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A humane dynamic medium embraces the countless

ways in which human beings use their minds and bodies,

instead of cramming people into a tiny box of pixels.

One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up

his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”

The practice of software begins to resemble closely the practice of memoria and, specifically, the memory theatres of Camillo, which constitute memory as a public space; a kind of virtual architecture for an incomplete image of the world. Software begins to look like the closest medium to memory itself we have produced .

The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty... See more

More than anyone else today, Michael Ford has worked tirelessly to find and identify examples of hip-hop influenced architecture and made many arguments to define architecture’s role in hip-hop’s inception. While I call Moses the “true father,” this is a notion first forwarded by Ford, who has routinely coined Le Corbusier and Robert Moses the... See more

And so, while language is necessary, it does a disservice to reality. In attempting to describe the indescribable, words constrain reality. Through simplifications, generalizations, and connotations they mischaracterize and water it down. They fail to capture the complexity, uniqueness, and dynamism of life. And as a result, we never truly see,... See more

we call this idea bigamy

that you can take multiple desirable

elements that might not fit together or

even seem mutually exclusive like the

garden home in the high-rise and merge

them together into a new genre

you don't have to remain faithful to a

single idea you can literally marry

multiple ideas into promiscuous hybrids

the beauty is that architecture... See more

A humane dynamic medium gently leads people down a path

from playing, to crafting, to remixing, to programming.

The idea “the body as a mixer” is a framework to think of one’s self as that catalyst of events . By freely taking references from both sides of X, to affect change.

In DJ’ing we are taking two ideas together to make one moment. This goes out to the audience. A reaction is registered or not registered. We live in that loop. Or try to make the next... See more

Eno sought to create music that could be interrupted at any time (for flight announcements and such) without in any way harming the music. Also, since the music would probably be talked over, none of the instruments or frequencies matched the sound of the average human voice so there would be no need to compete for sonic space. He also noticed that... See more