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Fresh and New
An experiment in fast writing. Thinking in progress about technology, design, heritage, music and sound - and where they all intersect. Precursors to fully formed ideas and projects. A notebook in progress.
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Read 10 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 5 years.
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60. Opening new things, contestable curation, curated lists
It’s alive! I’m conscious that the last time I wrote to you was a month ago! But its been busy.
59. Sounds, friction, time
Thanks to Dan Cohen’s tweet going viral after the last episode I need to welcome a lot of new readers! So “hi!” (and thanks Dan!)
58. Hello 2021
Hello 2021.
57. Looking backwards to go forwards, words from talks
I’ve been doing a bunch of talks recently and several folks asked me to write them up rather than let them stay ephemeral moments.
56. On fictional virtual cities
Things are looking a little different today.
55. The work / longform / structure
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54. On online communities, conferences, connections
There’s a hot wind blowing through Melbourne and for the past two nights the tall eucalyptus tree outside the bedroom window has been rattling the seedpods incessantly on the balcony railing.
53. Buckets of data
The recently released new Google Arts & Culture experiment, Gael Hughes’ An Ocean of Books, is a cute but telling example of the challenges of large heterogeneous datasets.
52. Lost memories
The Whitney’s recent exhibition cancellation controversy is yet another reminder that an art museum is not the same as a social history museum. Power and capital accrete to the art museum in a way that they do not to the social history museum.