(((CULTURAL RESONANCE)))

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

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"

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

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

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

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

video, theory and practice by JAWA pioneer Tasman Richardson.

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

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

"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."

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

It's amazing how rudimentary it already almost seems, but note the points she brings up: -Immersion, but with "LACK of socialization" (4:02) in regards to spreading of germs (an arguably necessary part of human longevity). But in regards to ACTUAL socialization, she confirms that this interface will support the ability "to be able to confront each other, to see each other, to talk to each other." -Time-travel (3:20) -Extreme proficiency

I think that this is a room that uses projectors to project two images, designed by the computer to mimic 3d space and objects in space for your interactive pleasure.

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.

One of his projects. The rest can be found at http://jonrafman.com/

Here is his essay detailing the project: http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/

Tom Sherman's reflections on questions of art, information and value in age of constant updates, versions, etc