SpaceCollective: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World

SpaceCollective: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:24 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World en New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:24 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg">chris arkenberg</a> wrote: Thanks to all for your comments and kind remarks. It's really intriguing to consider how AR may redraw the boundaries between subject & object, space & place. Is it, in some way, threatening to collapse our sense of space? Will knowledge of the Other become so advanced and immediate as to render the distinction between I and Thou meaningless? If AR becomes the visible palette for the Logos, how will consciousness and it's culture shift to absorb such a hallucinatory experience? Considering the current technosphere as a programmable LSD simulator is an interesting exercise... this is, I think, what Wildcat suggests. ;) http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:50:59 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/GabrielShalom">Gabriel Shalom</a> wrote: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGLoK_Qzgr8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGLoK_Qzgr8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> A relevant and amusing <a href="http://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_interviews/Dp1L3uRENOgfS7o0syac" target="_blank">interview</a> with Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist about her new (first) feature film. Includes such reality-bending observations as: <blockquote>I made some things exaggerated, and some more simple, to make it like a fairy tale. So it's more symbolic. But the message is not only in the story; it's also in the texture, the camerawork, the material, the colors, and in the way of looking. The contradiction you felt is addressing our fears and our censorship in life. Thinking, for example, that we should not love certain people because of what we think they think of us. And while I know we need certain kinds of fears to live together in society, I would like to provoke discussion about which fears are necessary and which we should overcome. Often we have rules in our lives that seem to be givens, but this is not true; everything is constructed. So I tried with this film to question things. But I am also caught in myself. I'm not freer than anybody else.</blockquote> http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:23:17 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Infinitas">Infinitas</a> wrote: If AR affects the wealthy more than the majority of people what are the consequences? This can be said of genetic engineering and nanotechnology as well. Essentially we will be putting ourselves on a very distinct and extremely different path of evolution- we actually have already been doing this. Evolution is happening at an unprecedented rate because of technology, and it appears that this will happen even faster and faster with the coming years. Soon enough there will be two fundamentally different human species living on Earth. But as we become more aware of global consciousness, due to technology, will we be more inclined to help the "underprivileged", offering them what we already have? http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:18:37 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/notthisbody">notthisbody</a> wrote: <blockquote>Or perhaps more realistically, what happens when a small class of wealthy westerners begin to redraw the world around them? </blockquote> or perhaps more realistically, what happens when a small community of practice begins to redraw the world around them? this is where the <a href="http://spacecollective.org/notthisbody/5370/Interacting-Arts" target="_blank">Interacting Arts</a> becomes highly applicable to AR conceptualization & actualization. http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:51:00 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat">Wildcat</a> wrote: Very Good post, thx Chris, and I definitely concur with Nothisbody, the issues you raise are indeed the questions we should focus on. loved this accurate observation of a possible outcome: "Ugly tenements ruining your morning commute? Turn on some happy music and set your iGlasses to the favela paintshop filter! " the question that comes to mind at this junction therefore is the following: isnt it the case that we are already in a fashion applying said "paintshop filter" to all the different classes of favelas we do not like using our built- in imagination? the difference if so maybe one of degree and not of kind. if that is indeed the case it might be that we are reaching a point in time in which difference in degree translates into difference in quality and thus becomes not a technological question but an ethical one (and I for one think that this is the case). now then, to what extent will you (the designer) apply , if at all, a restriction on the virtuality capabilities of the AR device you are developing? is it the responsibility of the product designer? I am fascinated by the implications and consequences of using advanced "mind/reality altering technologies" or maybe more aptly called reality altering mind substances manifested as technology. thanks again for publishing this http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:50:05 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/GabrielShalom">Gabriel Shalom</a> wrote: This is a great article and its fascinating to get the inside scoop about the AR DevCamp. Its really good to hear all these intelligent concerns being voiced. One thing which stuck with me, (and apparently with notthisbody too)... <blockquote>"what happens when you and the people around you are each having very different experiences of "reality"?"</blockquote> We already are all having very different experiences of reality ;) Human consciousness has actually got no other alternative as of yet. I believe that the long-term implication of AR is that we will begin to standardize and merge consciousness. The heterogeneity that we'll encounter due to rehashing of 20th century property concerns will be only one part of the complex ethical question of what will happen when we do have open standards for AR metadata. The concern I have is that this merging will be unevenly distributed in the physical world (as are most technological innovations) and that while the wealthy are experiencing some sort of transcendent post-human merging of consciousness, the rest of the world will be excluded. While Kevin Kelly has alluded to AR as a kind of "socialism 2.0", an uneven distribution of the effects/benefits of AR will continue the class struggle in an entirely new way. I think we should have open standards so that the user experience is maximized and made safe and navigable. It would be great if we can achieve this in a way that is not elitist. Some speculations: It could be that the rise of a new computing paradigm after Moore's Law will make the cost of AR devices so cheap as to allow them to be distributed very widely for very little money. If the wealthy merge consciousness separately from the non-wealthy perhaps this newly merged consciousness will have a universal human empathy that will seek to end poverty. Just an optimistic thought ;) PS: I'll be including a link to this post in an upcoming guest post I'll be making soon on <a href="http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/" target="_blank">_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_</a> http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World New comment on: Breaking Open the Cloud: Heads in an Augmented World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:56:46 +0000 chris arkenberg 5389 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/notthisbody">notthisbody</a> wrote: Chris, thanks for a great overview of the current state of AR. And you touch the base of it... <blockquote>what happens when you and the people around you are each having very different experiences of "reality"? What happens to the commons when there are 500 different augmented versions? What happens to community and society when the common reference point for everything - the very environment in which we exist - is malleable and fluid and gated by permissions and access layers or overwrought with annotations competing for our attention? What social gaps could arise? What psychological ailments? Or perhaps more realistically, what happens when a small class of wealthy westerners begin to redraw the world around them?</blockquote> seems to me we definitely need a way of connecting these different experiences. Tim Berners Lee is behind the Linked Data Movement, which is linking ontologies into a meta-ontology. We also need to connect our subjective ontologies and ideologies to start identifying form constants in human interactions, patterns of actions, and revealing misconceptions & contradictions. there will be many other realities lived in than this one, we can gather, mobilize as communities as the consensus reality breaks down, and enable action around common visions. Aye, there's the rub :) thanks for the great post. http://spacecollective.org/chrisarkenberg/5389/Breaking-Open-the-Cloud-Heads-in-an-Augmented-World