quinta-feira, 09 de setembro de 2004

The Public, West Bromwich, England Antonio C-Pinto: The new building for The Public, designed by a varied group of architects, interior designers and new media developers — Aslop, BKD and Digit, gives proeminence to one of the first large projects related to a post-contemporary understanding of the arts in a glocal world. “ The Public is everyone. Everyone who's creative. Everyone who has ideas. You are a member of the public already, if you've got an idea you want to realise. The Public is for dreamers, thinkers, doers, lookers. The Public, formerly known as Jubilee Arts, has been carrying out pioneering community arts work for nearly thirty years in West Bromwich and the surrounding area. The Public is now taking this experience forward in an exciting project to create the Public Building, the largest community arts development in Europe. The Building will be a place to dream and realise your creativity in an inspiring, hands-on arts space, as well as somewhere you can learn, be entertained and relax. The Public has been at the forefront of community arts development working on projects with a wide range of people from young people excluded from school to those living on a local estate to homeless people. During these projects, innovative exhibitions, performances and products have been created which communicate a variety of issues relating to health, regeneration, social inclusion and education to wider audiences. ” 12:03:53 AM  Google It!  comment []

TraceEncounters and nTAGs. David Pescovitz: TraceEncounters is a social network technology that debuted at the Ars Electronica festival last week. One-thousand infrared-enabled stickpins were distributed to attendees. The pins "remembered" the unique identifier of every other pin that comes into range. When the wearer walked past a central display, his or her data was downloaded into a PC that generated a visualization of the entire network. Link (via Near Near Future) TraceEncounters sounds like an extremely stripped-down nTAG, a digital namebadge that helps wearers at conferences identify what they have in common and build their social networks. My friends Rick Borovoy and George Eberstadt spun nTAG out of Rick's PhD research at the Media Lab. Link [Boing Boing] 12:01:38 AM    comment []

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