Synthesis

Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:

Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona

Fibreculture Journal 2017

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002 

The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,

opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.

Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:

Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona

Fibreculture Journal 2017

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002 

The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,

opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.

Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:

Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona

Fibreculture Journal 2017

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002 

The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,

opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.

Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:

Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona

Fibreculture Journal 2017

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002 

The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,

opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.

Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:

Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona

Fibreculture Journal 2017

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002 

The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,

opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.

Here are the slides for a talk given 15 May 2017

"Temporality, Gesture and Sémiomaths"

at University Paris 7, Diderot,

- Xin Wei

Here are the core documents guiding Synthesis, and the earlier experiment, the Topological Media Lab.

My main project is transplanting a fresh version of research-creation to the United States.

The experiment is to see how ASU can be a site for amplifying this fusion  "alchemy” to new domains of everyday sociotechnical/cultural practice, extending it beyond art and engineering research, and to find international links…

The most detailed snapshot of the organizational workings is in https://www.academia.edu/1537746/The_Atelier-Lab_as_a_Transversal_Machine

and in chapter 7 of my “Poiesis” book.

Xin Wei

A beautiful work of augmented and alternate reality

Synthesis is an experiment on transplanting a model for a novel, and amodern mode of knowledge creation from its rich nursery in Montreal Quebec to the United States.

Attached is letter I composed for people who have wanted to do a research-creation PhD with me over the years since I transplanted the TML to Montreal in 2004-5.

It may be of more general interest now.

These are really lovely documents, Xin Wei. Thanks for sharing!

periodically I send out some letters to prospective researchers — maverick makers thinkers writers who may want to study with the TML, Synthesis, AME … 

here are the first two — about how  art research ≠ art practice