Utopie c’est nul part Dana Diminescu /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/Utopie c’est nul part by Dana Diminescu Fragments of a drifting monograph At first, Victoria was a nameless military project. The place, a Carpathian highland (a mountain summit, the Gîrdoman) covered in forests down to the foot of the mountain and criss-crossed by abundant wild rivers that descended towards a prairie covered with tall grass and dog rose...
Lithium punk from Bohemia: artistic vaporware against Silicon Valley future Denisa Kera, Petr Sourek /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/Lithium punk from Bohemia: artistic vaporware against Silicon Valley future by Denisa Kera, Petr Sourek In 2017, an American economist by the name of Milton ‘Crypto’ Freeman aka Blockfree Money 2.0 spent a weekend in the mountains of Lithopia and wrote a fascinating series of tweets about the habits and customs of its inhabitants. He was stunned by the mountain...
REALITY-HYBRIDS and Utopian Spaces Tobias Bieseke Picture 2 Window at the chemical factory. Picture 3The orange zone are contaminated toxic areas. Nobody is allowed to go there Picture 4This is a picture from the contaminated toxic area. Picture 5Here is a photo (Steffen Mitschelen) from the picture in the second floor of the Victoria hotel. In the center you can see a black (with reflection) painted area Picture 6Here is the original picture...
Cybernetics and Fiction Georg Trogemann Figure 1: Proyecto Synco, Chile 1971–73. Figure 2: Closed system as an example of an abstractive (neglective) fiction after Hans Vaihinger. Figure 3: Warren S. McCulloch, Walter Pitts; (1943)A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity Figure 4: Gordon Pask, photograph of an electrochemical process, from “Physical analogues to the growth of a concept.” (1958)...
¡ VIVAN LAS UTOPIAS ! Jean-Jacques Birgé /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/¡ VIVAN LAS UTOPIAS ! by Jean-Jacques Birgé Article originally published in of the Revue du Cube #2 (March 2012) I am fortunate to belong to a generation bottle-fed with utopias. We thought we were making the revolution, we only reformed manners. With one voice we shouted our revolt against the exploitation of man by man, understanding that change would never...
SITUATED DRAMA Friedrich Kirschner /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/SITUATED DRAMA by Friedrich Kirschner Welcome to Etherbox! This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. Add __NOPUBLISH__ to prevent this pad from being archived.Friedrich Kirschner „Situated drama aka enacting complexities” FK – professor of new media and technologies, University of...
From Other Places to Utopian Cities Somayyeh Shahhoseiny A Member of the Community in His Living Space – by Somayyeh Shahhoseiny /PRESENTATIONS/ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIAS/From Other Places to Utopian Cities by Somayyeh Shahhoseiny Utopia is a complex notion. It is an ideal place where the human’s desires will be realized and where there is no inertia or repetition. This article explores Michel Foucault’s approach to describe utopia in which...
What are Shrinking Cities? Ilinca Păun - Constantinescu /PRESENTATIONS/ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIAS/What are Shrinking Cities? by Ilinca Păun - Constantinescu Excerpts from “Shrinking Cities in Romania. Orașe românești în declin”, Berlin: DOM publishers & MNAC Press, 2019. Shrinkage is the result of a complex interplay of factors. As such, it describes a phenomenon thatproduces both quantitative and qualitative changes at the city or neighbourhood...
Cybernetic Approaches – An Eastern European Perspective Ioana Macrea-Toma, Tincuta Heinzel /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/Cybernetic Approaches – An Eastern European Perspective by Ioana Macrea-Toma, Tincuta Heinzel...
Human Computers RYBN.org /PRESENTATIONS/REIMAGINING UTOPIAS/Human Computers by RYBN.org Human Computers is a mediarchaeology study of the shared origins of computers and labor division. We have observed the history of the relationships between humans and machines, through the labor perspective. We traced the history of this relationship from the contemporary digital labor regime, back to the very first computing...
Critical Imagery of Contemporary Science Fiction Karin Lingnau Figure 1Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927, the image is taken from a rare film programme produced for the London premiere at the Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21, 1927. More images on http://socks-studio.com/2012/08/15/about-metropolis/, last accessed on 10.10.2019 Figure 2Screenshot Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, 2013, TriStar Pictures. A view of the approach to the space station, showing the entire wheel...
Reshaping the Cities, Reloading Tradition Irina Tulbure /PRESENTATIONS/ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIAS/Reshaping the Cities, Reloading Tradition by Irina Tulbure Socialist realist architecture was often received with a lack of appreciation. This perspective was mainly due to the fact that the initiation of the first socialist realist projects in the 1930s was meant to give an alternative to the Russian constructivist architecture. Therefore socialist...
