ecotech

Notes from a session held at the Luminous Green Retreat, 29th of April 2007

Oliver Lowenstein and Pix

helena hetenen (sp?)
- fiber optic lace (light installation)
- old craft + new tech
rediscovering (almost) “lost knowledge”
- physical experiences
how to not lose things?
- lace “community” dying
- loss is a kind of loss of biodiversity
craft as contemporary and exciting
crossover between lace / architecture
Make / Craft magazines. DIY culture, trendy knitting, increasing
- one splinter of early (90s) media/net art scene
Roy Ascott (sp?) - do what is not easy (getting new media artists to do something physical)
Computer (the object)
- work practices
- physical world gives more direct feedback
- some professions “require” computer use
- responsive technology
- computers as symbol of urban. and urban vs rural.
- networked rural (connection rural and urban)
- networked vinyard
slow…
automation hides knowledge where to draw the line?
“abstracting craft” malcolm mculloch (sp?)
“the hand” frank …? evolution of the hand
scientific (method) vs spirituality. when did this diverge?