Joel Gethin Lewis
A remote presentation to SDE, Friday 6th August 2021.
The challenge is to design interfaces as elegant and universal as those that nature has evolved.
Image from research by Ilia Solov’yov and Klaus Schulten.
Global warming is a Hyperobject. It’s everywhere around us, but we can only see its lower dimensional effects.
See Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton. Image via Wikipedia article on the Hypercube.
In an augmented reality future, how we signal to each other in secret ways will become even more important.
Image via Wikipedia article on the handkerchief code. Also see Hobo Signs.
Image by Dhiru Thadani.
See fantastic short documentary on the artist Vera Molnar, and how she harnesses randomness in her work: "there is a thing that can replace intuition. It's randomness... it enriches the senses."
You don't have much time. Why not do something interesting? You probably have time for four or five 10 year projects. What are they?
Image and article by Wait But Why.
It's our job to experiment wildly! We have to test the future. Then slower things can filter those tests.
Image and article by Stewart Brand.
"Very creative people get atemporal early on. Are relatively unimpressed by the “now” factor, by latest things. Access the whole continuum.
Less creative people believe in “originality” and “innovation”, two basically misleading but culturally very powerful concepts. #
Your bleeding-edge Now is always someone else’s past. Someone else’s ’70s bellbottoms. Grasp that and start to attain atemporality."
Image by Gonzo Bonzo.
See "Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics" by SuperFlux.
Image by SuperFlux.
See this amazing list of (digital) morphogenesis resources.
Image and article by Jason Webb.
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