tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37555531531774833242024-03-13T18:01:05.502-07:00Digital Deathstaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-20877369378987193012019-02-25T07:15:00.003-08:002019-02-25T07:16:36.352-08:00Diversifying Death - Shaping Perceptions for the 21st Century - 27th February 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b class="">Diversifying Death<span class="" style="color: #1f497d;">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Shaping Perceptions for the 21st Century <o:p class=""></o:p></b></div>
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The death of someone close changes us - making us reflect on the meaning of our own lives. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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This meaning is entwined with culture, religion, belief and legacy but is also framed by legal and ethical structures that help guide us as a community to consider what to do when someone dies. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Death and dying can be difficult to discuss, which may impede end-of-life equality and social progress; leaving many people disempowered. Conversations about death often also occur at crisis points when people lack the emotional capacity to reflect on the choices they are making. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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But what does it mean to die in the 21st Century? How can design, technology and religious practices popularised in the 20th Century, help us to speculate on how new technologies and experiences will shift the boundaries of mortality? In the future, will death rituals be further embodied or disembodied? How do new forms of spirituality impact our relationship between our bodies and ritual practices, where new generations use digitaliity as a way of talking to the dead? And what will become of the things we have owned and treasured? Will they continue to tell our stories for generations to come?<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Following the success of our panel on <u class=""><a class="" href="https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/creativeconversations/2017/03/02/designing-death-panel-discussion/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Designing Death: Challenges and Aesthetics for the 21st Century</a></u> in 2017, we are delighted to delve deeper into the role of diversity and belief in death and dying. This conversation<i class=""> </i>pushes us to consider the creativity of belief alongside the complexity of ethics online that constructs new forms of public engagement, expanding the meaning and social consciousness of death and dying. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-3944269729945360652018-05-09T14:20:00.001-07:002018-05-09T14:20:40.644-07:00Love After Death - an interactive installation for Redbridge Library’s The Final Party [18th - 19th May]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Love After Death invites you to explore your own legacy with experts in the field of death and bereavement. They will help you chart the myriad of choices in the future showing how death can be approached as creative affirmation - of love and loss.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Andréia Martins is a journalist, anthropologist and a PhD student at the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society. Her netnographic research focuses on Virtual Wakes/ Funeral Webcasting in Brazil and the ways in which the Internet can help us deal with death and dying. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Susana Gomez Larranaga is an artist working with print, time-based media and installation. Her work recreates human manufactured imprints that merge and decay in nature. Derelict sites, turn into sites of intervention as archaeological repositories. When installing artwork, parallel dystopian realities are projected over the physical realm. In contrast to the ruin, the virtual world challenges the boundaries of human interaction and life-spans. Susana's practice-based PhD investigates the agency of online personal data over a physical space.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dr Audrey Samson is an artist-researcher, resident at the Somerset House Studios and a Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts at the University of Greenwich. She has an active research profile, a thriving art practice and industry experience in digital media and network culture. She has developed numerous interactive installations, workshops and academic publications in the field of digital art in the context of death online, including Digital Data Funerals and has extensive experience thinking through the implications of digital technologies and translating this to engaging experiences for audiences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dr John Troyer is the Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.His interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary memorialisation practices, post-mortem bioethics, and the dead body’s relationship with technology. Dr Troyer is also a theatre director and installation artist with extensive experience in site-specific performance across the United States and Europe. He is a co-founder of the Death Reference Desk and the Future Cemetery Project, and he is a frequent commentator for the BBC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dr Elaine Kasket is a psychologist who writes and speaks to practitioners, academics and the public about death and the digital. She is passionate about telling stories that show how the digital age affects how we live and how we die and has an upcoming book called All the Ghosts in the Machine: The New Immortality of the Digital Age that will be published in early 2019 (Robinson/Little Brown). It aims to get us all thinking differently about death and the digital.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dr Stacey Pitsillides is a Lecturer in Design at the University of Greenwich. Her research actively inquires into how co-design can engage publics to speculatively explore their own mortality and legacy. Stacey's research is grounded in breaking down hierarchies between designers, institutions and users. Through a mix of ethnography, cultural probes and participatory design methods, she has collaborated with hospices, festivals, libraries and galleries to curate a range of interactive events aimed at specific communities e.g. tech innovators, educators and bereaved family members. She is also a public advocate for designing human-centred technologies with death in mind and has written broadly on the topic of death and digitality.</span></span></div>
