Following from Media Ecology and taking no small degree of inspiration from the work of Marshall McLuhan, NOW WE ARE DIFFERENT (working title) seeks to explore all of the aspects of lived human experience, from our biochemical makeup through to our cultural endeavours, and submit the following provocation: that digital media environments have facilitated a genuine evolutionary shift in human beings.
This blog is where I’ll be keeping notes, developing ideas, bookmarking interesting and relevant items and looking for encouragement, advice, feedback and support.
It seems fitting that Radiohead should provide the way into this exploration. Their new video, House of Cards is made without cameras. Instead, it uses 3D data modelling based on Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. The data has been released for public creation of new data visualisations. And there’s a YouTube group to discuss and share results.
Here’s the video:
And here’s the Making Of:
More information at Google Code:
http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
You may already be aware of Stelarc. He’s been doing performance art based around notions of the digital/robotic body for quite a while now. The Radiohead stuff kind of reminded me of his Partial Head exhibit. A colleague and I once went to see him at a talk at Nottingham Uni (he was a research fellow there) where he freaked out students with his robotic arm.
Dave