Last week, I was in the Bay Area for a series of events about the future of the book. On Oct 23, I spoke at "Creating Minds" at UC Berkeley, along with James Bridle, François Bon, Bernard Stiegler, Warren Sack or Kathryn Hayles. Here are the slides of my speech, which basically dealt with the new f...
Beta knowledge
Btw, since I've less time to blog here, most of the things I run across (insights, data points and “weak signals” in a very basic/raw way…) goes to my tumblr called "beta knowledge" ...
OKCon next week in Geneva
The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2013 is happening next week in Geneva, Switzerland. An event about Open data and open knowledge conference, running since 2005, it will feature a series of talks, workshops and discussions about the various dimensions of these themes. I took that as an occasion...
"Grand Theft Auto V" level design
Fantastic article about "Grand Theft Auto V" level design. It's a very interesting account of their process with "location scouts, architectural historians, off-duty police, DJ Pooh and our own research team." The description about how they dealt with light as well as the diversity of geographical ...
Digital Creativity on design fictions
Constellations: design fiction about objects from the past For people interested in design fictions, the latest issue of Digital Creativity is a special issue about design fiction. It features papers by people like James Auger or Andrew Morrison, Ragnhild Tronstad and Einar Sneve Mart...
Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Uncreative Writing"
Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Uncreative Writing" was certainly the best book I've read so far in 2013. It's basically about techniques, which are traditionally thought to be unrelated with literature (word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriation, intentional plagiarism, identity ciphering, the In...
'Curious Rituals' in Milan for the Design Week 2013
Screen Shot 2013-04-23 at 6.39.40 PM Quick update: "Curious Rituals: gestural interactions in the digital everyday", the book and our short film, was shown few weeks ago in the Logotel's (In)visible Design - 100 Stories from the Future and Beyond, an exhibition for Milano Design Week ...
Art/tech scene
An interesting quote seen in this NYT article I saw today: "“I’ve been a bit disappointed by the disconnect between New York City’s art world and technology space,” he wrote in an e-mail later. “It’s extremely rare to see start-up people at gallery openings, for instance.” There are all sorts of pl...
10 years!
I just realized this the tenth year of Pasta and Vinegar! What started as a PhD student notepad is still around. There's less blogging than it used to be but I still intend to keep this blog running. Weak signals and links are generally posted on beta knowledge, but P&V will still feature longer po...
Thoughts about brain-machine interaction
Brain-computer interactions is a pet topic I investigate on the side for quite some time; actually since I was an undegrad in Cognitive Sciences back fifteen years ago. In the last ten years, we saw an interesting evolution in terms of hardware possibilities with the advent of headcaps... this led...