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"Yesterday's Objects: The Death and Afterlife of Everyday Things" is today at UCL, from 9am! http://www.autopsiesgroup.com/events.html
6:53 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
Waiting for that start of "Yesterday's Objects: The Death and Afterlife of Everyday Things" http://www.autopsiesgroup.com/events.html
9:20 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
I've already managed to spill tea all over myself. Not impressive in front of a film studies crowd. They all look very chic. I look damp.
9:23 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Yesterday's Objects Study Day starting...
9:36 AM Jun 4th via web
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über cool name badges at @autopsiesgroup event at University College London! http://twitpic.com/1trj8w
9:37 AM Jun 4th via Twitpic
CR
@ernestopriego have you noticed the distinct lack of lap tops...
9:37 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
First panel @autopsiesgroup is about issues of preservation of popular culture...
9:38 AM Jun 4th via web
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Mark Carnall, curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL presenting on preserving video game culture...
9:39 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
video games are still tentatively striving for a concrete affirmation and social acceptance
9:39 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
@clairey_ross LOL you are here too!
9:43 AM Jun 4th via web in reply to clairey_ross
CR
@ernestopriego yep just in front of you. Ive just been frowned at for typing to loudly. different crowd.
9:44 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Disappearance of video games: "the tragic death of youth." (Carnall). Lots of similarities between video games and comic books!
9:44 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross I've just noticed the comic book print! ;) Yeah, shhh! :p
9:45 AM Jun 4th via web in reply to clairey_ross
EP
@clairey_ross video games are still tentatively striving for a concrete affirmation and social acceptance
9:39 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Carnall has just shown the coolest genealogy of how Mario has evolved from the 8-bit era to the present!
9:50 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
charlie brookers why i love video games... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/11/charlie-brooker-i-love-videogames
9:52 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Mark Carnall, Curator, Grant Museum of Zoology talking about the anatomy of a video game. hes a really good speaker
9:59 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
I'm so glad @clairey_ross is here at @autopsiesgroup event because she's a great real-time twitterer if that makes sense
10:00 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Carnall's presentation is proving that comics scholars need to talk more to video game scholars. Many important similarities.
10:00 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
It's great that Mike Carnall is emphasising the physical/material/experiential dimension of video game culture. Not only 'virtual'.
10:01 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
@ernestopriego i try. its a shame there isnt a hashtag. if we're talking about preservation how are the tweets or the event being archived
10:02 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego you're not a bad real time tweeter either.
10:03 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
In case you wonder where we are, we are 'here' http://www.autopsiesgroup.com/events.html
10:03 AM Jun 4th via web

@clairey_ross tweet
10:03 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Mark Carnall: "we don't want and can't preserve everything."
10:05 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Carnall refers the Strong National Museum of Play http://www.museumofplay.org/
10:06 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
strong museum - the preservation of fun http://bit.ly/9ztach
10:07 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Next speaker is Jenny Chamarette on film performativity in museums...
10:08 AM Jun 4th via web
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Jenny Chamarette talking about he film as a museum ‘object’
10:09 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Chamarette: film as an 'uncertain object'
10:09 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
(Nice: http://www.icheg.org/ International Center for the History of Electronic Games)
10:11 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
How does film attain the status of a museum object?
10:11 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
the hyper presence of objects in everyday life. now that is a cool statement
10:14 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
As pointed out by @clairey_ross, there's only two of us with laptops in the audience. http://twitpic.com/1trqap
10:15 AM Jun 4th via Twitpic
EP
Chammarette: "object culture."
10:15 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Third laptop now. And nearly full house. I'm disturbing others with my typing and clicking so I won't tweet too much now. :/
10:17 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
is institutional preservation the same as display?
10:22 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
objects no longer have value in their own right? oooh touchy subject.
10:29 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
ack tweet deck #fail.
10:30 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross yup. cringe!
10:31 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Chamarette's presentation makes me think of the need to re-define the 'borders' of what we consider 'art forms.' Basically, what *is* film?
10:33 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
i dont really understand why film in undergoing status anxiety.
10:34 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross especially French cinema! Godard is god in France...
10:35 AM Jun 4th via web in reply to clairey_ross
CR
notion of the failed exhibit? can this be used to entry point for discussion?
10:35 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
"you have to stop justifying why it is important" says Carnall of video games, and yup, applies to comics as well!
