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Hermits in our digital AgeLecture: Public Spaces – spring 2010
Florian WeilUniversity of Art Linz – Master: Interface Culture
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Agenda● Hermits
● History● Nowadays
● Social Splitting● Conscious and unconscious decisions
● Thoughts and ideas
● Related Art Projects and Movements
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Hermits in history● Religion based background● Spatial based
● Living in hermitages, caves, desert or forest
● Social based● They have a solitary lifestyle
● Motivation● Sometimes misanthropy, refusing the social rules● Sometimes a life's work (avoid distraction)
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Hermits nowadays● Spatial based (not obligatory)
● Living in hermitages, caves, desert or forest● They can still live in our society
● Social based● They refuse the virtual (social) media● They have a complicated solitary lifestyle (not obligatory)
● Motivation● Avoiding to be a part of the acceleration of the society● Sometimes a life's work (avoid distraction) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9G2vX4CTsc
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Interview
● Überleben offline - 3sat neues April, 18th
● http://wstreaming.zdf.de/3sat/veryhigh/100418_sendung_neues.asx● http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/neues/sendungen/magazin/143390/index.html&cx=25
● Interview: 6:20
● Results: distraction, acceleration, focus, concentration, seperation, organization
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Social splitting
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Impacts of splitting
● Conscious decision to be an hermit● Impacts: no problems
● Unconscious decision to be an hermit● Social splitting under constraint● Impacts: conflicts will appear
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Characteristics of social splitting● Age-based (temporary)
● Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
● Knowledge-based● Digital Divide situation● Unfair access infrastructure of communication technology● Smart people learn much faster than less smart people,
because they are able to use the advantages of the internet.
● Problem: Big knowledge and communication gap between different societies
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THOUGHTS
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Thoughts #1● No real free choice of media, if you still want to be
a part of the society● Reminds me on „Zwang des Mediums“ from
Gerhard Maletzke: Feldmodell der Massenmedien
● New media services (like facebook, twitter, youTube, blogs etc.)● Disadvantage:delivers us too much information● Advantage: Best access and infrastructure for
liberalise the human knowledge and communication
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Thoughts #2
● Acceleration of the society will increase rapidly● More and more and faster information perception● Faster transport infrastructure (trains, air planes...)
● Acceleration causes stress → stress kills creativity and health of humans● This progresss is a desaster for a creative and knowledge
based society (our society)
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A try to solve Problems● Two main approaches for the future
● Reduction (via Filtering) of perception● Create deceleration infrastructure
Book resource: (Springer Verlag)Conceptions of the Desirable: What Cities Ought to Know about the Future
● Be inspired from hermits!
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IDEA - Cocoon
Also Turmeremit Project in Linzhttp://www.linz09.at/de/pressefotos/download/1924857.html
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Concept of the Cocoon● Strong separation of an environment● Avoiding any kind of distraction● Timeless space (deceleration space) for relaxing and
thinking/concentration
● Hermits and the nature create these kinds of seperate environments
● Possible project for public spaces. ● Cocoons everywhere (in parks, forests, public
transport, etc.)
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Examples – Artworks & ...
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Urban Camouflage Movement
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Urban Camouflage Movement● http://www.youtube.com/iNspIreNewMedia#p/a/u/0/Pfiywvh_Rls● http://urbancamouflage.de
● Context: Hiding in an normal environment
● Can give an impression of deceleration in an accelerate environment
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Social Media Suicide Machine
● http://suicidemachine.org/
● Context: Finding the exit – Deleting your profiles
● The first step to become a digital hermit
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Social Bits Newsleak
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Social Bits Newsleak● http://socialbits.org/
● Content: Twitter Messages● General News● Location based news
● Context: Location based Filtering
● Getting news from the internet society without being a part of it
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The End
● Thank you for your attention!
● Any questions?
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Sources of the pictures● http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/3295450246/sizes/o/ → hermit
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/bones_nl/4639651564/sizes/l/ → house
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodevil/1403449454/sizes/o/ → Generation Conflict
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulfloyd/3559266527/sizes/o/ → thoughts
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/15693951@N00/1545029206/sizes/l/ → nature cocoon
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviamiao/142940840/sizes/o/ → cocoon chair