Soundscape cutting through Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens on October 29th 2013. Starting at the Grand Parade Entrance, a small boy is reminded that there are rules in parks, mainly that you mustn’t sleep. We follow someone through the park stopping for
Dolls and Angels – Rilke on the problem of language
In his 4th Duino Elegy, Rilke gives a metaphoric statement of the problem of language and recommends a procedure for approaching as far toward the horizon of silence as he considers feasible. A prerequisite of “emptying out” is to be
The non-linear path to success
excerpt from The Non-Linear Path to Success Today has the potential to be one of those days that changes my life forever. For that matter so does every single day of most of our lives. It’s just a matter of what
Acrylic Butter
A magazine article about a small scale manufacturer of an edible product called acrylic butter. The article shows two images. One top left shows a woman in jeans and shirt with sleeve rolled up and Wellington boots. She stands near
Exchanging values – compromise is inevitable
Saturday 19th October saw a few students from the MA Digital media arts course meeting up for Katya’s fabled strawberry cream cake and playing the bean game. This time there were 5 people playing. Cindy, Nana, Katya, her daugher Silva
An experience in the Aether: A hack of the hacker manifesto
Taking a chunk of A HACKER MANIFESTO [version 4.0] by McKenzie Wark readers were invited to create a collective text based on it. You can read final text here Returning to the world of collaborative online performance with Furtherfield after
Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.
Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law. Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to
The ball-of-mud transition: Akvo.org
“A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point
Thinking aloud – trying not to look mad
Today i experimented with Iphone Siri on my way to work. Why? because i feel the need to capture thoughts and ideas as they occur in the spaces between childcare, work and study. These are the times when i am
Bean game with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead 10/10/13
Thursday 10th October saw the first beans game played with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead pub in Brighton. The first game of the Digital Media Arts course. Whilst course leader Sue Gollifer and visiting lecturers Sam Proud and Paul Bunkham