[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: [Yasmin_an] Fwd: 100VoicesMcLuhan Oct 13, 14 , 15 in Frankfurt

[Stewart Dickson]

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Subject: 	[Yasmin_an] Fwd: 100VoicesMcLuhan Oct 13, 14 , 15 in Frankfurt
Date: 	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:34:11 +0200
From: 	roger malina <rmalina at alum.mit.edu>
Reply-To: 	YASMIN ANNOUNCEMENTS <yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr>
To: 	yasmin_announcements <yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr>



Yasminers

In a couple of weeks we will start a discussion on the YASMIN
discussion list around the ideas and concepts that were explored
by Marshall McLuhan, who was born a hundred years ago.

Stephen Kovats will be participating and brings to your attention
the upcoming project linked to the Frankfurt Bookfair

Roger


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From: Stephen Kovats<kovats at mcluhan2011.eu>

McLuhan Open Studio (MOS) publishing project "100 Voices McLuhan"

It is proposed that through the vehicle of the McLuhan Open Studio at
the Frankfurt Book Fair a series of 100 quotes/statements be created
taking advantage of the many international participating authors,
publishers, academics as well as publishing and technology experts. As
a special edition celebrating the McLuhan Centennial, the '100 Voices
McLuhan' project is intended to produce a collective manifesto for
(i.e.) the 'Future of Communication', in the spirit of Marshall
McLuhan as he saw media, technology, communication and the human
being, but 'upgraded' to the 21st century - the era in which we now
actually begin to experience many of the famed media philosopher's
theories. Being a linguist, writer and innovative, perhaps even
avant-garde' publisher himself, McLuhan defined many of the ways in
which the acceleration of society needs to be reflected the printed
word, and how the printed word indeed acts a supplementary and
necessary extension of our perception and being when media - and
today's digital environment - increase our rate of information
production.

In 2010 the transmediale festival for art and digital culture in
Berlin examined some of these questions in fundamental ways within the
theme of 'Futurity Now'. It was postulated that in certain aspects the
common cultural notion of 'future' had begun to expire in the late
20th century, it's 'downfall' being triggered by the Apollo moon
landing in 1969, the height of McLuhan's 'main d'oeuvre'. Today we are
experiencing a scenario that has easily moved beyond the 20th
century's pre-occupation with the future, with social, mobile and
simultaneous real-time networking and communications on the side of
utopian notions of the future, Chernobyl, Fukushima, the politics of
fear/terror, censorship and omnipresent surveillance being on the
distopian side. We have entered a time in history where the old
definitions and expectations of the future are no longer valid as we
are now experiencing and living them in a present which is not so
certain whether it can manage its own technological construct. We need
to consider and create a new vocabulary of what the 'future' as a
cultural concept is.

The '100 Voices McLuhan' project is intended to ask and survey this
position, framing it within the Book Fair 2011 themes encircling the
notions of 'content drives technology' with questions including
'a-synchronous or collaborative publishing', 'augmented reality' or
'accelerated communication' among other themes. For '100 Voices
McLuhan' questions/positions asking about 'the future of
communication' for example, will be based on known (and lesser known)
quotes and statements by Marshall McLuhan.

100 Voices McLuhan will survey the entire period of the Book Fair
October 10 - 16, and in close collaboration with the Book Fair
'Sparks' team would like to present one panel discussion or debate
with renowned McLuhan scholars such as Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove, and
leading international figures involved in the cultural re-orientation
of our perception of the future, such as sci-fi author Bruce Sterling,
open web publisher Adam Hyde (booki.cc) and designer Christopher
Perterka (gannaca.com). Such a discussion could take place during the
Sparks event on the Book Fair Friday, and act as a focal point between
the publishing experts and the broader general public that the Book
Fair will attract.

The material created by the McLuhan Open Studio project '100 Voices
McLuhan' @Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 is intended to be collated live
online, perhaps using special augmented reality tools and
visualizations, and produced in collaboration with Gingko Press
released as a special McLuhan Centennial edition.
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