![]() Gerd Leonhard talked about it on PICNIC ’09, Mike Laurie blogged about in in Mashable and David Chartier did the same in Wired.Īll of the above mentioned predict a future system in which there are no more boundaries. I read a view interesting pieces regarding this subject and immediately one major prediction regarding the future caught my attention: open instead of closed. That takes me to my next point The future of social media. More importantly, we can resist other messages by organizing within this network. We can put our own messages out there as I am doing right now. The possibilities offered by the internet and web culture are immense, in stead of nodding heads we can actually interact with our information source and critically analyse it. Dono’s class as depicted above was in fact not so far from the truth at certain points in history. I also acknowledge the way mass media can be used to influence public opinion. One has only to look at the past to see this. This does not say that I see technology as inherently evil or as a propaganda vehicle, but I do acknowledge it being susceptible to power abuse by politics. For me it symbolises the way politics can abuse communicational technology to ferment the minds of the public, the way propaganda and brain washing of the public mind is envisioned by Heri Dono. All the heads nodded yes while holding their eyes closed. The heads were plugged into a electronic book-like contraption in which there was a cassette player, some circuitry and a speaker repeating the same audible message. It displayed a classroom filled with heads mounted on mechanical arms. I sneakily took a picture of it because it was quite impressive. The first of his many politically charged works was Fermentation of Mind. I went to an exhibition in the Tropenmuseum called Dono’s code, by the contemporary artist Heri Dono (1960). Right now i'm very interested in the 'future' of the Music industry('s), its convergence with other industries and the way artists challenge precarity with creativity in contemporary conditions. Recent theoretical interests : Lessig, Jenkins, Deuze, Gerd Leonhard ![]() Pro Evolution Soccer and Gears of War Champion of the world,
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