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Digital artisans manifesto
BASIC BANALITIES BY RICHARD BARBROOK AND ANDY CAMERON
COMMON SENSE FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
Information technology has no destiny - it simply mediates social relations between people.
Cyberspace is not a consensual hallucination, it is a construction site created by human labour.
People create their own technology, but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Artist-engineers must create virtual spaces fit for human habitation.
Your taxes built the Net - thank the agencies of the state for their visionary planning.
The information superhighway is a Keynesian jobs creation scheme.
State, corporate and DIY - mix ‘n’ match the path to the digital future.
Information doesn’t want to be free - but people do.
Technology is not the issue.
Aaron Koblin - The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to “draw a sheep facing to the left.” Animations of each sheep’s creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com.
a new type of musical instrument. It uses knitting to communicate the joy of music making and practice through rhythm, pattern, structure, language and repetition. The Knittophone can then be swiped over the surface of the knitting which translates the patterns into music.
