I was reading the comments on an article posted by Khoi Vinh on Subtraction to see what the discussion was about. Now most of the time when I do this, I like to click around a little bit to see what kind of people are posting those comments, always hoping to find something interesting. This time I got lucky. I found something which is really worth sharing.
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Two weeks ago I followed workshop given by Graham Smith, a Canadian computer scientist/artist who specializes in telepresence. We met up at V2, Institute for the unstable media and started out. 4 days we lived according to MIT’s “Demo or Die” principle. The whole idea was to think of something to make telepresence a more personal experience and than build an Alpha (read: wood, duck tape and a whole lot of technical goodies) prototype of it. After some brainstorming we decided to add touch and life-sized images to the whole experience and I don’t think that any of us could have imagined that it would work out so well.

This is how the installation basically looked like:

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This is a question which I increasingly hear. And my answer to this is a simple and bold: NO. “Well what is it going to do than? Because I couldn’t imagine that it wouldn’t have hardly any impact.”
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Lately my attention got drawn to a discussion that has been going on about user centered design. Andy Daerden stated that user centered design is a bad idea, which is a very interesting statement to make. After reading a post about it on experentia I started to understand his point of view. He came with the alternatives of community centered design and deployment centered design, which to me makes complete sense. The difference is that these types of design are based on a principal of some form of social interaction, which I believe is a really good direction for the future development of media.
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Finally I finished my website. I’ve been working on it for a while and I still want to change so much more. In fact, I allready want to redesign the whole thing, but lets not go there yet. I’ve been more than bussy lately, time isn’t exactly on my side, I had to cut back on a lot of functionallity behind this site in order to finish it within a respectable time limit. But for now I’m just glad everything is up and running, so you’ll just have to deal with it, at least for the next couple months.
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