In a couple of hours I will leave for Australia. It is a ten-hour flight to Sydney and then I will connect to Brisbane where I will spend an approximate week doing a seminar, meet students and faculty, and do some work of of my own. The seminar is going to be on “Interdisciplinary media [...]

While emailing, text messaging and chatting with someone today, the power of media integration and context-provision dawned upon me. I was asking this person whether she thought it would be alright to do a rather long walk and instead of explaining the actual walk I just sent (in the chat program) a link to the [...]

When arriving to SFO this morning for a conntecting flight to go East I was stopped in the security check. I am a diabetic and my syringes casued quite a lot of concern. I did not have a prescription or anything with me that could prove that I am a diabetic. Also they were not [...]

Yesterday I did a presentation for a group of Media Design students and Pasadena Art Center College of Art. They are a nice bunch of people with varied backgrounds – and I really enjoyed spending time with them and discussing media, technology and various intersections. Today I met with Mark Stephen Meadows and we talked [...]

I spent some time at Borders in Santa Cruz yesterday. I had an hour before a meeting so I chose not to pay $10 to get a wireless connection. Lots of people reading books (that they hadn’t bought – which is the custom at the big chains here – although I think most of the [...]

I am going to discuss interdisciplinary design research at Pasadena Art Center College of Art tomorrow. Need to get going soon. There is something about going south along the coast in California…
Yes, interdisciplinarity. I will think about it going south. Connections, hot nodes, respect, mutual gains, non-traditionalism, breaking out and being where exciting things [...]

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