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A Eureka Moment
A EUREKA moment; a sudden insight that changes the way you look at yourself, the world around you, and your place in it
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Christiaan Alberdink Thijm 1 Jan 2001
Regulating the Internet
In August 2001 I attended the international Hackers at Large convention in Enschedé (The Netherlands). Not because I'm a hacker, don't worry, but because I'm a lawyer and was asked to interview Ryan...
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Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 2001
The Synthetic Life Experience Project
Wishes You Good Luck!
Welcome to this happy farewell gathering. Tomorrow a bus will bring you to the airport down in the valley. Before your departure, take your time in saying goodbye to these buildings and gardens. Take...
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Jodi Dean 1 Jan 2001
Multiple Reality 1
Part 1
Jodi Dean's remarks are about the idea of the public sphere and the relation of this idea to computer-mediated interaction. It consists of three sections: 1. What is the public sphere? What kind of...
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Mercedez Bunz 1 Jan 2001
Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings
Or: We Don't Trust Anybody. Shadowing Theory and Technology Constructing Subjects
Bunz's text will focus on the different ways in which the word 'and' formats the relation between reality - which means us, the humans - and the computer. Her ambition is to demonstrate that the 'and'...
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Jodi Dean 1 Jan 2001
Multiple Reality 2
Part 2
So, if the Net is not the public sphere, what is it? Is it just a tool or a medium?
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George Dyson 1 Jan 2001
Project Orion
In 1957, tail fins, not seat belts, were standard equipment on American cars.
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Anatomy of a contemporary capsule-dweller
a capsule-dweller has a question (what is real?)
Take a contemporary home, that is equipped with technologies of action at a distance in the broad sense of the word: telephones, networked computers, newspaper subscriptions, televisions, order-by
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Ingeborg Houwen 1 Jan 2001
Diagram A Speech-in-Space Act 1.1
Science Fiction Performance Drama (Part 1 of 5)
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Ingeborg Houwen 1 Jan 2001
Diagram A Speech-in-Space Act 1.2
Science Fiction Performance Drama (Part 2 of 5)
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Ingeborg Houwen 1 Jan 2001
Diagram A Speech-in-Space Act 2
Science Fiction Performance Drama (Part 3 of 5) Act 2 'de strooi al'
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Ingeborg Houwen 1 Jan 2001
Diagram A Speech-in-Space Act 3
Science Fiction Performance Drama (Part 4 of 5) Akt 3 'Ver niet e ging'
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Ingeborg Houwen 1 Jan 2001
Diagram A Speech-in-Space Act 4
Science Fiction Performance Drama (Part 5 of 5) Akte 4 '(geen titel)'
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Felix Meritis Paul Groot
Reality Engineering and the Computer (en)
31Aug 20012Sep 2001At the end of August 2001, Mediamatic organised in cooperation with The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University a symposium
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Kim Cascone 1 Jan 2002
The Aesthetics of Failure:
'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught.
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Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002
What Happened in Reality
As with all programmes, they never function the way they are written, and the programme of this symposium was no exception. Unfortunately some of the speakers were unable to attend. However enough...
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Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002
Better Than Fantasy
A Three-day Trip
Looking back on the three days of intensive talking, listening, looking and experiencing, I can't feel but having been on a journey, a trip.
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Arie Altena 1 Jan 2002
Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering
Introduction of the symposium Reality Engineering and the Computer
How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end...