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?

• http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4216776.html?series=15