10:37 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
intellectual justification is disconnected from 'real'object status of film and video gaming by the users
10:39 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
"why do you care; it's just throw-away culture!"
10:40 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
are video games throw away culture? is its simply escapism? does it actually need to be preserved?
10:40 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
@Rikke_Olafson a study day called Yesterday's object: the death and afterlife of everyday things http://www.autopsiesgroup.com/events.html
10:40AM Jun 4th via web
CR
links quite nicely todays event RT @sebchan 80s handheld game design - short post by @madebyhk http://bit.ly/dBqAmP
10:52AM Jun 4th via web
CR
Woop! RT @ignite_london: Stop the presses! Planning for Ignite London #3 is under way! http://bit.ly/a3GgTt
11:12AM Jun 4th via web
EP
It seems Martine Beugnet will present via Skype! :)
11:14 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
excellent! RT @ernestopriego: It seems Martine Beugnet will present via Skype! :)
11:15 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
I'll be presenting on this panel, titled Lost Objects/Objects at Risk
11:16 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross it's just awesome. She's in Paris. I love the interwebs.
11:17 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
Martine Beugnet discussing Mourning in the Age of the Digital: Memory, Loss, and Materialist Filmmaking via Skype! awesome
11:18 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
is there a relationship between filmmaking and mourning in the age of the digital?
11:20 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Martine discussing the death of the cinema http://bit.ly/crqdGo
11:24 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Does the fact we are witnessing a scholar *present* here via Skype prove 'real time' performance may *matter* more than physical presence?
11:24 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Beugnet cites this book by Paolo Cherchi Usai http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/v003/3.1trope.html
11:25 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
will moving image preservation be redefined as the science of gradual loss and the art of coping with the consequences?
11:28 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Name the discipline: "the science of gradual loss and the art of coping with the consequences" (Usai: 2001:105)
11:29 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
Will digital be the death of cinema? or simply making cinema more reflective about its past?
11:29 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
discussing the work of Frédérique Devaux - the K series. an reflection of cinema and collective memory
11:33 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Very interesting stills from the work of Frédérique Devaux (K series). They look like Andrei Molotiu's abstract comics or some Dave McKean
11:34 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Beugnet says Devaux uses scalpel on her film pieces, like Alberto Breccia, who used shaving blades for his comics!
11:36 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
Suddenly worried I may be part of a reactionary, nostalgic anxiety at pervasive 'digitalism.' I really hope not. Swear I love digital too!
11:38 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
By the way: RT @JSTOR Digitization Programme: Preservation Study conducted by JISC, Portico, U of London (2009). http://bit.ly/bewaj3
11:42 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
@ernestopriego it does seem to be towards an analog supremacy, but i guess that is always going to be the inherent bias in film studies
11:42 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
@clairey_ross I wonder what digital filmmakers think... filters used by R. Scott in the last RH film were awesome
11:44 AM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross yup, but digital is as prone to obsolescence as anything else or even more!
11:44 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
@ernestopriego it would be an interesting aspect to consider. I wonder if its soming the #autopsiesgroup are looking at
11:45 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Second speaker is Dr Mo White, an artist working on photographic and moving image media. She will talk about slide tape as abandoned tech
11:45 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
Mo White about to talk about the importance of slide-tape and if it is an abandoned technology
11:46 AM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
Retweeted by ernestopriego
RT @Schopflin @ernestopriego not very good 'late age of print' describes a book with fading ink, designed to disappear - as do e-books
11:50 AM Jun 4th via web
CR
First Memory (Slide-tape) by Nina Danino http://bit.ly/bczdN5
12:00 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
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up next @ernestopriego talking about Saving the Comic Book as Symbolic Object
12:03 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego unbreakable is one of my favourite films!
12:05 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
are Comic books a reaction to the destruction of everyday culture? An embodiment of the history of destruction of cultural object?
12:10 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
the idea of happiness is not really discussed. it should be.
12:10 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
comic books as the sequential reading of images. this is really interesting! can a art gallery be read the same way as a comic book?
12:12 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
There is an obsession to preserve comics. More for monetary value than for preserving cultural objects?
12:18 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@janetedavis it would be interesting to put academic comic book theories on art galleries see if there are simularities.
