I’ve been told that the organizers that about 100,000 people tuned in to the live stream (though not simultaneously), which kinda turned upside down my whole perception of the event and my experience with audience.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Other artists in the presentation: Machiko Kusahara, Ryota Kuwakubo, Toshio Iwai, Theo Jansen, Sachiko Kodama, Maywa Denki.

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After 5 months, my residency at the CFC Media Lab has come to a close. It’s been an extremely rewarding experience. It was beyond a doubt the best thing for me to do at this time in my life. It was quite a leap from full-time employment to full-time ideation.

There are still some lingering tasks like completing our video documentation and fixing a few software bugs, but I’m mainly off and focusing on other things right now.

The softlaunch went well. Way more people showed up than I thought would, given the terrible 30cm snowfall we had that evening. The aforementioned bugs meant that we had to hold hands demonstrating the prototype, but people got the idea and were generally excited about how MYTIME could impact their lives in a positive way.

We’ve got a site (barebones right now) outlining the scope of MYTIME at mytimeworld.com where we’ll soon be posting the video. I’m excited – I think it’ll be a solid piece.

It’s a pretty complex site whose core functionality supports wiki-style page entries, while simultaneously bringing together blogs, forums (unused so far), photo galleries (and gallery integration using tags, views and thickbox – pretty snazzy), an events calendar and minutes which attach themselves to meetings. There’s also some solid audio integration, and I originally had a custom content type for sticky notes, styled all nice too, but we found it more effective to just take pictures of our sticky note exercises and post those instead.

Things are going well in our group. There is no shortage of ideas, inspiration, or enthusiasm. The five members of team GUSTA (Geneviève-Ulysses-Simone-Tristen-Andrew) have had to face the challenge of narrowing in on a project they can all care about. Consequently, we began a journey of thematic exploration with a view to find commonality (and difference) and spiral in towards a precise manifestation of our core values – all by consensus! What a challenge.

We moved in from The Human Experience to The Need to Consume and have come up with a project tentatively titled Pimp My Bot – a modular physical computing project where each component has encapsulated, functionality. The forms promote modular thinking of the sort seen in electronics kits, but with LEGO-like ease of assembly. We are looking at a highly configurable, product-based design, where user contributed content plays a key role. If this all seems a bit vague at the moment, it’s because we’re working on clarifying and streamlining what it does and how it does it.

download the presentation here:
How to be your own webmaster (6.3 MB)

the deadness of deafness, the soft burley beats
a shifting to alcoves of flows and deceit
inside monumentals that buttress routine

A capital method – to seek is to glean:
a cage is a window and its pane is a place

Ahead metal weather leaves its deep trace
a manner of being, of rushing for a pace

A haphazard exit, a flame-like transition
that births me to comfort, to forgo my mission

written during an audio walk tour through the CFC main house and around the grounds