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==== Time's Up ==== | ==== Time's Up ==== | ||
+ | (see also http:// | ||
* 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | ||
* originally computational systems and ecology | * originally computational systems and ecology | ||
* now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | ||
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* calibrate uncanniness | * calibrate uncanniness | ||
* guide the audience toward a future | * guide the audience toward a future | ||
- | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" | + | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" |
* getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | * getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | ||
* different people reacted differently to it | * different people reacted differently to it | ||
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- | Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...) | + | Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...) |
==== FoAM ==== | ==== FoAM ==== | ||
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* design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | * design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | ||
* digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | * digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | ||
- | * strategic foresight at OCAD - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada | + | * strategic foresight at OCADU - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada |
* i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | * i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | ||
* Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | * Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | ||
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* didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | * didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | ||
* big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | * big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | ||
- | * ZED.TO | + | * ZED.TO |
- | ZET.TO ByoLogic | + | ZED.TO: ByoLogyc |
- | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogic | + | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogyc |
* futures driven by people involved | * futures driven by people involved | ||
- | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military | + | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military |
- | * synthetic pandemic immune deficiency disaster | + | * synthetic pandemic: immune deficiency disaster |
* 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | * 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | ||
* 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | * 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | ||
- | * online narrative - versatile intern program | + | * online narrative - Versatile Intern Program |
- | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory | + | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory) |
- | * videos vimeo.com/byologica | + | * videos: vimeo.com/byologyc |
- | * byologic.com | + | * byologyc.com |
* apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | * apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | ||
* funded through indiegogo, awards… | * funded through indiegogo, awards… | ||
* becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | * becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | ||
- | * most interesting collab. with Synbiota - open source synthetic biology | + | * most interesting |
* bringing the future to life: http:// | * bringing the future to life: http:// | ||
- | Autodesk Shadowfall | + | Autodesk |
- | * continuation | + | * extension |
* www.byologyc.com/ | * www.byologyc.com/ | ||
- | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech | + | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech, strong AI, asteroid mining, exobiology |
* is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | * is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | ||
- | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t want this to happen | + | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t |
==== Julian Bleecker ==== | ==== Julian Bleecker ==== | ||
- | {{> | + | {{> |
Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | ||
+ | * " | ||
* Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
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* socialisation of uncertainty - our decisions make the world more uncertain for others | * socialisation of uncertainty - our decisions make the world more uncertain for others | ||
- | * hydra: what becomes stronger through | + | * hydra: what becomes stronger through |
* creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy | * creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy | ||
* superstruct, | * superstruct, |