Tag: virtuality
Guillaume: Visiting Chris Marker in Second Life
I never really lived in Second Life. As an artist working in digital spaces this is patently uncool. But it is true; by the time I stumbled onto the massively multiplayer simulation it was already empty, a shrinking economy and user-base spread across a vast and often-private landscape leaving the world desolate at best. | … |
On Nothing and the Absurd
One fine day, Pierre Anthon, a schoolboy in a regular Danish village, decides that nothing has any relevance. He climbs a tree and from there pontificates his creed: nothing matters. His schoolmates, who have to endure Pierre Anthon’s constant proselytizing, get fed up one day and decide to prove him wrong. The way to do | … |
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Many things that seemed complicated before have become extremely simple today thanks to the emergence and wide use of information technologies. For example, Belgian researcher Derrick de Kerckhove has stated that, nowadays, globalization is imminent, even more so when the use of mobile phones allows us to «take the world into our pocket.» [1] This, | … |
Haikus Without Prescription
“Reconstructing an essence” from the web into print. Today it is practically impossible to die completely. Our online life is a perpetual present, beyond our own disappearance. In this context, a new ritual has been set up to remember the deceased, especially if they were young: look at their Facebook profile, their last | … |