hi.

“I love things complexly because they are complex.” Jerry Lettvin {more quotes}
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 rivers north of the future 

blog

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(also: twttr & pinboard)
PRETTY MEGA

work

cv // CRISSP // at nyu: teaching dead media fall 2010, intro to digital media spring 2011

talking

about the Diaspora project with the NYT :
on the unbook at computers & writing 2010 (transcript) :
about 4chan, Anonymous & Dusty the cat with the PRG :
informally about spam and metagaming at CSA in Berkeley :
about the social history of technology for Steinhardt :
about spam’s history on CBC’s Spark :
and about lightweight identity theft, ditto

will be at

CSA Berkeley 3/18-20 | C&W Purdue 5/20-23 | GENI Princeton 6/29-30 | HOPE NYC 7/16-18 |
ISEA Ruhr DE 8/23-29 | EASST Trento IT 9/2-4 | WISSP10 Abu Dhabi UAE 10/1-4
NYC the rest of the time (do say hello)

contact

finnbr [ gmail ]

making things:

+ a labyrinth, or a barricade, built from 10 years of read/writing Walter Benjamin
+ the Eames-directed plane building sequence from The Spirit of St. Louis, shot-by-shot
+ Dziga Vertov’s Человек с киноаппаратом shows us how to use modern shit
+ a deck of new strategies
+ 1200+ tweets as an rtf file, 2008-2010
+ Miranda July’s left hand
+ trying to summarize everything in 140 characters on encyclr (join me)
+ prior blog, 2006-2009, as continuous skein of text
+ an ongoing quotes file

mistaken memories

0: Why I did not kill myself in January of 2010
1: A machine for generating crystals
2: The moonbow

mp3 bedtime stories

Barry Perowne’s The Blind Spot / an almost perfect meta-mystery, 26m59s |
Isak Dinesen’s The Blue Jar / a life, a loss, a piece of porcelain, 6m35s |
“read all dog-eared pages of Proust” part 1 / memories, silence, landscape, lying, 18m28s |

( self-portrait )