The Node13 Symposium was a two-day journey into discourses on The Rules of a modern, digital society through the lenses of different thinkers of our age. To share these insights with you, we will now start to publish the talks of our Symposium guests, starting with Kyle McDonald’s inspiring talk on a “Life away from the keyboard”. We are happy if you get involved in the discussion and maybe even see you at the next edition of the Node Forum.
Read more on the Node13 theme here: node13.vvvv.org/the-rules/
KYLE MCDONALD – LIFE AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
// Life Away From Keyboard //
What might it look like when all of our real world relationships are governed by the rules of our online relationships? When the way you treat your friends, how you determine who to respect and who to disown, is determined by an automated system? What happens when broadcast becomes the norm, and one-to-one contact is extraordinary? These are a few stories about unusual situations at the border of our real and networked lives.
Bio:
Kyle McDonald is a New York-based media artist who works with code, with a background in philosophy and computer science. He creates intricate systems with playful realizations, sharing his source and challenging others to create and contribute.
Kyle is a regular collaborator on arts-engineering initiatives such as openFrameworks, having developed a number of extensions which provide connectivity to powerful image processing and computer vision libraries. For the past few years, Kyle has applied these techniques to problems in 3D sensing, for interaction and visualization, starting with structured light techniques, and later using the Kinect.
Kyle’s work ranges from hyper-formal glitch experiments to tactical and interrogative installations and performance. He has been Guest Researcher in residence at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan; a fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; and is currently teaching at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
