storia / The New and History Bologna, 3-5 Luglio 2017 Factory, via Castiglione, 26 Sala conferenze “Marco Biagi”, Baraccano, via S.Stefano, 119 https://artscience.online https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=22 art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 ha il patrocinio di: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MIBACT), Leonardo/ISAST,…
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Interview with Christa Sommerer
Christa Sommerer studied Biology and Botany (1982-85), followed by Art Education and Art Study in Modern Sculpture (1985-90) in Vienna, Austria. She concluded her post graduate study at the Staedelschule Institut for New Media, Frankfurt (1993-94). Subsequently, Christa Sommerer was an artist-in-resident at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Application, Beckman Institute (US) and at…
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Interview with Stelarc
Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate,…
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Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove
[ITA – English below] Derrick de Kerckhove è stato un associato del Centro per la Cultura e la Tecnologia dal 1972 al 1980 e ha lavorato con Marshall McLuhan per oltre 10 anni come traduttore, assistente e co-autore. È stato direttore del Programma McLuhan in Cultura e Tecnologia, autore de La pelle della…
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Predictables, contemporary fortune tellers
From the dawn of Humanity, man has been trying to predict the future. From the motion of the stars to modern meteorology, man has been searching for patterns that might indicate what is to come. The Project asks to present a fresh interpretation for man’s historic search for the future — interactive watches that display…
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Interview with Giacomo Verde
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Giacomo Verde, come lui si definisce, è un teknoartista. Diplomato all’Istituto d’Arte di Firenze, oggi vive a Lucca ma “lavora nel mondo”. L’operato di Giacomo Verde non è limitato a un genere o a una tipologia artistica; essa si caratterizza proprio per la contaminazione e l’attraversamento di…
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Something about the future
[ITA – English below]. Un ciclo di conferenze è un evento culturale che consente di ampliare i propri orizzonti conoscitivi, ciò grazie al fatto che apre nuove discussioni o solo perché può fornire nuove informazioni agli ascoltatori. Tale circostanza rappresenta anche un’occasione per incontrare personalità interessanti che possono illuminarci con le loro riflessioni…
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Interview with Marco Aime
[ITA – English below] Breve bio. Marco Aime, nato a Torino nel 1956, è un antropologo e docente di Antropologia Culturale presso l’Università di Genova. Ha condotto ricerche sul campo, occupandosi delle differenti etnie in Benin, Burkina, Faso e Mali. Dopo aver indagato su semisconosciute etnie, la sua attenzione nei confronti del diverso…
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Google Glass Project
In the previous post we went through an article written by Robert Rice in 2009. That vision is now becoming reality: Google’s augmented reality eyewear (or “eyeware”) will provide hands-free access to maps, weather information, message notifications and more, all displayed as a virtual layer on top of the user’s regular vision. In the official…
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Video-interview with Alan N. Shapiro
We were in Linz, attending the Ars Electronica Festival 2012, when we met the Technologist and Futurist Alan N. Shapiro. It was months ago, but we were already thinking about (five-words-for-) the-future. Shapiro is an interdisciplinary thinker, software developer, computer scientist, author and translator in the field of contemporary cultural phenomena. He studied science-technology at…
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Did you know? (v.3.0)
Globalization & The Information Age. 2013 The New 2012 HD version on the progression of information technology researched by Karl Fisch, and modified by Faisal Rahim. From the website: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/home “Because we are educators in the United States, our experiences and perspectives are going to be somewhat America-centric. However, we believe that the themes of…