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The 4<span class="s2">th </span>Symposium of the International <b>Death Online Research Network </b>will take place at The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. It will consolidate links between existing and new network members and provide opportunities for the discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online. The meeting will explore the ways in which online connectivity is changing how, when and where we engage with death and dying and how we invest death-related practices with meaning in the online environment. We warmly welcome new members to the network as well as old friends.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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For this 4<span class="s2">th </span>Death Online Research Symposium we invite abstracts for oral presentations of new, recently completed, or ongoing research or ideas for future academic research on all kinds of death related online practices. We welcome qualitative and quantitative work which expands our understanding of the current and future trends in death online research from a variety of disciplines, addressing any of the following themes:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-8589214686440302172017-02-15T15:35:00.001-08:002017-02-15T15:35:19.268-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Material Legacies - in the Landscape of the Lost</h2>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-legacies-private-view-tickets-31874334994" target="_blank">Register for Private View</a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Tuesday 28th February </span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Wednesday 15th March </span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Designing Death: Aesthetics and Challenges for the 21st Century – Panel Discussion - </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-death-challenges-and-aesthetics-for-the-21st-century-tickets-31992399127" target="_blank">Register Here</a></h4>
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Stephen Lawrence Gallery,<br />
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This exhibition invites the public to experience how artistic making can provide momentary glimpses of relationships unfolding stories of love and loss.<br />
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Material Legacies is the culmination of a four-year research collaboration with The Hospice of St Francis, a palliative care charity. This collaboration explores how artistic making supports the bereaved to negotiate their own approach to translating and finding a place for the dead in their lives. Within this process, biography is distilled into three distinct experiences, which collect a range of materials capturing the essence of the deceased's archive. This deep interaction advocates how a material approach to loss can expand our personal and aesthetic relationships with the dead.<br />
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These experiences provide momentary glimpses of relationships - through material and technological composition - that unfold unique stories of love and loss. Visitors are invited to connect with these experiences on a visceral level. The materials used become a language that is refined through the iterative process of making, as stories of the dead are told through the bereaved's physical engagement with materials and their collaborations with creative practitioners. Together the works speak of loss and self-discovery: hundreds of pin pricks turn memory to matter; clay fuses with video constructing the ‘Trainman’; and fingertips massage a message of textured paint leaving their imprint on hand and canvas.<br />
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The exhibition as a whole expresses a new materiality of death that blends narrative, craft and archives. This promotes an approach to thinking through making that supports the co-creation of loved one's physical and digital legacies. We are looking forward to present the processes and surprising conclusions to the public.<br />
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This exhibition would be of special interest to those working within the boundaries of art and public engagement, co-design and art therapy through artistic practice.<br />
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Credits: Material Legacies was created for the Stephen Laurence Gallery by Stacey Pitsillides as an outcome of her PhD in Design. This research is in association with the University of Greenwich (Creative Professions and Digital Art) and has been supported by The Hospice of St Francis and Goldsmiths, University of London. The works exhibited have been produced by Freda Earl, Sam Durant and Anne Marshall in collaboration with Elwin Harewood and Stacey Pitsillides - technical and design development from Aiden Finden and Giulia Brancati. With thanks to Greenwich Bright for the filmed interviews.</div>
staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-60218334415494674722016-09-05T14:26:00.000-07:002016-09-05T14:26:40.559-07:00Love After Death - FutureFest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">At FutureFest you will be invited to explore your own
legacy with experts in the field of death and bereavement. They will help you
chart the myriad of choices in the future of Love After Death showing how death
can be approached as a creative affirmation – of love and loss. By considering
your own mortality and what you would like to happen to your body and legacy,
our experts will help guide you in setting up your own Legacy Document, detailing
the future of your body and extending your presence beyond death. </span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica;">Mortality has always been of fascination to human
beings; a curiosity, an artistic endeavor but always a mystery. For generations
to come design and technology will play a vivid role in these spiritual matters
that speak of our very humanness. However as technology forces us to face what
bodies, minds and souls mean to us, will we prefer to live on in reanimation,
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-72834003064332644972015-08-06T03:38:00.004-07:002015-08-06T03:41:51.141-07:00DORS2015: Full Programme & Poster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 2nd International Death Online Research Symposium is fast approaching and we are all feeling the buzz of excitement and looking forward to meeting all the people we have been in contact with over the past months!</div>
