Vernacular Web/ 90s Aesthetic
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We are all artists of our own lives, and our shared realities. In an age where no authority is left to tell us what to believe, when science, media and even common sense appear tainted with institutionalized bias, only questions, creativity and bravery have holding power. Art can be considered a struggle for emotional honesty and a search for new aesthetic possibilities. It can be seen as the expressive science of the absurd and the true. It cannot be tested, though it will be tried.
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Anne Helmond & Geert Lovink during Geert Lovink's book launch of Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media.
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It has been well documented that Obama’s fast and steady rise to the steps of the White House was partly due to an uncanny mixture of classical grassroots politics and the embrace of new technology (read social media).
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We made a new work about the web of the 90s — Once Upon .
When I started to work on the World Wide Web I made a few nice things that were special, different and fresh. They were very different from what was on the web in the mid 90's. I'll start with a statement like this, not to show off my contribution, but in order to stress that -- although I consider myself to be an early adopter -- I came late enough to enjoy and prosper from the "benefits of civilization".
Olia Lialina. A Vernacular web. Indigenous and Barbarians.
Olia Lialina: Vernacular Web 2
And today, in the end of June 2007, when we hear of amateur culture more often than ever before, the cultural influence of “Welcome to My Home Page” web pages looks especially interesting.Every term I give an introduction to Interface Design studies to new students. 99% of them are under the delusion that the design of everything in the world is made in Photoshop or other Adobe products. In case the design is to be perceived on a computer, these Adobe files will be thrown into a room full of programmers who are longing to make it all interactive according to noble ideas embedded in the graphics. So the task is to show non-fictional challenges of new media and to explain why to study Interface Design. (To make it short here: interface designers develop projects that will be handed over to photoshoppers to put gradients on buttons.)
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Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader , Olia Lialina , one of the book’s editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as Facebook and others as MySpace—preferring a conformist and clean interface persona, or a rebellious and visually pimped one, respectively. This book, co-edited by Dragan Espenschied , is by all outward appearances a MySpace, brimming with exuberant design elements culled from all over the net and reaching deep into online history. The dust jacket repeats a background image of a unicorn perched on a boulder at sunset under a meteor shower.
On December 29th 2010 my music project Education Of The Noobz is invited to Uwe Schenk Trifft at Stuttgart's State Theatre. Uwe's highly talented show band is going to play some of my compositions -- together with my Atari. And in between I am going to explain how i make soundchip music. FOR THE TRUE HEADZ!! I will be moderating an episode of Trailblazers , the mindblowing web surfing contest, at the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, on 2010-09-03.
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Politiker des digitalen Zeitalters müssen endlich erkennen, dass der Verlust der Kontrolle die Regel kommunikativen und politischen Handelns sein wird, so lange das Verständnis der Software quasi-magisch bleibt und die Institutionen im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert steckenbleiben. Die Grundtugend in einer Gesellschaft, in der Computer alles wissen, ist Skepsis.
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And we've been trashing our historyResources