Hermits in our digital Age

Hermits in our digital Age Lecture: Public Spaces – spring 2010 Florian Weil University of Art Linz – Master: Interface Culture

Agenda ● Hermits ● History ● Nowadays ● Social Splitting ● Conscious and unconscious decisions ● Thoughts and ideas ● Related Art Projects and Movements

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)

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

Interview ● Überleben offline - 3sat neues April, 18th ● http://wstreaming.zdf.de/3sat/veryhigh/100418_sen ● http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/neues/sendunge ● Interview: 6:20 ● Results: distraction, acceleration, focus, concentration, seperation, organization

Social splitting

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

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

THOUGHTS

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

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)

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!

IDEA - Cocoon Also Turmeremit Project in Linz http://www.linz09.at/de/pressefotos/download/1924857.html

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.)

Examples – Artworks & ...

Urban Camouflage Movement

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

Social Media Suicide Machine ● http://suicidemachine.org/ ● Context: Finding the exit – Deleting your profiles ● The first step to become a digital hermit

Social Bits Newsleak

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

The End ● Thank you for your attention! ● Any questions?

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

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