Jason Nelson digital art and poetry Panopticism Keynote address for "Earth to Avatars"26 October 1996 Mark Pescempesce@netcom.com Part One: A Brief History of the Virtual Word What is interesting is that we’ve never envisioned cyberspace as anything but a social space. Gibson’s Matrix was filled with users - legal and illegal - AI’s and, when it changed, the Loa of Voudon. Gibson dreams his tech but Stephenson has it down cold; so everything in the Matrix is perfect, while The Street, populated with barbies and low-rez avatars gave us a real direction, a real vision. The success of The Palace and Alphaworld - which must be admitted as immature technologies - proves the existence of a powerful drive to connect. Because connection is the only thing in that space is real, the only thing that persists after the servers go down and the networks jam up. An avatar, then, serves one purpose above all - as a vehicle of communication. Part Two: Self in Cyberspace What does this digital incarnation of the self communicate? Cyberspace: First Steps.
Trippy Apps - A Selection of Trippy Software, Websites, and Screensavers Headmap Redux location aware devices localisation . community and spatial interfaces . location aware devices . nomads . mapping sex . future architecture [life without buildings] . unlearning . new geography . community schisms . waypoints headmap redux wearable computing, retinal displays, distributed wireless mesh networks and semantic web standards are the foundation of an outside internet. It has been said that 80 percent of human knowledge has a spatial aspect – yet at the same time the Internet has largely ignored this. introduction know your place there are notes in boxes that are empty every room has an accessible history every place has emotional attachments you can open and save you can search for sadness in new york people within a mile of each other who have never met stop what they are doing and organise spontaneously to help with some task or other. in a strange town you knock on the door of someone you don’t know and they give you sandwiches. paths compete to offer themselves to you background
25 Awe-Inspiring Reminders Of Just How Insignificant We Are: Prepare to feel tiny. Source: Mike Read (WFAU), UKIDSS/GPS and VVV / via: ph.ed.ac.uk Source: nasa.gov Source: eso.org Source: 360cities.net Source: apod.nasa.gov Source: spaceflight.nasa.gov Source: nasa.gov Source: eso.org Source: Greg Scheiderer / via: seattleastronomy.com Source: eos.unh.edu Source: sci.esa.int Source: Stéphane Guisard / via: astrosurf.com As seen on Buzzfeed.com Credit: Nasa.gov Eso.org Headmap headmap.pdf mapping out spatialised computing [95pp : 2.3MB : 10/03] headmap manifesto first released [SF : London : NYC] 1999 [reviews and remarks] headmap The space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. there are notes in boxes that are empty every room has an accessible history every place has emotional attachments you can open and save you can search for sadness in new york people within a mile of each other who have never met stop what they are doing and organise spontaneously to help with some task or other. in a strange town you knock on the door of someone you don't know and they give you sandwiches. paths compete to offer themselves to you life flows into inanimate objects the trees hum advertising jingles everything in the world, animate and inanimate, abstract and concrete, has thoughts attached
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