12:19PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
How deal with the fragility of comic books as symbolic narrative and artistic objects? what do we do? shove them in an archive? (1/2)
12:21 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
what about the comic book merchanise does archiving apply here too? should they all be kept together? (2/2)
12:21 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
availability of illegal digital surrogates
12:23 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Comic Book Markup Language http://www.cbml.org/
12:24 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
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digital comic book readers. eg. panelfly http://bit.ly/1Iz5yA
12:25 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
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can digital comic book readers really replicate the experience of reading a paper comic book
12:25 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
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comic book collector database www.collectorz.com/comic
12:26 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Lunch time in the square! There is people on bikini's! a nice idea! I think it would be frowned upon if I rocked up in a bikini for work.
1:02 PM Jun 4th via foursquare
EP
back from lunch! Margaret Stetz discussing The Brave Little Toaster from Print to Film: Obsolescent Appliances and Capitalist Allegories.
1:49 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
cool. differences between Thomas M. Disch’s The Brave Little Toaster:A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances &its adaptation as a Disney film
1:51 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Margaret Stetz talking about this animated film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_Little_Toaster_(film)
1:52 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
projecting gender onto an object that has none.
1:53 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Great question: "How to avoid the allure of allegory?" Applies to several fields/genres/media...
1:55 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
@Miremara te hubiera interesado esta conferencia, está buenísima (no lo digo porque yo participé, en serio)
[you would have been interested in this conference, it's very good (I'm not saying that because I participated in it, seriously)]
1:56 PM Jun 4th via web in reply to Miremara
EP
Realising Spanish speakers may have different attitudes to machinery since we give gender to machines
1:57 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Another interesting idea: difference between pirate and raider...
1:58 PM Jun 4th via web
irairaira
@ernestopriego uf "La tostadorcita valiente" es de mis películas favoritas de todos los tiempos.
[hmm, 'The Brave Little Toaster' is one of my favourite films of all time.]
1:54 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck in reply to ernestopriego
AliasCane
@ernestopriego I loved the Disch books! They lit up my childhood. Actually, Disch lit up my reading life like no one else ever could.
1:55 PM Jun 4th via web in reply to ernestopriego
EP
This presentation is making me want to revisit Toy Story... toys and obsolescence is a great topic too.
2:01 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
@irairaira curioso, yo pensé que era un tostador! Era la tostadorcita en español?
[How strange, I thought it was un tostator [masculine]! Is it la tostadorcita [feminine] in Spanish?]
2:03 PM Jun 4th via web in reply to irairaira
CR
quite scarey that childrens stories and disney can be seen to imply benevolent capitalism.
2:04 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Wikipedia: "The Alarm Clock/Radio A radio that constantly talks about anything of which it can think. [1/2]
2:04 PM Jun 4th via web
...it annoys the others by trying to seem intelligent." [2/2]<-- I can relate!
2:05 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross yup. Also heteronormativity!
2:06 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Hoping Margaret Stetz refers to the specificity of the film as stop motion animation
2:09 PM Jun 4th via web
irairaira
@ernestopriego sí! en México era una tostadorcita en femenino. Una peli difícil de conseguir y que sólo viste si eras niño del canal 11 :)
[Yes, in Mexico it is a feminine word. A difficult film to get hold of and one that only kids watching Channel 11 [a cultural channel] could have seen]
2:08 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck in reply to ernestopriego
EP
Do kids nowadays recognise the appliances in the Disney movie? Gasp.
2:13 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
"naturally we are on the cutting edge of technology...."
2:15 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
lyrics from Cutting edge - the brave little toaster : I can process words, accounting too &my pixel screen displays for you
2:17 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
From LEDs to CRTs Woofers, tweeters, antenna trees An ultra-nylon life of ease Everything you dreamed of on the edge and more
2:18 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence comes to mind after watching bits of the Brave Little Toaster Disney film
2:19 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli about to speak about Godard’s Dictations: The Histoire(s) du cinéma and the Erasure of Memory
2:19 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli now to present on Godard's 'Dictations'
2:20 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
its interesting that many of the speakers today are apologises for their lack of technology in their presentations
2:20 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Do you remember those early word processors/electric typewriters where you typed first and then the machine printed later?
