As much as I love the forum of ideas and sharing that such conferences as TED and D11 portray, there have been a few pretty compellingly creepy presentations. From microchipping rebellious youths with tattoos, creating cyborgs, nanobots operating human consciousness, to the innovation of hummingbird drones, there is a dizzying spectrum of technological activity apace. Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroscientist carrying out experiments on monkeys with the enthusiasm/morals of a child, …
Art and Information: An Exploration into Communication, Censorship, and Influence
The modern age of mass communication brings us many messages that improve our lives, but we must arm ourselves with the knowledge of its power to influence, lull, suppress, or deceive through techniques that affect a spectrum of human emotion. There is an obscured and often unnoticed tendency towards information manipulation in our complex media environment, undertaken by politicians, government …
The World of Advertising… an opinion.
The World of Advertising has been of keen interest to me for its incredible ubiquity, its informational capacity, and ability to persuade. I designed this site (ArtIsInFormation.org), partially because I am interested in finding an outlet for my opinions concerning the state of advertising (and our world generally), and partially to help inform/communicate with a burgeoning generation of conscious actors—I …