Hi All,
I have been very interested to read the discussions so far and am sorry for not
getting involved earlier with the materiality topic. Still, this question of
the performer/audience divide seems to be closely connected with that of
performance and performativity, and of the spectacle
Ashley,
That's a really interesting point you bring up about how the normative body is
configured through the realisation of wearable technology (as fantasy?), and
something that philosopher Don Ihde talks about in his book Bodies in
Technology.
Today I met with Isabel Jones of Salamanda
On the subject of wearable technology on the social dimension, I'd like to add
some examples of projects that have explored this, and also some theorists that
are being looked to by researchers to inform these approaches.
We also have to tease apart what is being made visible in the social
Hallo,
By way of introduction I’d like to propose two more topics for discussion in
relation to wearable technology - methodology and distribution.
First, the broad motivation for most of my work is methodological. I am
interested in the working philosophies this field inherits from others and
Sure Renate, thanks for your questions -
The Friendship Jewellery was a closed network (for technical reasons at the
time), although the platform it used, Speckled Computing, is intended to be
open and entirely peer-to-peer, the enabling technology of Ubiquitous Computing
(see
Dear rgd phd,
yes, we're around, but I believe only for a day or two more
can you tell us a bit more or provide a link to anything in the public realm
you have written (is the thesis public yet?)
The subject of ecologies has been bubbling under at Nottingham Trent Uni for a
while and I am due
I prepared this last night and this morning - I apologise for not being in
touch yesterday like others have time issues - still reviewing many many
students. Unfortunately it seems that while there are responses here to some
questions, I have inadvertently missed others - no offence has been