2:23 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
watching Jean-Luc Godard’s mashup of obsolete technologies, and recycling overexposed images and sounds. very impressive
2:23 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
This is what we just saw (on DVD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiwUrrYl9s
2:26 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
"the accursed part of cinema" --- the assemblage of/with machines
2:28 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
"cinema is not media specific" [!] non?
2:29 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
what becomes of history,memory & sense perception when we increasingly rely on archives of media as source of perception & recollection.
2:29 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego back at you. is not odd that we are sitting next to each other yet still tweeting? nice to see tweeting action in the flesh.
2:33 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Wondering if this film by Godard can be seen as having a 'traumatic structure' or engaging with Adorno's "no poetry after Auschwitz"
2:35 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
"remediation" earlier media have refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production & photography
2:36 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
whats going to remediate the internet?
2:36 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Seems to me this film by Godard's is what DJ Shadow tried to do with Endtroducing... or dn'b selectahs with rewinds and turntablism
2:37 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
@ernestopriego its also very interesting that we appear to have the same taste in music...
2:37 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Has digital media changed what is meant by an ‘event’?
2:39 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
@clairey_ross remediation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGH7vIRMX7Q (no sound here of course)
2:40 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
what role does language play in the the personification of objects?
2:49 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@janetedavis its from a talk by a film studies lecturer. dont know where its from originally.I hear remediation I think contaminated land
2:20 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
why is theological language so commonplace in film studies discourse?
2:51 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego i think we are speaking a completely different language. which is werid. same concepts completely different interpretation
2:58 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
The Godard's film makes me think of the phrase/song: Can't Touch This
2:58 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
@clairey_ross yup, i mean Godard's film is 'recorded', I'm thinking of what VJs do, for example.
2:59 PM Jun 4th via web in reply to clairey_ross
CR
@ernestopriego there seems to be a lot of waffles and assumption and no actual direct evaluation and practical implicatiosn
3:00 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego im confused. my brain hurts. @ernestopriego quick give me a shot of a printed page. it will make things better
3:01 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego oooh thank you
3:03 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
This last paper made me think I really need to write about Moodymann.
3:04 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
prep for today's event involved listening to the divine comedy http://youtu.be/RnlLhq1kW10
3:05 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
"Lichtenstein did for comics what Warhol did for soup." -Art Spiegelman (pic taken at French dept at UCL today) http://twitpic.com/1ttz61
3:21 PM Jun 4th via Twitpic
CR
Dead object crises session starts with Will Viney - The Temporality of Waste
3:21 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Now Will Viney speaks of "The Temporality of Waste"
3:22 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
does our use and disuse of objects structure the time that we give them? surely thats not a question?
3:23 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@ernestopriego i didnt mean to be mean! I just dont understand.
3:24 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Twitter is the new, embarrassingly 'public' way of passing notes in class
3:24 PM Jun 4th via web
Retweeted by clairey_ross
@dirkvl its interesting how film study theory and art theory make simple archaeological and museological concepts complicated
3:26 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
"wearing" as gradual decay
3:29 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
Narrative trajectory of an object – dominated by a beginning a middle and end. (is that really the case? what of re-use, rediscovery ?)
3:31 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@dirkvl film and media studies are looking at the concept of dissuse and remediation of objects
3:32 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@dirkvl perhaps we should be having dialog with them about what they mean by it. different interpretations of object narratives
3:33 PM Jun 4th viq TweetDeck
EP
Thinking then of the Nike-iPod/iPhone app as means of tracking narrative trajectories of objects while used
3:33 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Viney's talk making me think of this photo by Mexican artist Tina Modotti http://cinemarx.cafe24.com/tina/cv_modotti.jpg
3:36 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
@janetedavis yes that is the conclusion I am reaching. it is a very theoretical discussion about physical objects.
3:37 Jun 4th viq TweetDeck
EP
...and this http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/1262204991_1f9b8c4096.jpg
3:38 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
"composing and decomposing meaning of objects"
3:38 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
Richard Osborne on now talking about Vinyl Farewells
3:38 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Robert Osborne now on #vinyl records!
3:39 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Brilliant statistics about vinyl sales in the UK by Osborne, 1,046,000 7" single copies in 2006
3:42 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
@janetedavis its nice to hear the film studies perspective. im at this event http://bit.ly/a9RTzQ its been really interesting so far.