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Register for this conference via <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-international-death-online-research-symposium-2015-tickets-16971171230" target="_blank">Eventbrite</a></div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, UK51.41233 -0.3006890000000339651.372719499999995 -0.38137000000003396 51.4519405 -0.22000800000003395tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-31377313856917669582015-07-25T09:51:00.003-07:002015-07-25T09:56:16.123-07:002nd International Death Online Research Symposium<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://kingstonuniversitylondon.eventbrite.co.uk/">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University London</a><br /> Monday, 17 August 2015 at 09:00 - Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 18:00 (BST) Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom<br /><br /><b><u>Symposium Information</u></b><br /><br />Digital technologies of communication constitute increasingly omnipresent technologies of life as well as death that structure contemporary forms of sociability, flows of affect and meaning-making. <br /><br />Following the successful first Death Online Research Symposium at the University of Durham, the second two-day symposium will be held at Kingston University London in August 17th-18th 2015. It will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network and provide opportunities for the discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online.<br /><br />The meeting will explore how we invest death-related practices with meaning in digital convergent media, social media artifacts and networks with a focus on familiar, reconfigured and emergent types of content, contexts, new (mass media) audiences, usage patterns, and embodied forms of experience and expression. <br /><br /><div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-86299924055855690552015-03-24T15:18:00.000-07:002015-03-24T15:27:15.311-07:00Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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July 24th-25th 2015 University of Greenwich, London</h2>
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This conference seeks to explore the points of intersection at which the material and the digital, matter and the virtual, and embodiment and posthumanism push against each other in visual media. Through encounters with cinema, artist’s film and video, installations, and online archives, the aim of the conference is to conceive of new relationships between temporality, materiality and affectivity, tracing the ways in which matter becomes meaningful, or comes to resist meaning, in the digital age. We hope to illuminate the new ways in which digital experiences allow us to think and sense matter and materiality, while reassessing the role of non-digital media in this equation. The conference will trace the implications of the posthuman turn in the humanities, understood as encompassing a variety of non-anthropocentric approaches, on our understanding of matter and affect in visual culture.<br />
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• the relationship between image and environment, the materiality of filmed nature, and the ‘ecological turn’ in theory and philosophy<br />
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Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London <a href="http://www.joannazylinska.net/">http://www.joannazylinska.net/</a><br />
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Professor David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow<a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/davidmartin-jones/">http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/davidmartin-jones/</a><br />
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Dr Felicity Colman, Manchester School of Art <a href="http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/fcolman">http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/fcolman</a><br />
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Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by 18th April 2015 to calls[AT]timadi.org with ‘Material Environments’ in the subject line.<br />
<i><br />This Conference is sponsored by the ‘Time, Materiality and the Digital’ (TiMaDi) research group at the University of Greenwich, and organised by Matilda Mroz, Isil Onol, Stacey Pitsillides, and Rosamund Davies.</i></div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-27671128130223946522015-01-22T02:28:00.001-08:002015-01-22T02:32:36.059-08:00 2nd International Death Online Research Symposium<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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two-day symposium to be held at Kingston University London in August 17<sup>th</sup>-18<sup>th</sup>
2015 will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network
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addition, we welcome expressions of interest for the screening of short films
or the performance of creative pieces related to the themes of the symposium. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage publication of selected full
papers in a special issue of an academic journal in the field as well as a
collection of writing from the symposium in an open-access online platform. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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20<sup>th</sup>, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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submissions and enquiries should be submitted to: <u style="text-underline: #2364B1;"><span style="color: #2364b1;">deathonline2@gmail.com</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Death Online Symposium Submission” in the subject field. Please include full
contact info (author name, university affiliation and email address) in the
submission. Submissions will be anonymised by the organisers before review.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0Kingston upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London KT1 2EE, UK51.4036032 -0.3035750000000234651.4023652 -0.30609650000002347 51.4048412 -0.30105350000002346tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-36738394250316953432013-07-18T01:36:00.000-07:002013-07-18T01:36:46.229-07:00Call for Chapters [Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Call for Submissions<br />
<em>Digital Death</em> collection</div>
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We invite proposals for a collection of essays on the subject of <em>Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age</em>.
This proposed book, co-edited by Christopher M. Moreman and A. David
Lewis, will consist of 12-15 chapters representing a diversity of
perspectives and approaches to the subject. We are seeking submissions
for new writing from scholars across a spectrum of fields, including
religious studies, theology, media studies, digital humanities, and any
other area that explores the topic of death and dying in a digital
environment, with reference to religion and/or the study of religion.</div>
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<em>Digital Death</em> includes analyses of mortality, remembrances,
grieving, posthumous existence, and afterlife experience via a variety
of digital media (e.g. Facebook & social media, <em>World of Warcraft</em>
