Archive: 2006

Towards an Ecology of Media Ecology

Should any society that can’t deal with the waste it produces be allowed, allow itself, to produce anything new? Why should we be celebrating the creative use of computers, electronics, media systems, when they are simply plastic wrapped condensations of heavy metals and other poisons? Can we imagine a technology that is able to disentangle [...]

Introduction to XmedK (Nadine.be, Foam, Okno, Imal)

The Computation of Space

1 ‘Technological progress’ has generated many new materials, and incorporated computation into many levels of their fabrication. This has established the possibility to create a new diversity of spatial forms and to begin to identify experimental methods of construction that weave the foundational abstraction of computation into their fabric. Once the joints are in place [...]

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Text by Dragana Antić and Matthew Fuller for the ‘Calculation Space’ project at Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels.