May 25, 2013

Gnosis

I wonder if, once the technology becomes pervasive enough to be affordable to the new emerging middle class of corporate technicians*, the next wave of "innovation" and art will be re-imagining real space with user-created overlays. I wonder, also, how it will function to separate out those who can afford to script their environments with self-generated, customized and licensed overlay from those who must live in a merely meat space.

* - and the support system monetized enough to allow for "creative play."
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11 comments:

  1. davidlyMay 26, 2013 at 5:32 AM

    Best case scenario, I reckon, is enabling the former through personalized settings the most effective means at ignoring the latter, and this comfy partition might provide meatspace dwellers the ability to be exploited through less direct contact, indeed, perhaps without knowing they're being exploited at all.

    The more things change...

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  2. Jack CrowMay 26, 2013 at 12:02 PM

    I was thinking about his in relation to China Mieville's "The City and the City," Davidly. I think you're on to something, here. The new tool allows people to un-see.

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  3. davidlyMay 27, 2013 at 7:03 AM

    Oh. I see.

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  4. The Red QueenMay 27, 2013 at 7:14 PM

    HAAAAA, so this ridiculous little podcast that the boyfriend and I are doing that has fuck all to do with seriousness is talking about augmented reality this week. One of the questions I wrote for interviewees is something like "you are a broke ass recent college grad with massive student loans and nothing but crappy, stained hand me down furniture in a super shitty apartment. Do you use augmented reality to trick your brain into seeing your apartment as better than it is, or do you suffer with reality in the hopes that someday you can afford better?"

    Isn't this shit like, the ultimate placebo. I think they will want to get it to the masses as fast as possible. I think that it's one more way to placate the have nots into thinking they have something, when it's all just pixels.

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  5. Jack CrowMay 27, 2013 at 11:00 PM

    RQ,

    I wasn't looking at it as an all-access to even greater Spectacle enchantment, because these things always tend to be tiered, but you're right. It can be tiered and ranked according to status, and still be made widely available (like cable, or restaurants, or anything else really) in exactly the manner you describe.

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  6. fishMay 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM

    Gibson wrote the generally enjoyable Spook Country which has locative art as one of the threads of the book.

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  7. tsisageyaMay 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM

    Please. Why do you wonder about these things at this late date. Have you no knowledge of Jerry Mander and the Four Arguments?

    Don't answer. Strictly rhetorical.

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  8. tsisageyaMay 29, 2013 at 5:27 PM

    He also wrote, "In the Absence of the Sacred" blahblahblah Native American blahblahblah.

    But I'm sure no one will be interested.

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  9. tsisageyaMay 29, 2013 at 5:31 PM

    In the meantime we're all standing on stolen ground. Awesome.

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  10. Jack CrowMay 29, 2013 at 10:37 PM

    Don't know what arguments against television have to do with user created overlays, as apps, for digitally enhanced "living."

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  11. tsisageyaMay 31, 2013 at 3:24 PM

    Really? You don't know what un-debated technology has to do with un-debated technology?

    You don't know much, do you?

    (Oh wait, is that irony or something?)

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