Thinking out loud. What is a designer now, and what do they do?

I was trying to explain to my communications colleagues the other day about what designers do. To me it is obvious, we both map information to communicate better, but we also design the interfaces for that map and strategise about platform delivery and engagement. Sounds very much like what communications people do too. The key [...]

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around and around… representation in Australian galleries.

I have just come across this useful blog by the CouNTess. I know things have slipped over the last 10 years, but was not aware of just how far. I remember the days of affirmative action for women artists, seems those days are needed again. I am not surprised by the data, just sad.
 
table from [...]

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“Few lives left for Second Life”, or “Few lives left for corporate media”

Few lives left for Second Life.
Hmmm the Sydney Morning Herald really need to lift their game in researching even cursorily “news” articles, and quoting out of context. It is a huge leap of logic to go from “But Australians appear to have lost interest in Second Life and the users still there appear to be [...]

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trope development

The island development is coming along with the terraforming complete-ish.
Here are some happy snaps:

looking forward to developing the android AI’s and other scripted objects.

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white male christian art

I went to see the bill viola at Redfern last night. Sadly I really enjoyed it, despite the christianity, the huge production values and the white male privilege that enables the work and sidesteps critique. I met him last year briefly and went to a public lecture in San Jose, California, USA. I felt jealous about [...]

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trope in SL

Trash Maggs, Auteur Writer and Artaud Artaud (Me)  on SL in the space I’m developing. The project is called trope. and is to be a repositioning of text in virtual environments. The website can be found here: trope.
It will be launched at the Sydney Writers festival in May during our new media writing panel. Details here.
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bringing up stuff

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a dérive task for the weekend..

Now I’ve been banging on about the derive for a bit now, so i think it is time for a little action.
I would like to suggest a derive for all my lovely readers (there are probably 5 of you…)
For your derive, drop your usual motives for movement and action and let yourself be drawn by [...]

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ontology

Ontology, in its long-established philosophical sense, seeks to identify the constituents of reality. In its more recent information systems sense, an ontology is “a logical theory which gives an explicit, partial account of a conceptualization” (Guarino and Giaretta, 1995, p. 32). The ontology stipulates the taxonomy that [...]

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mr Emoto’s water crystal photographs

I have always been absolutely fascinated with mr emoto’s work, but surprisingly unsurprised by it.Emoto’s work provides factual evidence, that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over seventy percent of our body and covers the same amount of our planet. Water is [...]

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strange a tractor

An attractor is a set to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed. Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a [...]

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