Lecture: Visual and Acoustic Space

Quick info on the left and right Brain functions:

'Quantitative research focuses on the left brain -
objective, comfortable with logic, numbers, and unchanging static data and detailed, convergent reasoning rather than divergent reasoning.

Qualitative research deals with the right brain -
the hemisphere accountable for processing data as words, emotions, feelings, emotions, colour, and music.

The right brain gets us into trouble; the left brain reasons our way out...'

www.asiamarketresearch.com

Dan Dennett's ted talk: Can we know our own minds?

also see

Kevin Kelly: How Does Technology evolve? Like we did

Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing

Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us

Locative Media

Wikipedia Definition:

Locative Media are media of communication bound to a location. They are digital media applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions. While mobile technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), laptop computers and mobile phones enable locative media, they are not the goal for the development of projects in this field. Rather:

"Locative media is many things: A new site for old discussions about the relationship of consciousness to place and other people. A framework within which to actively engage with, critique, and shape a rapid set of technological developments. A context within which to explore new and old models of communication, community and exchange. A name for the ambiguous shape of a rapidly deploying surveillance and control infrastructure." (Russell, 2004)

See

• Christian Nold "artist, lecturer, designer, cultural activist ... etc."

• Sonic City (made by students at the Viktoria Institute, Sweden)
  

Communication

Communication necessitates interaction.
(to make necessary or unavoidable)

Communication implies information and codes.

Both Communication and Interaction need action and both create feedback. however the two are often confused.

Communication Media

• Is a tool, a channel for communication.

For example: mobile phones, PDAs, laptops...

• Is an extension of our own body and mind, it has a major influence on our lives.
  

For example mobiles are now relied upon to store information, calculate, email, listen to music, connect to bluetooth, the Internet, plan us lives via the calenders and alarm functions and much more. People are finding it harder to live without them.

• It shapes the environment and ourself.

• It has a history of it's own, which is based on strategic feedback.

For example: Telegrams came to place by the need to communicate with the battle feild during WW1.

Interaction

The dictionary definition of interaction -

• The act or process of interacting
• The state of undergoing interaction

Problems with the idea of interaction -

• It is perceived as very human centered, however interaction can be between humans, the environment and/or machines.

For example: When you push the accelerator on a car (machine), you interact with the car telling it to accelerate, and as it does it interacts with the environment it goes through.

• It misses reflexivity,

(an awareness of the contribution to the construction of meanings throughout the interactive process.)


Interaction needs action, the action creates another action/affect/effect.
Interaction needs two or more participants.
Interaction is not the same as communication, however it can sometimes be communication.
Without action and movement there is no perception and no world.

See

• Jan Chipchase Ted Talk : Our cell phones, ourselves