27 Novembre 2014, Akihabara, Tokyo. Une petite boutique dévoile son travail en cours. Un objet local attire mon attention.D'un intérieur plutôt désordonné – rempli de cartons, de feuilles de papier éparses, de feutrine et de rouleau – apparait un oiseau bleu malicieux qui me fait un c...
8-bit reggae book playlist
For those who asked, here's the list of the tracks I've included in the 8-bit reggae book. Definitely not exhaustive but a good list of tunes that inspired me. Of course there's not just chip music as the book started with the evolution of reggae. Jahtari X Uprooted Sunshine: "Level Up" Jody Bigfo...
Cats, toxoplasmosis and internet memes
"> A great talk by Kevin Slavin at Eyeo 2013 Ignite, that I transcribed as a background research effort for a book project on internet memes:“[Image of a bird flock flying around altogether] This is kind of the freebirds of birds. This is like an image anybody can use in a presentation. I used...
"The complex relationship of sub-systems and their larger wholes."
Currently at the Media design seminar here at the Geneva School of Art and Design, we discussed this interesting way to explain the notion of modularity. Called, "the parable of the two watchmakers", It's from Herbert Simon and it nicely explains the relationship of simple and complex sys...
8-bit reggae: an interview with @goto80
Photo by Ferdinand Dervieux. The writing of the 8-bit reggae book relied on a variety of sources: books, LPs, cassette tapes, soundcloud tracks, FB groups, meeting with artists and producers, etc. Among them I had a fruitful exchange with Anders 'Goto80' Carlsson (see also...
"Thomassons" = architecture relics
This is one of the books I brought by back from Tokyo last week. I don't read Japanese but I noticed that it might be intriguing. Flipping through this tiny booklet, I noticed the use of curious pictures. The architectural structures in Black and White, presented alongside a main essa...
Ursula Le Guin on Science-Fiction
"> Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. A quote I find stunning:"we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see throu...
'Curious Rituals' at Future Fiction (Z33)
photo (c) Kristof Vrancken / Z33 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Future Fiction is an exhibit currently held at Z33 (Hasselt, Belgium). Focused on "world-building", it explores "how contemporary artists, designers and architects relate to future thinking and imaging". The projects prese...
The Institute of Culturetronics : "modular domestic electronics"
I finally found some time last week-end to read the material produced by/for the Institute of Culturetronics. Proposed by Henrik Nieratschker, it's defined as "a framework for an ongoing number of projects and design activities that look at the intersections of local culture and ...
Objects from Japan
Spent last week in Tokyo for a workshop. A good opportunity to wander around and run across objects that I found typically from there. A short list, it's definitely a selection, can't be exhaustive. My favorite, it's pervasive and fascinating. A plastic weight with an handle used to stab...