(((CULTURAL RESONANCE)))

Section: Digital Objects in E-learning Environments. There is actually quite a few interesting selections of writing for a lot of our topics though. (full text in pdf form, it takes a while to load)

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

There are terrific tools (like PGP and GPG) for encrypting your mail. If somebody along the way looks at the mail they can't understand it. But they do know you are sending encrypted mail to your pal. The answer: encode your message into something innocent looking.

Surgeons are amongst the highest paid professionals in the medical world today. They are the 'miracle-workers' of the 21st century, providing blood transfusions, heart transplants and prosthetic limb replacements in order to save and transform the lives of their patients. Nevertheless, the place of the surgeon amongst today's medical elite was not always guaranteed.

Plaid Stallions is dedicated to the 70's, using department store catalogs like Sears and Eatons as well as toy industry publications, polyester fashion mockery, shag carpeting and toy love are the orders of the day

Just all over the place...

"The official Ogrish Forums - Uncover Reality" This is a forum site that showcases gore and death while remaining anonymous. Videos that are banned in the US are usually on here.

This site shows a some sort of a "mutant" that Dietz describes. Its a form to moan the death, through a familiar face of online communities. What is interesting is the people dead can not post them..

this video essay is humorous and insightful study of the curious and multi-linear world of remediation. Previously imperceptible uses and audio imaginaries proliferate at the outer limits of intended functionality

These people have made the best of enforced boundaries. Instead of being upset with the fence, angry and focusing on the separation, they have merged together in an interaction via a volleyball

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

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?

...thoughts? Like is it immersive enough to use as treatment?

Or, is it BECAUSE it's not entirely immersive that it's effective?

There's always something lost in translation, but if an image is worth thousands of words, this maybe is key to its effect ---the process is more immersive via various senses ---but is aimed at therapy not immediacy or immaculate realism---so, as you suggest, this diminished immersion perhaps helps process?

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

NYtimes article about the rise of this curious 'multi-use' brand identity doppleganger!

Informative article with more insight and ideas around Hasan Elahi and his art practice

various graphical representation of geographies, flows and functions of new(ish) electronic spaces