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FCJ-135 Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous Calculation to Wild Interactions
Matthew Fuller and Sónia Matos Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London [Abstract] Introduction In ‘The Coming Age of Calm Technology’, Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown are clear in their assertions. What really ‘matters’ about technology is not technology in itself but rather its capacity to continuously recreate our relationship with the world…
FCJ-134 Reflections on the Philosophy of Pervasive Gaming—With Special Emphasis on Rules, Gameplay, and Virtuality
Bo Kampmann Walther Centre for Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark [Abstract] Introduction Presently there are a number of gameplay definitions, ranging from Sid Meier’s famous assertion of ‘interesting choices’ to Richard Rouse’s concept in which the vibrant iterations of user input and machine output is the decisive factor (Rouse, 2005). Further, ‘gameplay’ seems to…
FCJ-132 Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity
Simon Penny University of California, Irvine [Abstract] Introduction As I write this, at the end of 2010, it is sobering to reflect on the fact that over a couple of decades of explosive development in new media art (or ‘digital multimedia’ as it used to be called), in screen based as well as ‘embodied’ and…
FCJ-131 Pervasive Computing and Prosopopoietic Modelling – Notes on computed function and creative action
Anders Michelsen Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [Abstract] Introduction This article treats the philosophical underpinnings of the notions of ubiquity and pervasive computing from a historical perspective. The current focus on these notions reflects the ever increasing impact of new media and the underlying complexity of computed function in the broad…
FCJ-133 The Scripted Spaces of Urban Ubiquitous Computing: The experience, poetics, and politics of public scripted space
Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Pold Center for Digital Urban Living, Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University [Abstract] The computer is moving out into physical and urban reality. Since Mark Weiser’s call for a ‘computer for the 21st century’ in 1991 a migration from the screen and the desktop towards integrating computers and networks into…
FCJ-130 Embedding response: self production as a model for an actuated architecture
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Karin Bech CITA Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Introduction Ubiquitous computing positions a world where computation is embedded into our surrounding environment. Rather than retrieving information and communication from distinct devices (PCs) removed from contexts and activities, ubiquitous computing proposes that the mediated can…
FCJ-129 Ubiquity Editorial (Cont.) – Interaction Designs for Ubicomp Cultures
Ulrik Ekman Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [Abstract] I. Ubicomp Cultures: Hyperbolic Vision, Factual Developments This is a journal issue invested in remarking more than once upon the undecidability hovering today around our getting into contact with ‘ubiquity’ or ‘pervasiveness’ as a potential to be further actualized in the fields of…
FCJ-128 A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the Future of the Web
Fenwick McKelvey. York / Ryerson Universities, Toronto I found Drupal in the summer heat of the riverside town of Rosario, Argentina during an internship with a women’s rights organisation in the city. The Canadian government funded me to help the organisation with their information technology, part of a program to promote Canada’s reputation as a…
FCJ-127 Concrete Software: Simondon’s mechanology and the techno-social
Simon Mills. De Montfort University, Leicester. [Abstract] In this article I will discuss the philosophy of technology developed by Gilbert Simondon, predominantly in his 1958 book The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, with a particular concentration on his concepts of associated milieu and concretization. The article provides an introduction to Simondon’s theory of technological…
FCJ-126 The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After Control
Michael Dieter Media Studies, The University of Amsterdam. [Abstract] There is a last enterprise that might be undertaken. It would be to seek experience at its source, or rather, above that decisive turn where, taking a bias in the direction of our utility, it becomes properly human experience. (Bergson, 1991: 184) Tactical media (TM) was…
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