(((CULTURAL RESONANCE)))

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

Information mapping for puzzling out the networks of power and relationships underlying major U.S. companies

Overview and insight into navigating this massive multi-user 3D world

in depth with artist working with databases and design, remix and re-imagings of animation. Network realism?

"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.

Just all over the place...

...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?

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.

kinetic projection onto body surfaces

Interview with Kodwo Eshun, author of More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Exciting insight and fresh perceptions on music, media, technoculture, sci-fi and afro-futurism

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)

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

video essay and research prompts from Digital Ethnographer Michael Wesch. socio-cultural trajectories on anonymity, transparency and spaces in-between