& video games, YouTube & video services, internet memorials,
etc.). We invite proposals for papers of excellent academic merit on any
topic and from any academic perspective or discipline.</div>
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Proposals should include a 200-300 word abstract, a one-page C.V., and potential titles for the chapter, submitted to <a href="mailto:cmoreman@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmoreman@gmail.com</a> by Oct. 1, 2013; complete 5000-7000-word drafts in Chicago format of accepted abstracts will be due by December 1<sup>st</sup>, 2013.</div>
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staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-50139035291675526422012-10-13T05:33:00.000-07:002012-10-13T14:16:29.071-07:00An Insight into Digital Death Day London!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Digital Death Day 2012 was an exciting collision of people from different backgrounds, with vastly different experiences and perspectives on the concept of death and digitality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We started the day by setting the agenda (translation: writing in that moment what we felt like discussing with the various experts/ interesting people that were in attendance). As a PhD student/academic I am currently putting together a chapter on the relationship between the physical body and technology, including what happens to this relationship when a person dies, so my session was called: <i>Embodiment, Authenticity and Technology </i>(this title was also inspired by Sherry Turkle's recent book: Alone Together). Whereas Andriana (my fellow co-organizer) being an entrepreneur and designer wanted to conduct her session as a kind of mini-focus group discussing various aspects of <i>Announcing Death and Mourning Online</i> as she is in the process of developing a platform which would aid people in this process (further notes/ audio of sessions will appear shortly on www.digitaldeathday.com). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a side note: Digital Death and privacy seem to go hand in hand as a main concern of this community. I don't think we have ever had a Digital Death Day where this was not a central theme and it certainly gets discussed as a part of other sessions as well. There are mounting concerns regarding what will happen to our data after we die including the lagging legal framework, the conflicting terms and conditions of major players in the industry and the lack of education for young people in relation to understanding what it means to post something (public) online. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After some coffee and breakfasty stuff its time to construct the agenda by placing the sessions we want to run on the wall and designating a time and place where that conversation will take place. This is also when the four guidelines of unconferencing make their appearance (the below were very well phrased by <a href="http://usualsuspectsconference.com/?page_id=85" target="_blank">The Usual Suspects</a> so I borrowed and adjusted their
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Whoever shows up is the right people</i></b>…
reminds participants that they don’t need “world-famous death expert guru X” and 100 people to learn something, or to have an interesting
time. What we do need are people who care (world-famous or not :) )</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Whenever it starts is the right time</i></b> …reminds participants that “spirit and creativity do not run on the clock.”.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Whatever happens is the only thing that could have</i></b>
…reminds participants that once something has happened, it’s done.
Spontaneity and ‘going with the flow’ are important, and this is one of
the guidelines which creates a space in which unexpected things can
happen.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>When it’s over, it’s over</i></b> …reminds
participants that we never know how long it will take to dive into a
topic, once raised, but that whenever the discussion or work or
conversation is finished, move on to the next thing. </span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Photography by: Vered (Rose) Shavit: <a href="http://digital-era-death-eng.blogspot.co.il/" target="_blank">http://digital-era-death-eng.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.co.il</a></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So with these guidelines in mind and a relaxed attitude we begin our conversation about<i> Annoucing Death and Mourning Online: How to strike a Personal/ useful
balance</i>, in the comfy chair space ;-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Digital Death Day is a series of Unconferences which have been running twice annually since May 2010 in Europe and North America. We are very excited to be bringing this event once again to London! In the past this event has received high profile international press (such as <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8691238.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8691238.stm</a> and </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="vevent"><span class="description"><a href="http://obit-mag.com/articles/life-after-death-in-digital-form" target="_blank">http://obit-mag.com/articles/life-after-death-in-digital-form</a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Digital Death is the term used to describe the growing issue of what happens to your personas, ideas, feelings and accounts online after you die. This workshop is open to professionals and amateurs alike. Anyone who wants to learn, discuss, ask questions or even display a working product. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finally it is here, the long awaited for book on the emergent field of Digital Heritage. Edited by the ever so talented Elisa Giaccardi.</span></div>
