In a world of ubiquitous computing—in which technology draws us ever further from an immersive experience and seeks instead to mesh seamlessly with our very existence in “the real world”—I find it easy to be nostalgic for my desktop computing rituals of the past. Like many of my age and…
I learned of The Bots during a recent curation of a curation of their work. The 121-word article by Max Ufberg for Wired was called, “This Is the Internettiest Music Video That Ever Internetted.” This internetty “music video” for All I Really Want—a catching song with lyrics played out in…
Miranda July’s newest project, the smartphone app Somebody, explores the notion that technology can serve as a catalyst capable of encouraging intimate meetings between people for the purpose of communication. Somebody users are asked to abandon the anonymity often associated with technology and physically interact with the world around. Somebody…