INTRODUCTION
1. Backstory The collaboration between Nicole Dewandre and Frederik De Wilde took initially form as series of conversations, both oral and written, in Ispra and in Brussels. Frederik's interest for the Onlife Initiative and the figure of the relational self has been a wonderful opportunity for Nicole to clarify and dig deeper into the relations between hyperconnectivity and n
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HYPERCONNECTIVITY: THE NAME OF OUR ERA!
1. What is hyperconnectivity? Hyperconnectivity is not simply a generic expression for the bulk of information and communication technologies as they exploded in the last three decades. Hyperconnectivity is, in my view, the name of an era coming into being under our eyes and which comes after Modernity, as Middle Age came after Antiquity. The ubiquitous access to internet and the expansion of con
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GREEN LIGHT FOR CRIMINALISING CREATIVITY
1. Article 13: Repressive storm over the Internet Over the last two decades, developments in both digital technologies and information and communication systems have led to profound changes in the production, distribution, exploitation and consumption of creative input. Although this sentence was taken from the foreword of the proposal for a directive on Copyright, the EU, with the adoption of
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SWIMMING IN BITS
1. Swimming in Bits: Searching for truth as a long-lost friend The thematic context of this paper focuses on the journal’s titled provocations, such as; ‘the deployment of digital technologies and hyperconnectivity’. I am writing this text from the perspective of an artist who is trying to make sense of what has taken place, and what are the achievements, failures, expectations, demand
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HOME AND/OR HYPERCONNECTIVITY
1. Home and/or hyperconnectivity On July 9th. 2013 the Onlife Initiative (OI) was presented in Brussels; it was discussed to discover e.g. the ‘blind spots’ and, in the words of chairman Floridi, to try and create a Manifesto ‘for mum’. One of the most elementary items in the document was - and to me still is – the current dichotomy of private space vs. public space, which is – s
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