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</div>staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-18455360772341236532010-04-13T16:05:00.000-07:002010-04-13T16:20:50.846-07:00Science Fiction: Looking to the Future!I would like to take the opportunity to contrast two examples from popculture; science fiction films. I believe these examples will enrich my notion of digital death and allow me to use my collection of real life events to consider how one may begin to design for the future. The two films I have chosen to cross evaluate were both released in 2004 and run along parallel themes, both broadly considering peoples relationship to memory.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T73WUz4TI/AAAAAAAAAH8/6pVLv9wGtG8/s1600/51K9HMVTMVL._SL500.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T73WUz4TI/AAAAAAAAAH8/6pVLv9wGtG8/s400/51K9HMVTMVL._SL500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765576584126770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T8EJnXyPI/AAAAAAAAAIE/dFFPYfZilLQ/s1600/eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind_ver4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T8EJnXyPI/AAAAAAAAAIE/dFFPYfZilLQ/s400/eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind_ver4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459765796510615794" border="0" /></a><br /><br />{1} The Final Cut is a film which considers what the world would be like if we had the option to implant a ‘Zoe chip’ in our baby’s head. This chip would then record every second of life through the person’s own eyes. Upon the person’s death this chip would then be removed, edited by a ‘cutter,’ in accordance to the wishes of the family and used within a ‘rememory’. The characters within this film, consider this a way of preserving important memories. In one of the scenes the cutter asks the bereaved family “do you recall any moments with your daughter?...I need you, your family to choose those moments you want to keep.” However some of the characters are<br />seen, throughout the film, to rebel against these sentiments. “I couldn’t take it, I just couldn’t stay, because it wasn’t, it wasn’t him and I wanted to remember him my way.” This statement reiterates the human need for memories not to be tainted. By looking at this audio-visual life document do we run the risk of ‘losing’ our own memory of past events and recalling only the document? In another scene one the cutters innocently reveals a fatal flaw in the system of ‘rememory,’ she states “we have to make story decisions, otherwise there will be no rememory.” This led me to consider all forms of archive and on-line memory and question who can make these ‘story’ decisions, who is qualified to make that choice? And how does the sewing together of memories (or information) change or give false images of who this person actually was? There are also many cases where people within the film use the system of ‘Rememory’ to literally edit their lives. One character claims, “my husband was a great man...he deserves to be remembered as a great man... I’ve seen rememories where the cutters were careless; they had no respect for<br />the dead.” This brings home the idea that having a ‘rememory’ is not for the person who is dead, it is instead a chance to give the living, the ability to construct the narrative of their loved ones life, the life they would have liked to have and to erase all the bad memories with powerful images and cinematography, that will remain lodged in their brain and eventually inhabit the place of old ‘real’ memories, creating a person who in death has become exactly who they wanted them to be. Both publicly and personally. “These implants destroy personal history, therefore all history” If every person’s personal history is to be selected, curated and edited. When we look back a hundred years from now, what will we see?<br /><br />{2} Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film centred around a fictional company, ‘Lucuna cooperation’s’ which has “perfected a safe, effective technique for the focused erasure of troubling memories." In their press release they state “Why remember a destructive love affair?...[when] in a matter of hours our patented, non-surgical procedure will rid you of painful<br />memories and allow you a new and lasting piece of mind.” The film centres around a couple who have broken up and end up using ‘this’ service. Clem, one of the main characters “decided to erase [her X] almost as a lark.” Throughout the film, as you live out ‘Joel’s’ soon to be erased memories, you are constantly being led to question whether it is better to forget an episode of your life because it is painful or to consider that perhaps, the most painful memories of our lives are also probably the most valued and valuable? Characters who believe in ‘Lucuna’ defend it, saying, “to let people begin again, it’s beautiful.” However as the film progresses it becomes clear that all characters become caught up in either questioning the ethics of this company or abusing their position of power. The main character in particular realizes that losing the memory of his X-love is akin to losing her all over again, forever and during her erasure is forced to relive the beauty of their relationship together, through this exquisite agony, he exclaims “please let me keep this memory, just this one!” By the time Alexander Pope is quoted, near the end of the film, by an employee of Lucuna, who is intoxicated and flirting with a married man: “How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d,” This quote begins to sound almost<br />tongue in cheek and the title “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” transforms into an ironic ‘wish.’ Which as with most wishes leads not to ‘eternal peace’ but to receiving ‘exactly what you asked for’ which is in this case; ignorance, emptiness and absence.staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-13050383889069264002010-04-13T15:47:00.000-07:002010-04-13T16:03:32.784-07:00Group Dynamics: Converge and Diverge.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T1P0Y0YyI/AAAAAAAAAH0/1PfkhvP4SNc/s1600/Digilife-time.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8T1P0Y0YyI/AAAAAAAAAH0/1PfkhvP4SNc/s400/Digilife-time.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459758300389466914" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Diagram depicting how the digital space has enabled "ridiculously easy group-forming," (Shirkey, 2008). This allows for the potential convergence of an infinite amount of members in a group. However the fact that every person experiences and engages with an event in an original way means that groups also diverge and split when people realize their 'differences'. So at the other end of the scale because no one can experience an event in the same way as you, you could also comprise your own individual group (of one).staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-44780358603684401792010-04-13T15:37:00.000-07:002010-04-13T15:42:34.960-07:00Death Spans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8Tybybk6CI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FqaVUouJOGA/s1600/deathspan%28big%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8Tybybk6CI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FqaVUouJOGA/s400/deathspan%28big%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459755207487711266" border="0" /></a>
