=== Resolving Tech/Eco, Past/Future ===

//Notes from a session held at the Luminous Green Retreat, 29th of April 2007//

Oliver Lowenstein and Pix

  * helena hetenen (sp?)
    * fiber optic lace (light installation)
    * old craft + new tech 
  * rediscovering (almost) "lost knowledge"
    * physical experiences 
  * how to not lose things?
    * lace "community" dying
    * loss is a kind of loss of biodiversity 
  * craft as contemporary and exciting
  * crossover between lace / architecture
  * Make / Craft magazines. DIY culture, trendy knitting, increasing
    * one splinter of early (90s) media/net art scene 
  * Roy Ascott (sp?) - do what is not easy (getting new media artists to do something physical)
  * Computer (the object)
    * work practices
    * physical world gives more direct feedback
    * some professions "require" computer use
    * responsive technology
    * computers as symbol of urban. and urban vs rural.
    * networked rural (connection rural and urban)
    * networked vinyard 
  * slow...
  * automation hides knowledge where to draw the line?
  * "abstracting craft" malcolm mculloch (sp?)
  * "the hand" frank ...? evolution of the hand
  * scientific (method) vs spirituality. when did this diverge? 

=== further ===
  * http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4216776.html?series=15