living information material life

Living InformationMedia & Information02 Material Life

Media and Information are…ubiquitous and pervasive.intimate and personal.special and ordinary.messy.

"media are are any (symbolical or technological) systems that enable,

structure or amplify communication between people."

media are infrastructures with three components: the artifacts or devices used used to communicate or convey information, the activities and practices in which people engage to communicate or share information, and the social arrangements or organizational forms that develop around those devices and practices.

media as artifacts

media as activitiesmedia as arrangements

media as artifacts

1. the remote control

2. the video recorder

3. the joystick

4. the computer mouse

5. the mobile phone

the dark side of media as artifacts

when media are born

when media die

“…enough to fill a line of dump-trucks stretching half way around the globe.”.

“…alarming is that only 5% of this amount is recovered.”

Living InformationMedia & Information02 Material Life