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<br />staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-86570320430235302612010-04-13T11:34:00.000-07:002010-04-28T11:08:20.396-07:00Networks In Crisis: Relative Strangers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8TFpllXyiI/AAAAAAAAAHM/T8aDKOWM2gc/s1600/crisisisinevitable.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8TFpllXyiI/AAAAAAAAAHM/T8aDKOWM2gc/s400/crisisisinevitable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459705966534052386" border="0" /></a><br />Relative Strangers considers the affect 'death' has on family networks in the diaspora. To do this it takes a step back and begins to deconstruct the relationships of family members questioning whether it is possible to form close relationships when mediated over huge geographical distances. By tapping into the rich fields of cognitive science, philosophy, bereavement and virtual management; a proposal is built up which considers the development of a new form of 'audio ritual' (shared broadcast.) Allowing each family member the option be 'linked' through a tapestry of shared soundscapes. By locating this ritual around a fairly mundane event, i.e. eating dinner. The project aims to highlight the opportunity of evoking a new audio-ritual, giving families in the diaspora the opportunity of getting to know dispersed family members on the micro-scale (as you do when living together) without pressuring people to communicate directly.<br /><br />Project Presentation can be found at: <a href="http://http://www.vimeo.com/11159627">http://www.vimeo.com/11159627</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8TG86DmAPI/AAAAAAAAAHc/_aGADLEjwrQ/s1600/LondonDinner.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/S8TG86DmAPI/AAAAAAAAAHc/_aGADLEjwrQ/s400/LondonDinner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459707397958664434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Networks in Crisis : Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge.</span><br /><br />Brief: to consider, both critically as design students who are informed by many of the most recent debates within the discourse of design and contemporary social, cultural, and critical theory, and practically as designers who are aware of the radically transformative potential of design, some of those key social, cultural, political, economic and environmental concerns that have arisen latly in relationship to the question of ever increasing involvement in those various "networks" - whether material or immaterial - that are increasingly "in-forming" the very nature of the world in which we currently exist. Microsoft is a major contributor to the field of "network" technologies, i.e. technologies that allow us to create systems or "networks" of communication and connection between different people, places and things.<br /><br />"how might we possibly design, or perhaps even more appropriatly, re-design or redirect the essential nature of these technologies and the networks that they create in a way that is capable of not only revealing but also possibly remedying many of those essentially dehumanising, disincarnating, and destructive qualities of their nature that seem to be such an intrinsic part of their existence - and the "crises" that they produce"<br /><br />(5 week project)staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-3575015521084032802009-11-23T06:01:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:04:06.250-08:00A diagram looking at time in relation to digital information.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqW0HtdKaI/AAAAAAAAAHA/zl_ZmO3mq6s/s1600/Digilife-time2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqW0HtdKaI/AAAAAAAAAHA/zl_ZmO3mq6s/s400/Digilife-time2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407300124778768802" border="0" /></a>staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-90584056555880034982009-11-23T04:40:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:03:35.315-08:00MyLifeBits meets Harry Potter - Our digital memories will remain forever!Recently I have been looking at the multitude of implications when storing ones memory in a digital format. I have chosen to include the image of Dumbledore storing his own memories in an external pool (pensive) because I think there is an interesting parallel to be made. It always amazes me how something like the idea of a pensive, so grounded in fiction and magic can now, not only be a possibility but a reality! One <span style="font-weight: bold;">can</span> now store their memories in an external pool (computer) and even invite other people to share in some of their experiences. These 'bits' of memories, stored in their 'pools,' are shielded from the danger of natural decay in the physical world (and the human condition of forgetting.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqDGIUaOmI/AAAAAAAAAGo/tPTauLGBQNc/s1600/dumbledore_pensieve.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqDGIUaOmI/AAAAAAAAAGo/tPTauLGBQNc/s400/dumbledore_pensieve.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407278443947244130" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqD8_9n1vI/AAAAAAAAAGw/8gT8eJUd15o/s1600/MyLifeBits.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwqD8_9n1vI/AAAAAAAAAGw/8gT8eJUd15o/s400/MyLifeBits.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407279386596988658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Microsoft's 'MyLifeBits' is probably the most complete example of a life recorded online.<br /><br />"<b> </b><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/">Gordon Bell</a> has captured a lifetime's worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings... [in his digital pool]. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio. "<br /><br />(http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mylifebits/)<br /><br />However my question, as always, is what is to be done with all this information once we have spent our lives accumulating it. How do we begin to edit down a lifetime's worth of information, making it relevant to both our loved ones and society? I begin to question, is this frantic gathering and saving of information a reflection on our culture's in-ability to deal with loss and mortality? Is 'digital memory,' simply a modern search for the fabled philosopher's stone (immortality) and if our information does get passed down as 'digital remains' then have we in some way achieved this goal? Nowadays we tend to keep information simply for the sake of keeping it (because we can) or because we are afraid of losing something we might need? I question whether this really is a good enough reason for it's existence?staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-85568187109362883832009-11-16T07:26:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:05:51.038-08:00The EXbox - a place of rest for that special someone!<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwF2MO9N9nI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/wR8fDkPBXj0/s1600/x+girlfriend+CD2.jpg">The image below shows a snapshot of a persons life. This person is a friend of mine. This friend, like most people, has been through a break-up. The couple in question no longer see or talk to each other.