Hi all,
This is a great project. Spimes are not intrinsically designed for surveillance , and as Simon noticed 'The information in information technology always travels both ways'. I also work on some 'imaginary spimes' and i think that this term coined by Bruce Sterling is a powerfull operative concept, for art and design. There is also a "Spime design workshop" in Second Life monday, june 29 at 21H CET, you cand take part by registering here (it's free): http://bit.ly/sdw-application -- Yann Le Guennec http://www.yannleguennec.com Ruth Catlow a probablement écrit : > -------- Forwarded Message -------- *From*: Chris Speed > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Dear all and everyone, > > A series of research opportunities are available to support a large > EPSRC project exploring social memory in the emerging culture of the > Internet of Things. > > Research Associate, UCL. Fulltime. Duration: 3 years. Start: Sept 09 > Research Associate, UCL. Fulltime. Duration: 2 years. Start: Sept 09 > Project Administrator, ECA. Fulltime. Duration: 3 years. Start: Aug > 09 Studentship, Fulltime. Dundee. Duration: 3 years. Start: Sept 09 > Studentship, Fulltime. ECA. Duration: 3 years. Start: Sept 09 > > *Please visit: * http://www.youtotem.org And then click on links to > find application details Various deadlines are in place. > > *TOTeM* > > “Spimes are manufactured objects whose informational support is so > overwhelmingly extensive and rich that they are regarded as material > instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes begin and end as > data. They’re virtual objects first and actual objects second.” Bruce > Sterling, Shaping Things, (2005) > > The TOTeM project is located within the emerging technical and > cultural phenomenon known as ‘The Internet of Things’. The term is > attributed to the Auto-ID research group at MIT in 1999, and was > explored in depth by the International Telecommunication Union who > published a report bearing the same name at the United Nations net > summit in 2005. The term, ‘Internet of things’, refers to the > technical and cultural shift that is anticipated as society moves > towards a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is ‘on’, > and every device is connected in some way to the Internet. The > specific reference to ‘things’ refers to the concept that every new > object manufactured will also be able to part of this extended > Internet, because they will have been tagged and indexed by the > manufacturer during production. It is also envisaged that consumers > will have the ability to ‘read’ the tags through the use of mobile > ‘readers’ and use the information connected to the object, to inform > their purchase, use and disposal of an object. > > The implications for the Internet of Things upon production and > consumption are tremendous, and will transform the way in which > people shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has > for so long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shop’s inventory > system, will be superseded by an open platform in which every object > manufactured will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through > manufacturer to distributor, to potentially every single person who > comes into contact with it following its purchase. Further still, > every object that comes close to another object, and is within range > of a reader, could also be logged on a database and used to find > correlations between owners and applications. In a world that has > relied upon a linear chain of supply and demand between manufacturer > and consumer via high street shop, the Internet of Things has the > potential to transform how we will treat objects, care about their > origin and use them to find other objects. If every new object is > within reach of a reader, everything is searchable and findable, > subsequently the shopping experience may never be the same, and the > concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the past as > other people find new uses for old things. > > *The project team are:* > > • Maria Burke, Salford • Andrew Hudson-Smith, UCL • Angelina > Karpovich, Brunel • Simone O’Callaghan, Dundee • Morna Simpson, > Dundee • Chris Speed, (PI) Edinburgh College of Art > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
