tech.know
autumn 2010
The first meeting of the semester takes place at 16:00 on Wednesday September 29th 2010 in Johns Street. See schedule.
Tania Goryucheva at on digital commons networks and social software. [22/4/09]
a seminar series examining technology change, cultural change and the critical thinking of the everyday
This series (commenced spring 2009) seeks to examine the question of technology change and cultural change in a critical manner. This comprises a series of discussions around the intersections of contemporary thought, critical practice and technology.
The tech.know group have already organised:
- special event with DATA on digital commons networks and social software
- Space is the Place NCAD Gallery 27 August – 1 September 2009 ISEA 2009 Dublin event - an exhibition of documentation of artistic practices which intervene in public space. The focus is on ephemeral, temporary works which take place out of a gallery setting, living on only in their documentation. Invited artists will send documentation of their work as images, texts and video directly to the gallery electronically where the material will be printed out and displayed on walls and screens by the curatorial team with the exhibition being produced in the gallery during it's run. A submission / suggestion system utilising social networking sites Facebook, Del.icio.us and Twitter will also be provided. (Conor McGarrigle and John Buckley)

Contemporary air travel - the iconic construction of the 'disjoint everyday'
of networked spaces and 'non-places' - or 'codespace'.
schedule autumn 2010
- 27/10/10 16:30-18:30
Organised Networks Once More...
Reading: Ned Rossiter Organized Networks, Introduction, Part II, Creative Industries, Chapters 3 and 4 - 10/11/10 16:30-18:30
Technology Research
How is technology research being framed by various technology/media research centres and institutions?
Readings will be the websites and related outputs of five research initiatives across the international technology and media space:
http://www.sarai.net/research
http://www.media.mit.edu/research
http://www.ndrc.ie/
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/
- 24/11/10 16:30-18:30
Media and Technology Literacies, Participation, Education
Readings for this session comprise a 2006 US report on "new media literacies" and and a UK report on "social justice" and user centered design.
http://newmedialiteracies.org/files/working/NMLWhitePaper.pdf
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/opening_education/Designing_for_Social_Justice.pdf - 8/12/10 16:30-18:30
Technology Forecasting and Futurology
This session examines the question of future technology paradigms by looking at examples of future technology prediction and looking at the critique of the various modes in which the "future" is discursively produced and projected.
Jenny Anderson's "The Great Future Struggle: Futures Studies and the Struggle for the World" [http://www.interdisciplines.org/paper.php?paperID=93]
Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" [ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/]
R.C. Atkinson & P.A. Pelfrey "Science and the Entrepreneurial University" [http://www.issues.org/26.4/atkinson.html]
"The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies: How the Landscape Is Changing" [ http://affinitypartner.trendmicro.com/media/34716/trend_micro_2010_future_threat_report_final.pdf]
For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.