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwF2MO9N9nI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/wR8fDkPBXj0/s1600/x+girlfriend+CD2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwF2MO9N9nI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/wR8fDkPBXj0/s400/x+girlfriend+CD2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404730980366677618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwF2MO9N9nI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/wR8fDkPBXj0/s1600/x+girlfriend+CD2.jpg">Fig1: Placing the disk into a safe, out of sight, out of mind</a><br /><br />They are both trying to move on but the digital world persists. Hidden among the countless documents, movies, music and other digital data are memory triggers. On this particular day it was too much, so this friend called and presented me with her problem:<br /><br />"Whenever I look on my computer I can't help but stumble upon pictures of my ex, I don't want to get rid of them but I just can't look at them anymore."<br /><br />Which immediately led me to see a simple solution. I told her to delete all the images of her ex from her computer and put them instead on a disk and put the disk somewhere safe and out of sight.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwGhNwQaBwI/AAAAAAAAAGg/RPhtsk92PrU/s1600/EXbox.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwGhNwQaBwI/AAAAAAAAAGg/RPhtsk92PrU/s400/EXbox.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404778285485393666" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Through this simple example I have begun to see the impact of having a chaotic but perfect digital memory. It has made me see the data within my computer as complex 'bits' of information which inevitably link me to the memories, events and documents of my life.<br /><br />This is a simple example, as it is something that most people can relate to (losing a relationship). However the example becomes much more complex when one considers how to deal with the information of someone who has died. When losing a loved one you may not want to 'put them away in a box.' I have begun to think about potential, physical and digital, resting places which would allow you the space to grieve but also the opportunity to (in time) celebrate a loved ones information (memories).staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-7468671061098825042009-11-16T02:55:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:06:59.005-08:00Perfection is not Human - Allow me to Forget!Lately I have been thinking a lot about digital sharing, what does it mean to 'share' a piece of yourself with a collective and for there to be a perfect record of each of these 'sharings'. How has this record changed the way people interact, argue, get even and even proclaim love.<br /><br />By leaving behind our 'flawed' and very 'human' memory, I have begun to wonder if in the quest for immortality (of information) we are eroding our power to forget. Forgetting is something which has, throughout time, protected us both from an overload of information and our own past.<br /><br />Before digital memory, if you had an argument with a friend; they would have their side, you would have your side. Eventually the fight would be forgotten. There was no proof as to who was right and who was wrong.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwFK1VFR51I/AAAAAAAAAGA/Lu8vpw1GdnQ/s1600/forget-me-harddrive.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwFK1VFR51I/AAAAAAAAAGA/Lu8vpw1GdnQ/s400/forget-me-harddrive.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404683307874117458" border="0" /></a><br /><br />However if you have an argument with a friend on Skype, your words have a real chance of 'coming back' to haunt you. Your friend can now come back to you three weeks, three months or even three years later with your exact words. They can even have shown these words to various third parties and have received comments and opinions.<br /><br />The appearance of this document, this non-temporal bit of evidence, means that we can no longer be spontaneous or flippant with our wording. Each word uttered in the digital realm has consequences, not just for today but forever.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">"Forgetting plays a central role in human decision-making. It lets us act in time, cognizant of but not shackled by, past events. Through perfect memory we may lose a fundamental human capacity - to live and act firmly in the present" </span><br /><br />Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Vicktor Mayer-Schonberger (2009)</span><br /><br />As we inevitably live more of lives digitally and have access (digitally) to a perfect memory of both our own and other people histories. As time (and our lives) move on, there will undoubtedly be an accumulation of digital paraphernalia that we may wish to forget.<br /><br />Perhaps as a designer I should begin to think about how I could program temporarily, or even decay, into digital information.<br /><br />Below is an initial thought model which would allow information, which was not being regularly, used to be stored in a repository (hard disk). Information within this repository would begin to decay if not used for long periods of time. This would force the user to engage with the information they wanted to keep and not store things simply for fear of losing them. It would also mean that all information on the desktop was information that was regularly used or looked at.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwFio7j-OEI/AAAAAAAAAGI/REKcRsNMSRU/s1600/Digital+long-short+tem+memory.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwFio7j-OEI/AAAAAAAAAGI/REKcRsNMSRU/s400/Digital+long-short+tem+memory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404709483144165442" border="0" /></a>staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-31754082430579335202009-11-15T05:16:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:07:53.929-08:00I have been asked kill your computer.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">When a person dies, what happens to their personal computer?</span><br /><br />A conversation with a Funeral Director led me to think about this in more detail, the funeral director told me the story of a man who knew he was going to die and had begun to make arrangements for his funeral. One of the things he was most adamant about was the destruction of his computer (hard disk.) He said there was information on there that could potentially hurt his family and friend and therefore he wanted it gone.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAjNnZ05hI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/efmHVPz_eFk/s1600-h/parana+hard+drivered.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 311px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAjNnZ05hI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/efmHVPz_eFk/s400/parana+hard+drivered.