[-empyre-] Kevin Hamilton: Resolution for Digital Futures

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On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:29 AM, Timothy Murray wrote:

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> There must be an application for the iPhone designed to help one keep
> New Year's resolutions, and as 2008 ends I'm struck by the smoothness
> and high-definition of our technologies of self-maintenance. With
> ease and formal beauty, one's every action, hope and desire can be
> logged and transferred, producing new opportunities for surveillance,
> commerce, and apparently, political education and action. In my world
> - far from the traumas of war or slavery - 2008 was a year when the
> gaps between life's cinematic frames closed ever more tightly - we
> live at more frames per second, more moments and movements captured
> with each status update or rss entry.
>
> I'm as seduced as anyone by the beauty of continuous flow, marveling
> at the Marey-like beauty of today's expert Twitterers. But in 2009 I
> hope to find more opportunities for conscious use or refusal in
> regards to such habits of technological being. Yesterday's "Blow up
> your TV" is today's "iPhone in a blender." There must be more ways of
> swimming than the strokes I see, ways that attend to the full economy
> of motion and energy spent, by whom and for whom.
>
>
> Bio: Kevin Hamilton (US) is an artist and researcher at the
> University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he chairs the New
> Media Program. 2008 saw Kevin tenured and on leave from the
> University, at work on projects about cybernetics, microcephaly,
> creativity, and atomic test films (not all at the same time.) He also
> has a short piece in the just-released book Re-Enchantment, edited by
> David Morgan and James Elkins.
>
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> Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
> Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
> Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
> Cornell University
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