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Big Data Bastelstunde
Birgit Bachler shows us creative ways with the Big Data Bastestunde Birgit Bachler, who created the wildly popular Di4l09 network for the 2013 ADA Symposium in Dunedin, brings her code crafting skills to Auckland to share an aspect of her recent exhibition Copy Wildly. Big Data Bastelstunde (“Big Data Craft Hour”) is a one hour workshop exploring […]
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Vanessa Crowe
Moodbank & Imperial Moods City spaces have often been thought about in terms of the functional flows of people and things: the money that is exchanged, the congestion of rush hour, the accumulation of rubbish and the cold face of professionalism. More recently businesses and governments have come to see the value in finding out […]
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Judith Robinson
Tiki in Architecture Judith Robinson is a conjoint lecturer in design at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and is currently a M Phil (Architecture) research student. Remnant architectural and other features of Tiki made before the 1820 iconoclasm tell of Tikis’ former function: there were six broadly prevailing architectural contexts for Tiki across Pacific Oceania […]
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Audrey Samson
ne.me.quittes.pas Mass surveillance is reality. Data fornicates, replicating at quantum speeds, multiplying our traces, sold to the highest bidder or even leaked for free. Selfies, email archives, twitter posts, likes, places, late night chat logs, health insurance records, bank statements, search histories… all those bits of identity, involuntarily immortalized as personality profiles in corporate server farms. Whisper. If […]
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Luke Munn
Digital Disenchantment: Post Digital Practices Luke Munn, is a post graduate student at Colab, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand Amazon Fulfilment Centre – image by Ben Roberts – http://benrobertsphotography.com/commissions/amazon-unpacked/ From Cascone’s digital fluff to Snowden’s revelation of cyberspace as panoptic platform, technology’s ‘glossy innovation narratives’ have finally lost their gleam. Stepping back from the hyperfocused moment of […]