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Category Archives: Techno-science

Models of urban computing

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Nicolas Nova describes this as a: “Tapestry made out of old motherboards, encountered in Lisbon, Portugal. Ubicomp/urban computing to the letter.”
I’ve always thought that motherboards look like architectural models for industrial neighbourhoods, but never more so than with this one. Perhaps because it’s been painted one colour?
- Anne

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What should we do with GIS?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]

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Urban computing, locative media and everyday life in the future city

Monday, September 1, 2008

Space and Culture readers may be interested in my recently completed PhD dissertation, A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media.
From the abstract:
Following urban computing and locative media and their accompanying visions from labs, conferences and classrooms to journal publications and popular media accounts, this dissertation presents four case histories in [...]

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Intervention

Friday, August 1, 2008

William Lamson (2007-2008)
via Wrong Distance
- Anne

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Neuroaesthetics and the Time-Spaces of the Academy

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Debates are breaking out about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics — the effort to quantify, chart, and make “scientific” our experiences of art and affect. The Times Literary Supplement has recently entered the debate with Raymond Tallis’ vociferous reply to A.S. Byatt’s call to “observe the neorones.” Tallis, it seems, is not content to [...]

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