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Category Archives: Ideas
Beyond ebooks: playful interventions in publishing paradigms
Asked to contribute to the recent Digital Book Summit at Olin College, metaLAB struggled to come up with something novel to offer. Held on a brisk fall day at Olin’s Needham campus, hosted by Olin library director Dianna Magnoni, the … Continue reading
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The place of sound: listening to nature and networks
On Thursday night, a small audience gathered in Boylston Hall to take in an unusual call-and-response performance: legendary musician and field recordist Bernie Krause joined poet and ecocritic Jonathan Skinner in a kind of motet of verse and natural sounds. … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, Bernie Krause, biophony, multimedia, networks and natures, poetry
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Paths to Arborescent Object Teaching, Then and Now
At first glance one might doubt that metaLAB’s collaboration with the Arnold Arboretum finds much harmony with the ambitions of the Arboretum’s founder and first director, Charles Sprague Sargent. But we get a different story when we read Sargent in … Continue reading
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Networks & Natures
As the newest principal of metaLAB, I bring my own set of preoccupations to the group. My splintered interests in ethnography, computing, and architecture often converge in questions about changing human-machine-environment relationships. For instance, in my recent book, Co-Designers: Cultures … Continue reading
Wikipedia and the sum of human knowledge
We’re only a couple of hours into Wikimania 2012, the global gathering of Wikipedians, and fascinating questions are already swirling around the online encyclopedia’s mission “to make the sum of human knowledge accessible to everyone on Earth.” It’s a bracing … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, feral copyright, Jimmy Wales, media, networked culture, Wikipedia
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Beta Release of the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters: One Week
For over a year metaLAB and Zeega have been two of many partners in and outside of Japan working with Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) to build the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters. Other partners in this effort, … Continue reading
Tree rings: primal sounds from the ambient archive
You may recall Bartholomäus Traubeck‘s project Years, which received a nice amount of attention a few months ago: the Austrian artist rigged a turntable with a lens in place of a stylus, and programmed a microcontroller to translate the patterns … Continue reading
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Tagged Arboretum, botany, digital ecologies, music, phonography, Rainer Maria Rilke
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Digital Ecologies at the Arnold Arboretum!
We’re getting the word out on unique design and research opportunities available this summer and into the coming year for our budding collaboration with the Arnold Arboretum. Conceptually situated at the intersection of nature and networks, landscape and media design, … Continue reading
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But it moves: the New Aesthetic & emergent virtual taste
In the wake of South-by-Southwest, Bruce Sterling has posted a grand, thorough, ruminative essay about the New Aesthetic. If you don’t know the New Aesthetic, you should go and have a look at the tumblr that serves as both its … Continue reading
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Of dead trees, living networks, and encyclopedic ambition
At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which the eponymous publishing house announced it would cease publishing after 244 years. “With the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part … Continue reading
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Tagged david weinberger, Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia Britannica, encyclopedism, epistemology, knowledge, networked culture, Tim Carmody
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