All the initial lecture (weeks 1-4) were very similar to our First Year history paper Modernism, PoMo...) and a nice refresher for the follwing material.
Media Art and Computing.
Puts computing in perspective. Todays computers are new technology but computing is not a new phenomenom.
John Wilkins
Charles Babbage
Ada King
Turing
Konrad Zuse
Doug Englebert
many others...
Networks and Open Source
Facinating lecture, especially open source and it's possibllities.
Things to check:
Archigram
Super Studio
Reprap (very cool rapid proto)
Culture Jamming - heaps to check on
Wearable Technology
Entertainment
Medical
Safety / sport
smart fabrics
etc... vast potential
Check:
Sridhar Androus
Steve Mann if only for the halarious photo evolution
Mobile Media - as above but carried
Telematics
Immaterial Practice
Best lecture yet
What is design?
Applied creativity
Problem solving...
Learning- cycles towards solution
Evolution- evolving design
Social process- not a solo endeavour
wicked problems
Naive design
FORM?
Deleuze
intensity causes form
Heaps to think about in this lecture. Gets more to the core of the WHATs and WHYs
Future
History as an informer for the future.
Who is inventing the future?
ASIMO
Da Vinci
MIT
I-Robot
SPRAWL
Heaps of cool things to look up. All in lecture note book.
You Tube for Robot Wars
Politics of the Artificial
Yeah yeah.
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