One thing you seem to have got scarily accurate is the way advertising is weaved into the world around. Is that something that you foresaw coming, or just a good, estimated guess?
Two fascinating projects by Joe Malia and aimed at exploring design for the “computer obsessive”: a “computer hood” and a “scarf/Playstation tunnel”, to “facilitate an amplified engagement between user and the computer, secluding them in a digital enclosure where the outside world is a memory and attention undivided”.
So, as I mentioned the other day, I’m in Los Angeles this summer, being a visiting researcher at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The project I’m working on there is called “CURIOUS RITUALS: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday” and we’ve just set up a blog about it.
… oh and btw, I’ve been quiet here because I’ve been busy on different fronts: - relocating to California for the summer, doing a “visiting researcher” residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, working on a project about gesture (that I’ll blog about as soon as there is something to show) - writing the…
Recently the independent culture research lab ZZZINC interviewed me for the Mosaic online magazine. It was a pleasure to answer Paco González‘ questions on our practice at Near Future Laboratory and our work on urban data. The result is now online: Entrevista a Fabien Girardin (English version).