mindHive - Brainstorm 2.0
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Tobin Stewart.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, New Media, Interconnected.
How does your project operate in relation to de Kerchove’s discussion of the sense of presence in tele-presence?
i. Source
• the theoretical framework of consciousness and existence, clearly represented via the manifestation of its virtual, interactive simulation
ii. Shared-Space
• the user’s experience is positioned in competition with a community of elements, translated among both real and virtual realms
iii. Shared-Time
• the virtualization becomes a sun (as metaphor), creating a unified autonomous focal point, exclusive of time
iv. Interval
• the immersive responsiveness of the experience develops the sense of enraptured influence, where no level of disengagement fully absolves your effect on the system
Which aspects of the Moist Manifesto would your project realize?
Deconstructs the information, retrieved from human presence, into a translated virtual consciousness, presenting the idea of virtual spirituality; interpreting the wet as dry in its origin.
What is the programme of your architecture? What behaviour is embedded, expected, encouraged?
Extracting, mapping and interacting with network-generated frequencies. The generated information manifests in three-dimensional virtual space as fractals, with levels of data being examined by the user. Awareness of the data frequencies is imposed upon the user, spawning new vehicles for enriched experiences.
What seeds are you planting? What are you growing?
The project stems from the idea that consciousness lives in the space of data frequencies, where noise is a constant and harmonies intentional. The experience of the user is predicated upon unintentional data retrieval, which becomes malleable as the user is enlightened to the networked consciousness. With the accumulation of individual and site-specific data characteristics, the system will create a third level of being, superceding the system itself. The initial engagement starts with the user, develops into the site, communicates with the network, and manifests as a representation of consciousness.
The Idea Formerly Known as Thought
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Tobin Stewart.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, New Media, Interconnected.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
A reflection drawn from the present view on the evolution of science and the understanding of the human mind (consciousness). Playing with the ahistoric qualities therein – a constant human desire to understand what it is to ‘be,’ we will also be commenting on today’s perspective of technology and its effects on religion and spirituality.
NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS
A representation of the invisible glue that holds information together – the harmonization of existing versus new.
• randomness represented through some sort of lag
• information analyzed as frequencies
• static interpreted as ‘nothingness’
• the multi-dimensionality of the ‘consciousness’ (individual, site and network as a whole) emerges only upon interaction within the network
INPUT
Brainwaves (most likely a metaphorical representation thereof) influenced via emotional manipulation caused and effected via the state of the collective consciousness being monitored.
Individual ←→ Site ←→ Group
Direct and indirect experience – the viewer, even if not aware of their manipulation of the system, cannot escape the influence they will have upon it.
STRUCTURAL
• measuring EKG frequencies (metaphorical representation thereof)
• differentiating unified experiences from random ones
• tangible representations (individual) versus abstract representations (collective)
PERCEPTUAL
Individual consciousness expands into a collective consciousness.
• begins with 1 and 0
• square wave becomes sine wave (digital to analog)
• site becomes a ‘hive’ brought about via flash-mob mentality
Global Consciousness Project
Posted on January 21st, 2007 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, New Media, Science/Physics, Interconnected.
Don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but this absolutely amazing, and has incredible meaning for interconnected.
Robert Nelson, using random number generators as a means of acquiring noise, shows how they form relationships with human conciousness.
Check out this video
Posted on December 14th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: New Media.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5579362191486305681&q=hyperland
Duncan Wilson
Posted on November 20th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: New Media, Culture/Art.
check this out.
Invisible Data
Posted on November 8th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, New Media, Science/Physics, Node.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE
“Contemporary neuroscience suggests the existence of fundamental algorithms by which all sensory transduction is translated into an intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of these codes within the human temporal or limbic cortices by applied electromagnetic patterns may require energy levels which are within the range of both geomagnetic activity and contemporary communication networks. A process which is coupled to the narrow band of brain temperature could allow all normal human brains to be affected by a subharmonic whose frequency range at about 10 Hz would only vary by 0.1 Hz.”
An Invisible Information Highway
“Like physical light (energy) and elementary particles (mass), consciousness (information) enjoys a wave/particle duality that allows it to circumvent and penetrate barriers and to resonate with other consciousnesses and with appropriate aspects of the environment. Thereby it can both acquire and insert information, both objective and subjective, from and to its resonant partners.”
Nuit Blanche, a la nuMEDIA
Posted on November 7th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: Tools & Resources, Creativity & Ideas, New Media, Culture/Art.
- We record footage from a train traveling outside in rural country.
- Set-up projectors from the ceiling of a subway car in order to project onto at least two screens that exactly fit the existing window.
- Project recorded footage.
- Playback is controlled via micro-controller monitoring the speed of the train.
media Identity: Live @ 11
Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Peter Horvath.
Categories: New Media, Live @ 11, Culture/Art.
Teaching Robots
Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Tobin Stewart.
Categories: New Media, Science/Physics.
New Media is - Part 3
Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Ryan Varga.
Categories: Creativity & Ideas, New Media.
New Media is the propagation of information in an age of existential reproduction.