Welcome!
by onecalledconnor on Jan.29, 2010, under Uncategorized
Welcome to the blog for the 2010 seminar on Afterlife and Death in a Digital Age. We will use this blog to post relevant news items. Please use it to support some discussion around the workshop themes, to post resources (e.g. URLs) that you think are relevant, to comment on other postings and to add anything else that you think is relevant. Please ensure posts are appropriate and relevant. Please register before posting.
About this blog…
by onecalledconnor on Jan.29, 2010, under Uncategorized
This blog is supporting our seminar to be held on 17th April 2010 at the National University of Singapore. More details on the seminar are available from: http://mundanetechnologies.com/goings-on/workshop/singapore/.
- How is the dash between life and death, being and oblivion reflected in the age of digital media? How can we approach the subtleties of different cultural practices and beliefs through design?
- What is the technological response to the ephemerality of our digital and physical existence? What are the issues around ordinary technologies transforming into memorials, evoking powerful memories, nostalgia etc?
- What is the function of different projects offering technological response to death and afterlife? Are we simply witnessing technological sentimentality and kitsch?
- What are different design solutions responding to? For example, are they trying to respond to the immense indifference of nature and the universe to human life and death?
- How can we respond to the ever-increasing mass of digital refuse or ‘dead’ data and what are the implications of and insights provided by reflecting on the end of ‘civilisation’?
- What are the legal and ethical implications of ‘freedom of choice’ being supported through technology, digital desecration and the hybridisation of (the remains of) the dead with the living?
We look forward to your participation through this blog and the event itself.
Best regards,
Denisa Kera and Connor Graham
Local Seminar Chairs
