[NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

[helen varley jamieson]

yes, i do see that - people have easily accepted the sales-pitch of
convenience & supposed improvement, & don't want to look under the hood
at what is really going on. however in germany there is quite a lot of
discussion & media reportage around issues of privacy & security;
perhaps there is more questioning here than in other western countries.

losing stuff / letting go has become almost forbidden. the amount of
digital crap that is sitting on hard drives & eating up energy in server
farms is scary to think about. whole industries of backing up & life
caching & an unhealthy obsession with documenting everything without
stopping to think whether or not it's actually worth documenting,
endlessly documenting instead of actually experiencing the moment,
instead of actually living.

if freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, what's the word
for nothing allowed to be lost???

h : )


On 04.09.2017 14:54, Tamar Schori - Doflash wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe that we have lost the ability to get lost, and to loose
> stuff, and to be unseen, and to be unchecked and unattended,
> unavailable, unattainable... With it we are loosing diversity and the
> right not to be understood or to be forgotten. Is it still possible to
> be unique? I'm sure we gain other things that transcend the boundaries
> of privacy. 
>
> I myself, have recently completed my MA thesis in design defining a
> new UX method that deals with the way mixed reality puncture the mere
> notion of a constant reality. Anyone who remembers mondo 2000 and the
> way the cyborg was perceived as a threat, would notice the current
> numbness and indifferent reaction toward amazing changes and
> technological advancements. Do you see that too?
>
>
>
> Tamar Schori
> 0544-560136
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:59 PM, ruth catlow
> <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org <mailto:ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>>
> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for posting this Tamar.
>
>     This makes me reflect on the pathology of the hype surrounding the
>     Internet of Things that suggests that life can be improved by
>     knowing where every "thing" is at every moment, and then making it
>     "do" something for us.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     On 03/09/17 11:27, Tamar Schori - Doflash wrote:
>>     I love the "lost" filter
>>     many years ago, in the ancient times before social software I
>>     created this project:
>>     See http://tamar-schori.net/oodlala/
>>     <http://tamar-schori.net/oodlala/> from 2002, a social network
>>     for memory objects.
>>
>>     some of the stories are really touching...
>>     take a look
>>
>>     Tamar Schori
>>
>>
>>
>>     Tamar Schori
>>     0544-560136
>>
>>     On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Alan Sondheim
>>     <sondheim at panix.com <mailto:sondheim at panix.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         (From Sue Thomas on Facebook; she headed trAce at
>>         Nottingham-Trent;
>>         I was the 2nd virtual writer-in-residence. Think this might be of
>>         interest here because of the networking involved, which was
>>         also a
>>         metaphor for lost packets, lost archives, disappearances,
>>         ruptures,
>>         etc. in online worlds.)
>>
>>
>>         Sue Thomas
>>         August 26 at 12:26pm
>>
>>         My favourite trAce project ever - Lost, by Alan Sondheim . It
>>         no longer
>>         judders on the page as it was designed to do but the entries
>>         are as
>>         haunting as ever. Users were invited to fill in the form and
>>         write about
>>         things they have lost. Many entries very sad, some very funny!
>>         L*O*S*T
>>
>>         http://web.archive.org//20/http://trace.ntu.ac.uk:80/lost/
>>         <http://web.archive.org//20/http://trace.ntu.ac.uk:80/lost/>
>>         (From Sue Thomas, and trAce) -
>>         L*O*S*T
>>         web.archive.org <http://web.archive.org>
>>
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