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404358269667173906" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This led me to question of there parts of a hard disk that one would ant to 'die' with them and if in opposition the example they were unaware of their death who would take on the burden of this 'killing'?<br /><br />If a person were to ask us to end the life of their information at the same time as they themselves ended, how would we go about it..? What would be the most appropriate ritual for the destruction of information? Is there something spiritual and personal about using a sword? Would using a syringe be considered more legal, as it is considered to be sterile and medicinal? What roles do you begin to take up when you use these objects and how would it leave you feeling, to be responsible for 'killing' someone's information?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAAgyp2oOI/AAAAAAAAAFA/iVq2XBG5Jik/s1600-h/assisted+sucide1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAAgyp2oOI/AAAAAAAAAFA/iVq2XBG5Jik/s400/assisted+sucide1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404320116197728482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAAyR8lMHI/AAAAAAAAAFI/WZYu9trq9os/s1600-h/assisted+computer-suicide2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 342px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/SwAAyR8lMHI/AAAAAAAAAFI/WZYu9trq9os/s400/assisted+computer-suicide2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404320416655552626" border="0" /></a><br />I also wanted to think about the life span and mortality of a person's personal computer, I wanted to engage with the fact that within the digital world we find it so hard to get rid of (or lose) information. We are all digital hoarders, to an extent, and we can be as there appears to be an endless amount of space to store stuff. In the physical world it is both expensive and uncomfortable to never throw out a possession, so one has to select items carefully and only keep what is really important. However in the digital world, we are always finding new ways of 'saving' and 'retrieving' information. We do not spend enough time considering why we actually need this amount of information. As human beings having a 'perfect memory' is unnatural, therefore perhaps we could consider the loss of digital information to be a natural 'culling'.<br /><br />How could a designer begin to create structures which would force people to lose digital information that was no longer important to them?staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-46376772182688383372009-11-15T05:02:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:09:01.342-08:00Digital Assets - Perperation for my Digital Self.A very small number of companies are starting to emerge offering services which consider the safety of a person’s ‘digital assets.’ Mostly, these companies have been designed with the tag-line ‘safety deposit.’ They focus on the storage of one’s digital self and transfer of one’s digital estate to next of kin once you have passed on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv_-U6EPDbI/AAAAAAAAAE4/NctTcm-GG58/s1600-h/companies.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv_-U6EPDbI/AAAAAAAAAE4/NctTcm-GG58/s400/companies.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404317713005743538" border="0" /></a><br /><br />‘Legacy Locker’ is one such fledgling company who states “most of the websites we all use on a regular basis have little-to-no provisions in place for a loved one to transfer account information in a time of need. In some cases you might even need to get a lawyer involved just to access an email inbox. Your digital legacy needs protection, and we've built Legacy Locker to help solve these problems.”<br /><br />Vitallock is another such company, still in its alpha phase; it is expected to be launched in spring 2009. They promise their service to be the “Swiss Bank Escrow of Digital Assets”. It is stated within a video on the website that “this is just a logical extension of the economic times, the relevant issues that have come out of…us moving towards a knowledge economy.”<br /><br />DeathSwitch.com claims to be “bridging mortality”. This company works through a ‘death switch’ system. “A death switch is an automated system that prompts you for your password on a regular schedule to make sure you are alive.” If you do not respond after a number of repeated attempts then a predetermined set of actions is undertaken on your behalf, e.g. to inform a member of the family of your death, and about your the transfer of your digital assets.<br /><br />Afterlife.org, contrasting with highly commercial companies such as ‘Vitallock’ and ‘Legacy Locker’, is concerned with digital heritage. It is a “not-for-profit organization whose mission is to archive Web sites after their authors die and can no longer support them.” The site is run on purely voluntary basis and is “currently being developed so there is very little information at this site. As volunteers help to build AfterLife.org, the Web site will progress in content and design.”<br /><br />The emergence of these companies highlights the beginnings of awareness, towards the issue of digital death and indeed towards the need to ‘take care’ of ones digital assets.staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-91280248999403635302009-11-14T12:03:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:09:41.591-08:00The Iceburg of My Digital Self<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv8PjPNDDKI/AAAAAAAAAEw/lo-cYH5Uh8Q/s1600-h/Digital+self.iceburg.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv8PjPNDDKI/AAAAAAAAAEw/lo-cYH5Uh8Q/s400/Digital+self.iceburg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404055175918980258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv8NUXbhTII/AAAAAAAAAEg/wauuyL_-A7E/s1600-h/last+will+and+tesiment+of+my+digital+self.jpg"><br /></a>staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755553153177483324.post-29916485118794893152009-11-14T11:30:00.000-08:002009-11-23T12:10:33.785-08:00Second Life Impersonators<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv8GoNM_eeI/AAAAAAAAAEY/4o-cVcfelbE/s1600-h/diana+impersonator.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TKJ0vSPiQOg/Sv8GoNM_eeI/AAAAAAAAAEY/4o-cVcfelbE/s400/diana+impersonator.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404045365676571106" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Are there impersonators in Second Life? I have yet to come across any impersonators in Second Life, which i strange as in Second Life you are free to look as you choose...<br /><br />How would people react to seeing an avatar which resembled a public figure in Second Life...? Why is it ok to impersonate someone like Elvis but somehow wrong to do the same for Princess Diana, could this avatar be considered a tribute or is it just disrespectful?staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06812423155166375278noreply@blogger.com0