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anndeforest | Obsolescing
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Watching technologies as they wane. April 29, 2013. A workstation of the future, as imagined in the 1970s. Nothing becomes obsolescent faster than predictions and projections for the future. This marvelous photo comes courtesy of Retronaut. 8220;see the past like you wouldn’t believe”) an online “bulletin board” of wacky, nostalgic, and absurd images from that vast, inexhaustible territory we call the past. 365 Days of Obsolescing. April 24, 2013. Day One – Light Meter. On Day 365, the Obsolescence Proje...
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Speakers | The Cineflux Symposium - May 19-21, 2011
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The Cineflux Symposium – May 19-21, 2011. The Cineflux Symposium @ NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr Laura U. Marks. Is the Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University. A scholar, theorist, and curator of independent and experimental media arts, she is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema. Embodiment, and the Senses. Duke University Press, 2000), Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. The Centre for Jewish Studies. Professor Ka...
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Obsolescing | watching technologies as they wane | Page 2
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Watching technologies as they wane. Newer posts →. May 15, 2012. In a previous post. I wrote about the long, second life of outmoded technologies and utilitarian objects as digital icons on our smartphones and computer screens:. What happens when that past technology doesn’t seem all that iconic? Case in point is the much maligned, rarely mourned floppy disk as icon for “save.”. Designers at Tobias and Tobias Interactive in England discuss this problematic skeuomorph in a recent blog post. Both sites are...
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Retro Future | Obsolescing
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Watching technologies as they wane. 365 Days of Obsolescing. April 29, 2013. A workstation of the future, as imagined in the 1970s. Nothing becomes obsolescent faster than predictions and projections for the future. This marvelous photo comes courtesy of Retronaut. 8220;see the past like you wouldn’t believe”) an online “bulletin board” of wacky, nostalgic, and absurd images from that vast, inexhaustible territory we call the past. This entry was posted in de Forest. 365 Days of Obsolescing.
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More Typewriter Tales | Obsolescing
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Watching technologies as they wane. A Boy and His Typewriter. Is the Diary Dead? October 8, 2012. Ryan Ashley and his typewriter Jolene hang out their shingle at Clark Park Farmer’s Market. You name your typewriters? I named this one, he answers.). Jolene, it turns out, is one of four typewriters this poet, Ryan Ashley, owns. He found this one at a flea market, purchased her for $45, and spent another $100 restoring her to her current sheen and efficiency. Watching them watch him, I think about hurdy-gur...
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365 Days of Obsolescing | Obsolescing
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Watching technologies as they wane. Is the Diary Dead? Retro Future →. 365 Days of Obsolescing. April 24, 2013. It seems fitting, given Obsolescing’s retrospective focus, that I’m informing you of Deanne Achong’s brilliant blog, The Obsolescence Project. After it’s already ended. For 365 days (with minimal breaks for flu, a wedding, and other of life’s interruptions), Achong, a Vancouver-based artist, has documented a different “useless object” each day. Day One – Light Meter. Day 365 – Fossil. Though th...
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Is the Diary Dead? | Obsolescing
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Watching technologies as they wane. 365 Days of Obsolescing →. Is the Diary Dead? November 28, 2012. And this week the New York Times asked me to muse on the future of the diary. Are we losing the capacity to be honest? Wait, were we ever honest? Have we ceased to value privacy? Wait, were diaries ever purely private? Will we still have valuable personal records in 2050 (wait, aren’t we writing more than ever? And aren’t more of us writing? No doubt there is still room for debate. Enter your comment here.