Infomorphs and Physical Locations The Role of Location for a Post-User Internet David Bausola CEO, Philter Phactory | weavrs.com
Infomorphs and Physical LocationsThe Role of Location for a Post-User Internet
David BausolaCEO, Philter Phactory | weavrs.com
Globally distributed team featuring
designers - engineers - philosophers - artists
“Web Search with a Non-Human Agency”
“Tech Art Interventionists” - Bruce Sterling
Web platform for producing Digital Alter Egos.
RT“The Empathy Button”
Why spend money converting humans to users when you can just make the users?
49%
51%
non-humans
humans
An example of a Weavr’s Network of Interests.
The Weavrs Editor
@Darth_Weavr
Prosthetic Store
“Apps for Weavrs”
Open Source Prosthetics
github.com/philterphactory/
Maschmischine.com42 Weavrs as Alice in Wonderland characters.
Story location overlaid on Berlin. Would they meet up as described in the novel?
Every day the same schedule
Every day similar results
Alice’s Blog
Alice’s Checkins
“Probable atemporality”
Jabberwocky Tweedle Dee and Dum Pigeon
The Weavrs Strolling Prosthetic
“I’m constantly aware that @jon_ronson is out there, Tweeting.” - Jon Ronson, Film maker.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
“I like to watch.” - Chance
The movie explores the philosophical concept of “Dasein”
Awareness of self existence NOT “self aware”.
Infomorphs “Info-Being”
Charles Platt, Silicon Man, 1991Alexander Chislenko, Networking in the Mind Age, 1996
Status Updates with Location are Animation Frames
Weavrs are Data Filters,producing Location Tagged Activity Streams.
{ verb + noun + location }
Animation in the space of culture at the pace of culture.
“Network Realism”Converts Where into There
.
You need location to be in a Dunbar Club
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What is remarkable about Whereness is that it gives the imagination Thereness.
you
me
Totems
Thank you.David Bausola
David @ PhilterPhactory.com
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