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transit point
The weather turned cooler this morning: autumn is finally here. Thank you, god. Every year, this transition works on me like the beginning of spring does on normal people – it’s the moment when fogginess and torpor give way to bright clarity. This time last year I was doing my PhD confirmation and getting ready…
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Fetishising DIY
The perverse lo-fi, lo-tech aesthetic of DIY tech objects – and a very particular ‘mastery of technologies’ discourse – is showcased here: and here… and here Friday is for…flickr-ing.
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Ideas Festival
The Ideas Festival, four days of ideas, innovation and invention will be held from 29 March to 2 April 2006 at Brisbane’s South Bank. The Festival program includes: o 100 national, international and local speakers o 73 speaker sessions o 23 sessions for secondary students in the new Ideas for Schools program o a free…
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AoIR Panel
[Apologies for loooooong blockquotes] I recently received word that the AoIR 7.0 panel I’m organising with Melissa Gregg, Sal Humphreys, David Berry and Christina Spurgeon has been accepted. The title of the panel is ‘Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Perspectives on the Cultural Economy of New Media’, and here’s the abstract: In recent years there…
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Sharing Stories Redux
I’ve just finished work (with Helen Klaebe and an absolutely crack pair of research/production assistants) on the second series of digital stories for the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories project. This time, we were working mostly with older current and past residents of the Kelvin Grove area, and we’d discovered early on (with the…
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Vibewire.net e-Festival of Ideas
Vibewire.net e-Festival of Ideas :: April 4-8 2006:: Mark it in your diary now, ‘cos you’re invited to the second annual e-Festival of Ideas – a conference with a virtual, democratic twist. Unlike most physical conferences, Vibewire.net’s e-Festival of Ideas is unfettered by geographic locality, free to participate in, and you can have your say…
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Urchin box
This image (in context on flickr and in a personal blog) is a nice example of time-binding, remediated vernacular creativity – a grandmother’s shell collection repurposed and introduced to new publics through a granddaughter’s daily photographic practice. Heaps more at the department of me, where the dignity of ordinary specificity is everything.
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the life you lead
I’ve had this cartoon (on a birthday card) pinned up somewhere in every office or study i’ve occupied since 1994, when a dear friend gave it to me. I saw it this morning and realised that at some point in the recent past, without my noticing, it began to make sense to me the other…
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Public talk on participatory design
I’m going to this – quite excited that there is such an interest in critical design theory in Built Environment and Engineering at QUT: Faculty of the Built Environment and Engineering School of Design and Design Research Theme Invite you for a public talk Design for, by and with users: from participatory design to meta-design…
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Relaxed and comfortable?
I am so deeply angry and upset about this. And the fact that Aunty Delmae Barton should feel she had to say “But I was wearing good clothes” makes me want to disappear. Shame on us.