Stories in Digital Media

Reading one of my favourite magazines, Vice, I stumbled across an interesting interview with contemporary British philosopher Simon Critchley. The interviewer is not very good, probably he had no idea of what he should ask, but nevertheless, Critchley pointed out some interesting thoughts.

We are not even consumerist; we are a society of distraction, idle talk, and ambiguity. Everybody knows everything has happened, everything is automatically trivial, and, again, nothing means anything. This is the world of blogging, the fake world of Facebook, the world that compensates for an absent set of social experiences. There are virtues to social-networking sites, I’m sure, but you feel an awful vacuum at the heart of them.

The whole interview. Simon Critchley.

Two eccentric game designers talk about – what else? – game design. English with German subtitles @ arte+7, available only a few days!

More interesting than those here, 9 0 0 0 s flickr set shows some beautiful and interesting Atari VCS cartridge artworks.

In case you haven’t seen it yet.

Okay, consider this as a comment on the contribution of non digital-natives. Consider this right here as a appraisal of what they all are talking about:

Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

Ceci Moss from rhizome collected a couple of YouTube videos which document the transition from analog to digital in the USA on June 12, 2009. NTSC is history, ATSC is the new guy in town.

Maybe some readers will remember Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, which freaked me out and fascinated me at the same time. Well, although we all saw it coming, for me this TED Talk by PW Singer fires up the transition from the fantastic and horrible visions, like so many other forms of technical “improvements” from the past  into a part of our everyday perception of the world.

The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) has been taking place in prestigious institutions across the globe since 1988. It is organised under the auspices of the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA Foundation), an international non-profit organisation that promotes the relationship between arts, science and digital technologies.

Projects and papers for presentation at the ISEA2010 RUHR exhibition and conference in August 2010 can be submitted online until 15 September.

You can go to Iran if you want.
But i think you better stay here, and organize the community here, to collect money. the revolution will cost money. for pamphlets, machines, defense operations, unlocked iphones. Organise on internet the collection and buying or getting from apple of unlocked iphones for Iran Green.

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There certainly was too much pointless blabla about the Web in the past few years. After watching this cut by Andre Fillippone Jr. made with source material he took from Charlie Rose’ shows, I feel much better.