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

Before reading the articles I could never believe that computer-aided approach have had these spectrum of historical and creative arguments. Although we are living in an age which carries many desires of the past, an illustration from Kreuger will be always new for me, “Meaning is the product of interaction between the observer and the system, the content of which is in a state of flux, of endless change and transformation.” His powerful insight, in my opinion, mostly rooted in his emphasize on experience which lead him also to limited experience that presents a novel sense.

The only aspect which I think was absent in the authors’ predictions and suggestions was the ability of our time which have the capabilities to produce social computational projects. As another illustration, today, we have various forms of projects that are using collective intelligence or are reflecting crowd’s participation into the project.

Now I am curious to know if the thinkers of 60s could understand and describe human-computer symbiosis or the comprehensive concept of computer-aided versus computerized, what are our thinkers today thinking about? Or what should I present to the future? I hope we do not try to promote the real ten-minute war. Before reading more I must  explore lots of interactive art projects to find out different aspects of this kind of art same as the systematic exploration of Krueger‘s experimentations.