Digital Frontier

Growing up in the 1990s, before the much anticipated ‘digital switch over’ on the TV networks (perhaps a comparable moment in digital history to this one), it was a famous tidbit of British culture to note how there were often local power cuts at 7.45pm. These small power outages were caused when “Coronation Street” took an ad break, and Brits rush... See more

This technology that currently (and increasingly) siloes us doesn’t have to. Perhaps there could be more funding for those innovations that have to do with shared, rather than unshared experiences. Or perhaps there could even be computational work done by new companies or institutions to produce technology which helps us reunite and share experienc... See more

What this points to is a critical change in the rhythms of everyday life which occur almost as collateral damage of the development in computation and their deployment in art and media. The French philosopher Henri Lefebvre created the term ‘rhythmanalysis’ to discuss these processes. For him, to understand a society you had to analyse its rhythms ... See more