Via Heckler & Coch comes Introduction to Canadian Media Theorists: Tricksters on the Margins by Marshall Soules:
A CANADA OF LIGHT is a passionate meditation on Canada as a “communication state.” In it, author B.W. Powe argues for an inclusive and accommodating vision of the “discontinuous” Canadian identity:
‘I believe […]
I like Iain Borden’s work on skateboarding and the city - it makes a good companion to books like The Answer is Never. And 2001’s ZONE exhibition also takes a nice look at skating, art and architecture.
On the tech side, one of Eyebeam’s recent Distributed Creativity Forums looked at Borden’s work and the possibilities […]
Spatial Textures: Place, Touch and Praesentia
Kevin Hetherington
“This paper looks and the everyday ways in which people make place through touch.”
Replicants and Irreductions: Affective encounters at the interface
Lucy Suchman
“This paper explores the question of just what image of the human the designers of machines configured under the banner of affective computing aim to replicate.”
“We learn a place and how to visualize spatial relationships, as children, on foot and with imagination. Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.”
(More at Walking in Place, via Thomas Angermann.)
This reminded me of Edward T. Hall on Proxemics:
“Proxemics [is] the study of the human use […]
Federico Garcia Lorca:
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see […]