Media Life Final Lecture

media lifewhat it is + what can be done

media life

media

media are pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient

media disappear

media organize your life

watching and being watched

is the new normal

“It used to take effort to be public. Today, it often takes effort to be private.”

danah boyd – 25 January 2010

media have become

survival relevant

media mediate

sociality

media mediate social solitude

media life

life

“art represents the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this

life”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“why should the lamp or the house be an art object

but not our life?”

Michel Foucault

willingly or not,

knowingly or not,

“we are all artists of our lives

like it or not”

Zygmunt Bauman

YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL

media life

looking inside the car

while driving

there is no war against the machines,

as the machines are us

thank you IU…