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Randall Packer

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The Future is Here

The Orwellian/dystopic vision of the future has manifested in such a benign way, that people don’t even seem to notice… Today’s world is largely made up of pixels. There is no denying it. As everything shifts from analog to digital, we essentially are moving from continuous waves to discreet numbers. That is the world we are becoming: an algorithmic arrangement of zeros and ones… So for now, I say, we may as well enjoy the pleasure of being tracked through the relinquishing of all things formerly private. For this is the age we have entered into, for better or for worse… Yes! That’s it: the rapid-fire, machine-gun stutter effects activate your never endings and your pleasure-synapses in the ultimate quest for the turned-on lifestyle. And perhaps, this blast to the nervous system is nothing less than the very essence of the everyday media life we live in the blazing fast lane of the high-tech post-reality… It’s a Brave New World out there at the edges of the third space. Because, in a sense, it’s all edge without borders, no center, no periphery, just unlimited space and time to experiment and redefine ourselves: collectively, as one body… Some day future cultures and civilizations will purchase tickets to tour our own crumpled monuments and ruinous arenas. I’ll begin right now working on the audio tour for that Show.

  • Is There Love in the Covid-19 Embrace? (5/19/2020)
  • Collapsing Six Feet of Separation (3/20/2020)
  • The Revolution will be Broadcasted via Facebook Live (10/20/2016)
  • Internet Radio: Anywhere Anytime Anyone Anything (3/22/2016)
  • At Work in the Hyperpresence (12/6/2015)
  • Everyone Wants to be on TV (6/23/2015)
  • Far Beyond the Suspension of Disbelief (5/26/2015)
  • A NetArtizens Reunion (4/11/2015)
  • On Being a NetArtizen (2/20/2015)
  • Net Behaviour(s) (1/17/2015)
  • The Last Show (11/24/2014)
  • The Intimacy of the Machine (10/25/2014)
  • Disruptive Technologies (9/6/2014)
  • Long Live the Super-participant (5/17/2014)
  • DJ of the Talk Show (5/6/2014)
  • A Socially Revolutionary Metamedium (5/1/2014)
  • The Collective Body (4/5/2014)
  • Just the Right Amount of Wrong (3/23/2014)
  • Giving up your Data (3/13/2014)
  • Media Transformations (2/16/2014)
  • Whatever (2/12/2014)
  • The Post-Human Condition (2/1/2014)
  • The Third Space (1/29/2014)
  • The Unreality of Life Itself (1/3/2014)
  • Why Live is not a Recording (11/24/2013)
  • The Omnipresence of distributed learning (11/21/2013)
  • Aspirations for the medium of the book (10/25/2013)
  • Life on the screen (9/15/2013)
  • The workflow of the totality of all things (9/12/2013)
  • A Present Without a Past Erases the Future (9/2/2013)
  • The cult of precision (9/1/2013)
  • Exposing the effects of media (7/31/2013)
  • Anything but trivial (7/19/2013)
  • It’s Just a Hyperkinetic Media Deconstruction Machine (7/14/2013)
  • Far Away in the Here and Now (6/29/2013)
  • Under the Watchful eye of Big Data (6/12/2013)
  • Art as Creative Dialogue (6/10/2013)
  • Giving up your data to the repository (6/8/2013)
  • Moon Traveling through Hyperreality (5/28/2013)
  • Bursting the Bubble (5/19/2013)
  • Reality on tap (5/9/2013)
  • Farewell, Forbidden City (5/2/2013)
  • Welcome to the Global Village (4/30/2013)
  • Masked Culture (4/25/2013)
  • On the Edge of Eastern Civilization (4/18/2013)
  • The Artist as Archivist (3/15/2013)
  • Always Seeing, Always Watching (8/27/2012)
  • Back to the future redux (5/17/2012)
  • When I Made my First Trip to the Moon (6/6/2011)
  • Post-academy (9/1/2009)

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