On tuesday, I’ve been invited by Maki and Kajsa to introduce my work to their Art & Communication design students at Royal College of Art. The idea of this talk/presentation was to introduce them to as many as possible of the topics that are thrilling me at the moment; giving them an idea and some keys to understand and interact with the digital landscape that surrounds their practice as designers.
To do so, and preserve the coherence of the whole speech without getting to much into details, i decided to consider this talk as a live reblogging experimentation – and produced R-Echos issue 3: Live reblogging. I had a couple of bookmarks ready to be loaded in the browser, I also took with me a box with some nice things inside and a couple of books.
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March 19, 2009
Categories: designing, event, r-echos, republishing, talk
Tags: electronest, live, performance, r-echos issue 3, reblog, reblogging, republishing, talk
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- went to Photographers’ Gallery (Soho archives, and Dryden Goodwin who remided me a lot of facial recognition graphs) and the Saatchi Exhibition (Revolution Continues – a very figurative selection of chinese artists – the piece in the “cellar” was the most exciting). Later in the day: went to the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition; saw (mainly and amongst other things) agrifashionista.tv and Urbania’s installation: a red room reporting on their various experiments about communal life and projects.
- went to the Friday’s DotDotDot lecture at Somerset House; link: DDD17 / talk.
some quick notes:
- William James ‘Pragmatism’ published in 1907
- Naive Set of Theory DDD15 – “passing books with notes” (made me think about dogeared books; read below; I will probably add it later to the DBooks website)
- the notions of Rationalism (w), Empirism (w), Pragmatism (w)
- Gödel ‘On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia ’ published in 1931 in Vienna(google books)
- Einstein said that “one of the most interesting thing of working in the university of (Berkeley?) was the discussion with Gödel on the way back home” – or something like this.
- the notion of Naive, Intuition
- Paul R Halmos ‘Naive Set Theory’
- thought about making a website which like Dog Eared Books would list the films i like, quoting them; a sort of personnal memory. It comes from the fact that this year we have been increasingly watching more and more films every week (Amandine being back at university, we have access to the LCC’s library and their DVDs – just great!)
- watched (amongst other DVDs) ‘A Pervert Guide to Cinema’ – an interresting documentary on perversion trough a couple of selected movies; more specially: this documentary is a very nice Republishing piece along with commentaries: trying to organise the Tlktlk discussion on the topic of republishing and to set a list of guests.
- discovered about Edgser Dijkstra self re publication and Piet Schreuders’ Furore via Pierre.
- went yesterday to the Social Pasta: Maki, Kajsa, Alex (the rich one), Bearen and Momoko were cooking while we watched 2 films: one 20 minutes documentary by les Blanks ‘Werner Herzog eats his shoes’ (YouTube 1, 2) and Errol Morris’ film: Gates of Heaven. Amazing combination and the food as usual was incredible!. And they all had really nice shoes…
* the documentary is a beautiful support and encouragement at self initiated projects.
- Werner Herzog: “I am more and more convinced that the only alternative to film making is cooking. Maybe there’s another alternative which is walking”.
He also said “I don’t believe you have the guts (to make your film), but if you do it, I come to brooklyn eat my shoes when you show the film”.
November 08, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, notes, republishing, talk, thinking loud
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We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk – this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…
The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.
August 29, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, experiments, memory, newly released, notes, offline, project, talk
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