Archive for June, 2006

Interactive City, Community Domain, Pacific Rim and Transvergence

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

These are the themes for ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 happening in August, and the symposium papers and panels have been announced. They all look interesting, but here are a some related specifically to space and culture:
Absence in Common: An Operator for the Inoperative Community by Kevin Hamilton
Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers in […]

Locating spaces

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Floating Points: Locative Media, Perspective, Flight and the International Space Station by Jeremy Hight with Alexander van Dijk
“Floating Points is a locative media experiment for the International Space Station [ISS] in three sections:
1. It aims to investigate the locative narrative of the ISS in relation to the ground and astronauts’ relationships to a temporary place […]

Gleanings from the World Urban Forum

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

First 2 days were thin gruel, but here were go. Reading between the lines of what was said, trying to pick up on the significance of those who speak in UNspeak, and rescuing the insights that lie behind what sometimes get said even though it seems the speaker doesn’t grasp the implications…
Cities […]

World Urban Forum

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

The slide above is from the Dutch National Youth Council’s presentation on youth initiatives and the Millenium Development Goals.

A lot of what happens at WUF3 is edutainment, anything serious is behind the scenes between some of the rather few national delegations in attendance.
WUF3 also overlapped with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada annual […]

Paid to fake it

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Just going through Pitchfork’s 100 Awesome Music Videos, I couldn’t believe that ten years have passed since this came out. It’s scary that it’s still timely.

The Roots play Métropolis on July 7th as part of the Montréal Jazz Fest. Check it out.

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