Craig Campbell at the f01k10r3 & public culture program is about to open an Intermedia Ethnographies Laboratory (building will be finished this time next year) at the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies (University of Texas, Austin). His show, Ethnographic Terminalia is showing in Pittsburgh. Campbell’s work takes visual anthropology out of the museum and out of [...]
[Bogotá City Blues by Coso Blues]
Wired UK reports on the digital city. Here are some utopian, critical and imaginary highlights:
Digital Cities: ‘Sense-able’ urban design
By Carlo Ratti
“By receiving real-time information, appropriately visualised and disseminated, citizens themselves can become distributed intelligent actuators, who pursue their individual interests in co-operation and competition with others, and thus become prime [...]
NY Times: Data Center Overload
“Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network … But where is ‘there,’ and what does it look like? ‘There’ is nowadays likely to be increasingly large, powerful, energy-intensive, always-on and essentially out-of-sight data centers. These centers run enormously scaled software [...]
The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century. Edited by Howard McNaughton and Adam Lam (2006). Christchurch NZ: Canterbury University Press. 264 pp. ISBN 1-877257-48-6
Reviewed by Niamh Hennessy, York University
This is an interesting and provocative collection of stories, commentaries and reviews that offer a series of meditations on the transformations of everyday life [...]