3:43 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Osborne refers to Serato without saying its name, audience laughs... http://serato.com/scratchlive
3:45 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Osborne says "the dream" of records lasting forever was accomplished with digital media. Sorry, just not true.
3:48 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
In an ideal world, Richard Osborne and I would be able to mash-up our dissertations #comics #vinyl #dh
3:52 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
I'm suffering through this presentation about vinyl records. I want to scratch it, sample it, loop it, clean it, file it, swap it, admire it
3:55 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Osborne on the importance of size in vinyl records. It does matter.
3:58 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Osoborne cites Drate's gorgeous book 45 rpm: A visual history of the seven-inch record, which i highly recommend (Princeton 2002)
4:00 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Andy Hudson-Smith (CASA UCL) from @talesofthings is to present now!
4:01 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
I'm a huge fan of @talesofthings I have to say...
4:02 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
"What if everything was tagged? What if memories could be 'added' to objects?" -Hudson-Smith
4:03 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
what if memories could be added to objects? what if objects tweet? (i know they do already)
4:04 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
"What if objects could tweet?"
4:04 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
"30 researchers, 1 week, £5 million available, Dragons Den Style Peer Review" @Talesofthings was funded with 1.4 million pounds.
4:06 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
26.16 millones de pesos para un proyecto como @talesofthings. Check that out.
4:07 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
I wonder if @talesofthings have looked at my life as an object http://www.mylifeasanobject.com/
4:07 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
@clairey_ross or at found magazine http://www.foundmagazine.com/
4:08 PM Jun 4th via web in reply to clairey_ross
CR
Concept – capturing memories, any media, an object, a database of everything, read/write tags. Objects tweet when scanned and geolocated
4:09 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
my thing: http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/323/
4:09 PM Jun 4th via web
EP
Realising @talesofthings would be a brilliantly empowering tool for citizen journalists and democracy/human rights watchdogs
4:13 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
tagging architecture. nice.
4:14 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
What if citizens in countries like Mexico could tag our politicians/police/civil servants with a mobile phone @talesofthings?
4:14 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
people like things.
4:16 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
what do you do when you can create the geography of everything? http://bit.ly/avefFx
4:18 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Hudson-Smith talks of http://www.futureeverything.org/
4:19 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
now discussing RememberMe http://bit.ly/cLCvTe
4:21 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
thing theory - are these things that we no longer used?
4:24 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
EP
Thing Theory [PDF] http://faculty.virginia.edu/theorygroup/docs/brown.thing-theory.2001.pdf
4:24 PM Jun 4th via web
CR
whats the difference between a thing and a object? just semantics?
4:25 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
discussion has moved to what a single shoe represents - there is a consensus in the room that a single shoe has resonance with death.
4:31 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@adarel that sounds lovely. but to me a shoe is just a shoe. perhaps i have no depth.
16:33 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
do we need to forget the stories behind our objects? is that part of culture??? crikey a deep question from the audience.
4:36 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
i assume that suggests that museums are reduandant?
4:37 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
I really enjoyed todays event by @autopsiesgroup provided plenty of food for thought. exciting ideas. great. it hurt my brain by the end
7:36 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
CR
@dirkvl not even @melissaterras? Andy Hudson smith is also great. He was speaking today. @talesofthings is a brilliant project.
8:04 PM Jun 4th via TweetDeck
Autopsiesgroup
@clairey_ross thanks from all of us @Autopsiesgroup for your tweets from the study day yesterday & for your enthusiasm! Hope to talk more!
8:58 AM Jun 5th via web
Autopsiesgroup
@ernestopriego thanks for your great presentation yesterday & for your wonderful tweeting of the Autopsiesgroup study day! hope to talk more
8:59 AM Jun 5th via web
Autopsiesgroup
Thanks to everyone who presented papers and chaired at the Autopsiesgroup study day at UCL yesterday! We had a wonderful time listening!
9:02 AM Jun 5th via TweetDeck
Autopsiesgroup
Thanx to the great audience @Autopsiesgroup study day Yesterday's Objects! Great questions & enthusiasm! Hope you'll come to future events!
9:05 AM Jun 5th via TweetDeck
EP
@autopsiesgroup my pleasure, thank you!
12:04 AM Jun 6th via web
CR
@autopsiesgroup thanks for organising it. Really interesting day full of brilliant speakers.
[compiled for the autopsies blog by Jacob Paskins]