Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

2010-07-06 Thread Kevin Hamilton
sure to be there to assert other fantasies, to contribute to their limited sensoria, to remind them of the walls against which they will hit, hopefully before more people get hurt. Kevin Hamilton ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Kevin Hamilton, Carl DiSalvo, Yiannis Colakides and Beatriz de Costa.

2010-04-28 Thread Kevin Hamilton
I've been reading this exchange with much interest, and am very thankful to have seen some new voices here. We hardly need invited guests to keep the momentum going, but I've been saving up my response anyway. So far I've been thinking about how untenable the strategic choices are for

Re: [-empyre-] Hactivating and the Screw-Up

2009-12-12 Thread Kevin Hamilton
do some research and analysis on this - I am too frightened: http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp#/facialprofiler/ Thanks, Sam. On 10/12/2009, at 1:40 PM, Kevin Hamilton wrote: Christina and all, In any of the advertising for personal music devices or cell phones, listeners

[-empyre-] Hactivating and the Screw-Up

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin Hamilton
Thanks Renate, for inviting Christina and I to take the mic, and thanks to Patty and company for the past week's prods to action and thought. Within the Hacktivating Design thread, Christina and I thought to introduce the example of mis-use through humor and mistake, the performed,

Re: [-empyre-] Chindogu and re-design

2009-11-27 Thread Kevin Hamilton
Thanks, Ricardo and all. I'm very happy to learn of the old CAE project - I'd never come across that one! - and I'm also provoked by Margarete's introduction of the pataphysical here. But my concerns, triggered by Machiko's mention of how Chindogu have been received in interaction design

Re: [-empyre-] Chindogu and re-design

2009-11-24 Thread Kevin Hamilton
of play that doesn't reinforce a division between irrational-by-choice and irrational-by-nature? Thank you Kevin Hamilton On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Machiko Kusahara wrote: Hi all, As Renate introduced me in her email, I am currently in LA. During the weekend as we cycled around in our

Re: [-empyre-] Hactivating Design

2009-11-21 Thread Kevin Hamilton
of design and arts education, I'm also looking to steer clear of the technocratic, ahistorical progress machine of modern science (sustainability as economic catalyst). Any thoughts? Maybe a public listserv isn't the safest place to have this conversation? Kevin Hamilton On Nov 20, 2009