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| ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ==== | ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ==== | ||
| - | notes from the 2014 edition of [[: | ||
| - | {{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14072464649/}} \\ | + | [[:/Lecture notes]] from the 2014 edition of [[: |
| - | === Time's Up === | ||
| - | {{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14256979612/in/set-72157644825294854}} \\ | + | Audio recordings of the talks can be found at -> http://physicalnarration.org/ |
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| + | further details and edits from the dilgent TU note takers -> http://wiki.physicalnarration.org/wiki/index.php/DE14 | ||
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| + | ==== Time's Up ==== | ||
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| + | (see also http://wiki.physicalnarration.org/ | ||
| * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | ||
| * originally computational systems and ecology | * originally computational systems and ecology | ||
| * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | ||
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| * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases | * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases | ||
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| - | === Scott Smith === | + | ==== Scott Smith ==== |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| * Unshocking the future | * Unshocking the future | ||
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| * calibrate uncanniness | * calibrate uncanniness | ||
| * guide the audience toward a future | * guide the audience toward a future | ||
| - | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" | + | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" |
| * getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | * getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | ||
| * different people reacted differently to it | * different people reacted differently to it | ||
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| - | === Peter von Stackelberg === | + | ==== Peter von Stackelberg |
| * using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future | * using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future | ||
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| - | === Eva Lenz === | + | ==== Eva Lenz ==== |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| * http:// | * http:// | ||
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| * need to make a shift from having technology as a starting point to needs and experiences as the beginning | * need to make a shift from having technology as a starting point to needs and experiences as the beginning | ||
| - | === MIT-I === | + | ==== MITI ==== |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| - | Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...) | + | Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...) |
| - | === FoAM === | + | ==== FoAM ==== |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]] | * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]] | ||
| - | === Trevor Haldenby === | + | ==== Trevor Haldenby |
| * Mission Business: interdisciplinary: | * Mission Business: interdisciplinary: | ||
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| * design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | * design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | ||
| * digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | * digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | ||
| - | * strategic foresight at OCAD - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada | + | * strategic foresight at OCADU - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada |
| * i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | * i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | ||
| * Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | * Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | ||
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| * didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | * didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | ||
| * big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | * big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | ||
| - | * ZED.TO | + | * ZED.TO |
| - | ZET.TO ByoLogic | + | ZED.TO: ByoLogyc |
| - | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogic | + | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogyc |
| * futures driven by people involved | * futures driven by people involved | ||
| - | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military | + | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military |
| - | * synthetic pandemic immune deficiency disaster | + | * synthetic pandemic: immune deficiency disaster |
| * 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | * 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | ||
| * 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | * 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | ||
| - | * online narrative - versatile intern program | + | * online narrative - Versatile Intern Program |
| - | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory | + | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory) |
| - | * videos vimeo.com/byologica | + | * videos: vimeo.com/byologyc |
| - | * byologic.com | + | * byologyc.com |
| * apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | * apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | ||
| * funded through indiegogo, awards… | * funded through indiegogo, awards… | ||
| * becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | * becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | ||
| - | * most interesting collab. with Synbiota - open source synthetic biology | + | * most interesting |
| * bringing the future to life: http:// | * bringing the future to life: http:// | ||
| - | Autodesk Shadowfall | + | Autodesk |
| - | * continuation | + | * extension |
| * www.byologyc.com/ | * www.byologyc.com/ | ||
| - | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech | + | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech, strong AI, asteroid mining, exobiology |
| * is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | * is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | ||
| - | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t want this to happen | + | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t |
| - | === Julian Bleecker === | + | ==== Julian Bleecker |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | ||
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| * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | ||
| * http:// | * http:// | ||
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| - | === Justin Pickard === | + | ==== Justin Pickard |
| - | {{>https:// | + | {{>http:// |
| * "in sync?", | * "in sync?", | ||
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| * ' | * ' | ||
| * problematic - neutrality, view from nowhere, or view from above | * problematic - neutrality, view from nowhere, or view from above | ||
| - | * "gods eye view, the arc" to gods eyes views - meddling helenic gods - rationality + playful/ | + | * "gods eye view, the arc" to gods eyes views - meddling helenic gods - rationality + playful/ |
| * google maps - no fixed borders - it depends where you’re looking from | * google maps - no fixed borders - it depends where you’re looking from | ||
| * donna haraway - " | * donna haraway - " | ||
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| * " | * " | ||
| * specialists or generalists? | * specialists or generalists? | ||
| - | * you have to become like a pufferfish - weird and spiky… - bruce sterling | + | * you have to become like a pufferfish - weird and spiky… - bruce sterling((https:// |
| * social, communal deal with uncertain futures | * social, communal deal with uncertain futures | ||
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| * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected | * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected | ||
| * wizzard of Oz | * wizzard of Oz | ||
| - | * legibility (James Scott: Seeing like the state) | + | * legibility (James Scott: |
| * Danah Boyd " | * Danah Boyd " | ||
| * strategy and tactics of revealing (game of Go - trying to surround the opponent) - foresight used to be about strategy, now how can it work as tactics | * strategy and tactics of revealing (game of Go - trying to surround the opponent) - foresight used to be about strategy, now how can it work as tactics | ||
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| * socialisation of uncertainty - our decisions make the world more uncertain for others | * socialisation of uncertainty - our decisions make the world more uncertain for others | ||
| - | * hydra: what becomes stronger through | + | * hydra: what becomes stronger through |
| * creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy | * creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy | ||
| * superstruct, | * superstruct, | ||
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| * if you give players the freedom and surrender control, you get interesting emergent characteristic | * if you give players the freedom and surrender control, you get interesting emergent characteristic | ||
| * jessica @jessginger - delphi party - getting everyone’s friends and family to get consensus | * jessica @jessginger - delphi party - getting everyone’s friends and family to get consensus | ||
| - | * iceland | + | * iceland |
| * urban acupuncture - architecture should do small strategic interventions in public space, making energy flow better | * urban acupuncture - architecture should do small strategic interventions in public space, making energy flow better | ||
| * zine culture | * zine culture | ||
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| * gonzo journalism | * gonzo journalism | ||
| * disruption of conversations and narratives going in a particular direction | * disruption of conversations and narratives going in a particular direction | ||
| - | * anarchist | + | * James Scott "the law of anarchist |
| * be the change you want to see in the world - occupy, the way you live reflects the kind of future you want to live in the world - bootstrapping infrastructure - how do ' | * be the change you want to see in the world - occupy, the way you live reflects the kind of future you want to live in the world - bootstrapping infrastructure - how do ' | ||
| * amplified teams - pooling energies and cooperating using software | * amplified teams - pooling energies and cooperating using software | ||
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| * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff | * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff | ||
| - | ===summaries, | + | ====summaries, |
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| * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint | * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint | ||
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| Possible topics to expand in the booksprint: reaching out, the ethics of on-ramps, how to integrate people compassionately, | Possible topics to expand in the booksprint: reaching out, the ethics of on-ramps, how to integrate people compassionately, | ||
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