Political Ergonomics

Social Dimensions Of Wearable Computers

Towards User Design

The Revival Of Handicraft

Cold War Hot Houses - Beatriz Colomnia.

An examination of the status of architecture in post war in the US.
-The cold war was a hot house in the way that it produced new spaces for living.
Every aspect of post war american life has become domestic - architecture in terms of massive structures has lost its power to change. now a small domestic object can have infinite power in comparison. "Objects of everyday life involved more radical transformations than the most extreme architectural proposals."

"Public Space could only be sold as a form of domestic privacy similar to the suburbs."

In our society today there is a break down between the idea of public and private place. What goes on in the public is now relitavely domesticated wheras the private life seems to be a copy image of others, for example, television is supplied to the public but viewed in private. Public spaces become domestic and more associated with imagery rather than experience.

Rather than examine the impact of the cold war on american society, this reading seems more to try and define why on earth american society has become more domesticated. surely this can't be laid fully down to cold war paranoia?

Composition Presentation Images

A3

MEDIA
-Ink.
-Reduce down to pure meaning.
-Thought behind is more important?

-Photography as a media, meanings all media have meanings.
-Recreating ideas from different forms of media.


Scale has a meaning.
Relationship of the body to your composition.
-media- sound, video installation, photography.
-Workbook etc. PDF/ powerpoint?

Abstraction. - Theoretical rather than practical.

FUTURE

Future technologies.

271 was a basis to form good decsisions for the future. the future however is unknown.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it!"- Allan Kay.

Robotics.
Asimo - Honda Motor company.
Artificial people has been going for a while.
Roboter - czech "slave labour."

Leonnardo Da vinici contemplated the idea of a humanoid machine
However, non human robotics has shown more sucess (Robustness+Performance.)
MIT robostrider - robotic strider (walks on water.)

IT's 2.007 Annual Mechanical Engineering Robot Contest.

SRL (Survival Research Laboratories.) - performance art by robots - Industrial robot fights.
-Robot wars.
-Junkyard battles.

Robotlab "Jukebots" 2001.
"bios {bible}" 2007
Both blur human - robot relation ship.

Stlarc
"Third Hand" 1981 - We have never had a mind of our own. Our bodies are manipulators. - Zombies + Cyborgs.

Tissue,Culture and art project.
"Disembodied Cuisine" - frog steak, Seperate death from meat.
www.tca.uwa.edu.au

Eduardo Kac - "Alba"
Fluoroescent Rabbit. - How to we deal with life in this form?

Science Ficton.
-traced back AGES.
Mark Shelley (Frankenstein 1818)
Jules Verne
H G Wells
Issace Asimov
Robert A. Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarke
Willam Gibson
Neal Stephenson

2001 space odyssey - Blindly developing technology + dangers.
-Fear of AI has diminished.

New Fear?
-advances in artificial life.
-Artifical intelligence is now organic.

-Star Trek - We copy ideas from it. (palm sized, universal translator, non needle injections.)

- COmplex interplay between science + Science fiction.

"Any sufficiently sophisticated technology is indisinguishable from magic."