(((CULTURAL RESONANCE)))

IMMERSIVE VIDEO EXPERIENCE.. kind of..

the novelty of interaction sort of eclipses the immersion...or maybe it's all about that micro-duration of novelty, that blip of immersion/promise of immersion---however temporary. Micro-durations of immersion may be the 'difference that makes a difference' in the data-glut of everyday mediated life?

video performance duo, 'granulating' image and sound, re-sequencing human actors into machine-like entities. Described by artist/writer Tom Sherman as "like watching the accelerated evolution of our species through time-lapse photography"

information age folk hero/trickster, this site has more details on the exploits of anonymous individuals who have worked under the 'open reputation' of Luther Blissett

Summary: Contrary to much of the hype that posits cyberspace as the uncontested domain of rugged individualists, computer networks and traffic exhibit deeply social and political roots. The Internet is neither inherently oppressive nor automatically emancipatory; it is a terrain of contested philosophies and politics. After a brief review of the politics of electronic knowledge, we discuss the ways in which the Internet can be harnessed for counterhegemonic (antiestablishment) political ends. We focus on progressive uses, including the confrontation of nomadic power and rhizomic power structures, in which the local becomes the global. We also offer an encapsulation of right-wing uses. Throughout, we see cyberactivism as a necessary, but not sufficient, complement to real-world struggles on behalf of the disempowered.

Collaborating with technology to create music. Not in the way you would think.

NPR interview with Dr. Steve Mann. Discusses 'sousveillance'...or cyber-logging. I think someone might have talked about this before, but I am not sure...

Steve Mann is fascinating character, we're reading essay on Sousveillance for next week.

The function of this piece of technology is used to better immerse yourself in your surroundings, with seamless access to information.

This is a cool video from research scientist Beverly Harrison and company working on the OASIS (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project at Intel Labs. They recently gave a demo of the project at CES this year featuring a Kinect style camera and projector. Also, shows a collection of artists working on augmented engineering.

Consists of the ways in which works are being flooded out into the world, while happening with the intention of people seeing them, but because of the ways in which technology has grown, the open work quality is available in means of using new media...

data visualizaiton and information design blog. Evidencing a space for imagining invisible, giving form to data flows

Allows you to navigate through a world of video. non-linear video viewing. and you can click on the videos to learn more about them.

artist working at intersections of real and virtual, live and post.

research and development from Portland's premier Cyborg Anthropologist, Amber Case.

performance art group operating in Second Life, is this a site for recombinant theater?

"This cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness."

this is more hacker art. trickin the catholic church.