Comments on: Interactive City, play and spectacle http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/08/14/interactive-city-play-and-spectacle/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ancel http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/08/14/interactive-city-play-and-spectacle/comment-page-1/#comment-195 ancel Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:40:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=574#comment-195 ... Our cities and lives are currently in the process of being computerized, in one respect or another, and becoming more unitary and imaginary than ever before. However, the content presented in these computerized environments is not necessarily interesting. In any case, the future society and urbanity we are talking about here is already no longer media-oriented per se, but definitely spectacular in nature. This means that "messages" are no longer on the agenda, not even artistic messages. Consequently, the imaginary freedom provided by the process of computerization will not be able to continue beyond the post-media age arriving with the digitalisation of the entire planet, with the effect that only some actions or gatherings of universal, or even cosmic, significance will make sense and be of real interest in the context of the techno-sciences...<br/><br/>extract from my paper <br/>"SPN_Shanghai_2010" at ISEA06 … Our cities and lives are currently in the process of being computerized, in one respect or another, and becoming more unitary and imaginary than ever before. However, the content presented in these computerized environments is not necessarily interesting. In any case, the future society and urbanity we are talking about here is already no longer media-oriented per se, but definitely spectacular in nature. This means that “messages” are no longer on the agenda, not even artistic messages. Consequently, the imaginary freedom provided by the process of computerization will not be able to continue beyond the post-media age arriving with the digitalisation of the entire planet, with the effect that only some actions or gatherings of universal, or even cosmic, significance will make sense and be of real interest in the context of the techno-sciences…

extract from my paper
“SPN_Shanghai_2010″ at ISEA06

]]>