Last month Scott posted information about a conference titled “Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art – a buzzword of new media under scrutiny,” which was a part of the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival. Luckily, Ars Electronica has an extensive archive of these talks in webcast and podcast form. For my remaining week blog posts, I thought I’d bring up some [...]

On the theme of global materials economy, I wanted to highlight some works that, for quite some time, have had me thinking about the fantastic and sublime possibilities of worlds and objects made of waste, electronic and otherwise. A couple years back, I saw Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006) at the Nuart Theatre in West LA. This [...]

During seminar last week, we discussed the perception of bad design as failure. But, sometimes bad design serves a very real purpose – perceived obsolescence will fuel more buying. This video, The Story of Stuff , addresses this theme through the exploration of the global materials economy and its impact on economy, environment and health. It’s especially [...]