JunkWare.v.1

"reverse transmediation" is twofold: (1) extraction and analysis of an on-line hypermediatic archive on the topic of "junk DNA", and (2) extraction from this archive of a sample of significant contributers to be interviewed.

YouTube - Elephant Painting

Patently Silly - The Humor of Invention - presented by Daniel Wright

Ivy reveals gripping secret

rootlets end in fingers or disks, hundreds of micrometres long

Audeo ~ Speak Your Mind

The Audeo creates an interface for communication without the need of motor control or speech ... +

The Horror...The...uh...horror..?

Henry Miller - Bathroom monologue 1

via:Spot the 80s Video Cliche with Justice

Animate Projects - Magnetic Movie

Electronic Literature: New Horizons For The Literary

A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the field and an analysis of its importance, breadth, and wide-ranging implications for literary study.

"Our relationships, which once raised us into
the public realm, are being rapidly volatilized,
our infinite access is also a kind of infinite
reservation, and our power for word and deed
is giving way to a power for petrification."

Read this doc on Scribd: 2007 - The Public Realm

Maybe Meme

The Memory Hole > Excerpts From "War Against War!"



Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

question—How in your opinion are we to prevent war?—still unanswered.

The End of Books -- Robert Coover (1992)

Much of the novel's alleged power is embedded in the line, that compulsory author-directed movement from the beginning of a sentence to its period, from the top of the page to the bottom, from the first page to the last. Of course, through print's long history, there have been countless strategies to counter the line's power, from marginalia and footnotes to the creative innovations of novelists like Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Raymond Queneau, Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino and Milorad Pavic, not to exclude the form's father, Cervantes himself. But true freedom from the tyranny of the line is perceived as only really possible now at last with the advent of hypertext, written and read on the computer, where the line in fact does not exist unless one invents and implants it in the text.

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (Video)

RETHINKING WASTE

Seven Blunders of the World - Mahatma Gandhi :

# Wealth without work

# Pleasure without conscience

# Knowledge without character

# Commerce without morality

# Science without humanity

# Worship without sacrifice

# Politics without principle

sponge/projects/M1

M1 explores the cusp between visible and invisible performance, between scripted and chance events and emergent social patterns.

M1 can be performed by anyone, anywhere. The first iteration of M1 by sponge took place at Tressider Plaza, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califonia during the spring of 1997.

M1 is a barely perceptible anomaly that does not emerge into the visible during one cycle of viewing. It makes a slow and cumulative imprint.

"Humanity's present rate of total energy consumption amounts to only one four-millionth of one percent of the rate of its energy income. ...Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.”
-- Buckminster Fuller, from the introduction to Critical Path

Vexations - Erik Satie:

"In order to play this motif 840 times consecutively to oneself, it will be useful to prepare oneself beforehand, and in utter silence, by grave immobilities."