So, I’m writing a book about the ways in which digitalisation changes not only what we do and how we operate, but who we are as human beings.
Following from Media Ecology and taking no small degree of inspiration from the work of Marshall McLuhan, NOW WE ARE DIFFERENT (working title) seeks to explore all of the aspects of lived human experience, from our biochemical makeup through to our cultural endeavours, and submit the following provocation: that digital media environments have facilitated a genuine evolutionary shift in human beings.
This blog is where I’ll be keeping notes, developing ideas, bookmarking interesting and relevant items and looking for encouragement, advice, feedback and support.
It seems fitting that Radiohead should provide the way into this exploration. Their new video, House of Cards is made without cameras. Instead, it uses 3D data modelling based on Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. The data has been released for public creation of new data visualisations. And there’s a YouTube group to discuss and share results.
Here’s the video:
And here’s the Making Of:
More information at Google Code:
http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
