ARC 597 | On Speed Situated Technologies Intellectual Domain Seminar, Fall 2014

I think the original idea was the annihilation of space By the time. Invention of a perspective of real time which annihilates spatial distances is one of the most revolutionary transformations. Many of the transportation and communication technologies such as railways or media advances by capitalization have had the effect of shrinking the space. Technology allows you to contact anyone anytime within seconds. Some guy in India fixing your computer while you are at Buffalo in real-time; this is the annihilation of space. I think it makes situation complicated because the railway makes two cities which distant about a hundred miles will be so closed that its inhabitants are neighbors but a settlement twenty miles distant across the unclear country is unknown, unvisited or probably unheard of by the women and children,”

As distance has been overcome, time becomes compressed. The best-known instance of this is “jet lag” when we travel too rapidly across time zones.

Technology of speed promises to deliver us to a better place; Speed of movement not only signals our capacity for overcoming the geographical distance, it also has come to suggest that the possibility for increased efficiency and productivity.

The crucial question is that what should we do to make something virtual become actual? Is it science? Art?

Thinking about the tools that make other people read our mind is an obsession for us and the way we influence people. We do not expect people to mix in our imaginations instead we as artists want to create mental structure capability for everyone to understand ultimate reality. There should be a resemblance between the patterns in physical reality and the patterns which are perceived by everyone. I mean that even the purest philosophical theory is nevertheless incapable of grasping the true existence and reality of it in full measure.