Tuesday, February 4, 2003

Eight Bit Antfarm heads for Boston Eight Bit Antfarm, (the interactive, bio-cybernetic, meta-epistemological collaborative sculpture by  Remo Capopiano, Guy Marsden  and yours truly (in the middle) will be part of a show at the the Boston Center for the Arts March 21 - May 11.  Be there, or be cubed.  (Online coverage and exegesis at Guy's and Remo's websites.)   info@blah: exploring data glut In conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival March 21 through May 11, 2003 Mills Gallery Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based nonprofit collaborative, and presented as part of the Visiting Curators Program info@blah will explore information architecture and the navigation of meaningful data and meaningless noise. The show will embrace work that makes the unseen elements of information visible, examines the structures behind information, dissects the process of building an architecture of information, or deconstructs the illusions of technologic media. In daily life we travel through a sea of raw, unfiltered data which subtly and imperceptibly jockeys for primacy in our attention span and memory space. Sometimes we succeed in filtering out the noise, but sometimes the chaos permeates our understanding in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. The lack of synthesis caused by this overload impedes our ability to respond, potentially plunging us into cognitive discord, demanding that we navigate a labyrinth of information loops and propaganda. The result is an intellectual and experiential culture of both productive and misprocessed information. This is a domain where perception shifts and misinformation easily gains sway. Opening reception: Friday, March 21, 6:00 - 8:00pm, free and open to the public. Special Events: TBD - call Events Line for more details: 617.426.7700 Gallery hours: Wednesday & Thursday 12 - 5pm, Friday & Saturday 12 - 10pm, Sunday 12 - 5pm Unless otherwise noted, admission to the gallery and all events is free and open to the public. comments? [] 2:53:50 PM     Lazyweb, the world seems to lack a fisheye lens (nonlinear magnification) image viewer (to expand by "bulging out" a selected region of an image). comments? [] 12:44:09 PM     Grok the Milieu Alex Havalais wrote up a meeting we had at RIT last week to discuss a possible collaboration.  (I've been heads-down preparing a talk called "Field Research in Information Ecology"  presented yesterday.)    He and Mike seem to have taken to a metaphysically-correct paraphrase of "understand the space"  (which is to say, who knows if "blogspace" is a "space?"  Is "understanding" the real goal? What about visualizing?  What about describing, characterization etc.?   Hence... Grok the Milieu Went to Rochester to meet up with Liz Lawley, Jon Schull, Mike Axelrod, and Steve Jacobs and talk about the proposal for a grant to study microcontent/blogs. We threw around some ideas....  http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000240.html#000240 comments? [] 11:58:03 AM     This interesting post suggests that Differences in coverage between France and USA help to explain public opinion differences.   But it is at least as true that public opinion differences explain differences in coverage.   I presume that people tend to buy newspapers whose perspective matches their own, and that editorial stances are (at least in part) market-driven. Differences in coverage between France and USA help to explain public opinion differences. U.N. Weapons Inspector Criticizes Iraq's Cooperation. Hans Blix delineated a long list of problems relating to his ability to adequately ascertain the state of Iraq's arms program. By Julia Preston. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Le rapport des inspecteurs  : pas de nucl[radical]É?aire, doutes sur les armes chimiques et biologiques "The inspectors report: no nuclear, doutes on cemical and biological<weapons>."  [Le Monde: lemonde.com] I make it a habit to read the French newspaper, and listen to the French news whenever possible.  I do this mostly to keep up with my french.  However, I am constantly struck by how radically different the two countries will report on the exact same event.  Never has this been more evident than in yesterday and today's coverage of the UN inspectors report.   As you can see by the headline of these two newspapers, they both had a very different read of the UN inspector's report.  After seeing the differences on how the Iraq story is being reported in both counties, it becomes easier to understand how public opinion in these two countries can be so drastically different. [Rob Dulaney's Radio Weblog] [Blogging Alone] comments? [] 10:59:22 AM

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