Not an ontography but an exploded view of the internet’s intercontinental cables, where they are, what they are, what it might mean: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8204655/submarine-cables-internet
Wonder
Ian Bogost talks about the two senses of wonder. There is to wonder about something where it is like a puzzle or conundrum. Something to be solved. For us that becomes an invitation to account for it, explain it inRead more…
Week 3, Studio 1
We pinned up ontographs, spoke to them, then Adrian did one of his long rambles. (YMMV.) Everyone completed a template to provide feedback for each ontograph too, largely to realise thi is how the final one will be marked. ARead more…
On flexible rooms and worlds
Monique on flexibility in thinking. (I’d extend this, what is it to be a flexibile thinker, what is it to think ‘flexibility’, what is it to be thought by flexibility?). Michaela begins to notice our anthropomorphism. Her phrase ‘exist inRead more…
Musings
Stefan begins to realise the question we are being posed is what is the thing, not what is my relationship to the thing. Paris also picks up the central theme that is not how do objects relate to me (whatRead more…
Material Practices
What is an Apple watch? One answer is at http://atomicdelights.com/blog/a-glimpse-at-how-the-apple-watch-is-made
Reading 03
This reading is from Bettina Frankham’s PhD thesis (she’s an academic at UTS in Sydney). Frankham, Bettina Louise. “Complexity, Flux, and Webs of Connection.” A Poetic Approach to Documentary : Discomfort of Form, Rhetorical Strategies and Aesthetic Experience. (2013). 137-176. pdf,Read more…
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Thin, This Week
Carl has notes on noticing, anthropomorphism, phenomenology, and some lists. Ali picks up the comment in the discussion about ‘making without imposing’, followed by thinking about perception as an act that reduces what is to what is perceived. Michaela hasRead more…
Tail Chasing
I reckoned the studio, after one week, needed a reboot. Tuesday wasn’t quite the full reboot. A lot of talking not enough making. Also realising the shape of the classroom isn’t good for this sort of work. Everyone is soRead more…