Slow Art

In our digital culture, we can task simultaneously, message instantly, and prototype rapidly, but, in doing so, do we create an oasis for contemplation, or do we fuel a hunger for yet more speed? As technology colors all aspects of our world, we see the inevitable pendular response in campaigns that advocate slowness.

http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/juried/slowart/

• http://www.cittaslow.org.uk/
  

As I age I often have the feeling that I am missing some essential understanding as to why some trends in modern life are a good thing. The increasing speed of culture is one of these trends.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article563715.ece

• http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/grayson_perry.htm
  

These days, it’s quite idealistic to think of the viewer as being anything but distracted, given the kind of image-saturated world that people function in.

http://blog.longnow.org/2007/07/09/slow-art/
http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasontwo/time.html#
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/eno_qa_full?currentPage=2

Conversation Clock

Tables are places to cooperate and discuss amongst others. Conversation Clock seeks to augment the developing dialog by displaying a representation of conversation to all present. The table demonstrates turn-taking, domination, interruption, and activity throughout a conversation.

http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/conversationclock.html

• reference to related project at MIT: http://web.media.mit.edu/~kkarahal/projects/visiphone/
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~kkarahal/projects/visiphone/visiphone.mov
  

http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/papers/pdfs/kkarahalios-conversation-final.pdf
http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/papers/pdfs/bergstrom-Seeing-More.pdf

Seeker - Migration Visualization/Art

Seeker: winner of an Award of Distinction in Interactive Art from the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria

The Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement.

http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=3

Video: http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=64

1 Page Manifesto Summary Exp. 1

Ideas flow freely, simultaneously, and massively across society. The networks and connections that form the internet have been mirrored by social networks and connections that form as the information flows from computer to computer, from device to device, from one person to one person. A coherent, yet incredibly dynamic Web has formed.

However, as the internet has democratized communication and ideas, it has thereby provoked a massive deluge of information. As advertising¹ has flourished, covered over and choked our physical space, so has information, mountains of it, infused our social and mental spaces. How does the one person confront and/or absorb all of the information they encounter in only casual “surfing” of the Gone? “Against unilateral art, situationist culture will be an art of dialogue, an art of interaction… We line to explore the distinct experiences of how the one person and society engage with information. Member/participants, we act on the Gone automatically, forming societies within societies and broadly reflecting a global consensus. The shared mind-space of the Web and the relationship to the one person will no longer be taken for granted. By examining the relationships created within the Web phenomenological questions arise and will hopefully provoke a sense of awe or wonder that transcends ideological divides and any sense of artistic ‘responsibility’.

Kant, Immanuel. OBEY Manifesto - http://obeygiant.com/main_new.php?page=articles&article=0

Situationist Manifesto – SI – 1960 - http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9

- a very key Gonesite and text with regard to illuminating the importance of relationships between information and information and information and people and people and people

Undesign.org - http://undesign.org/2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)

1 First Things First 1964: a manifesto