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The document explores the concept of 'neo-nomads' in a globally interconnected society where traditional boundaries and identities are becoming increasingly irrelevant. It highlights the rise of a shared digital culture that merges and homogenizes experiences while also fostering uniqueness and weirdness as forms of expression. Additionally, it discusses the implications of hyper-realities and the continuous evolution of brands in response to these shifting contexts.
New Sovereignties.pptx
- 1. 1 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE New Sovereignties Neo-Nomads, Context Collapse & The Strange
- 2. 2 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE 30 speakers from all over the world across two days and multiple venues under the theme of utopias Resonate IO 43 Talks & 24 Performances across three venues over four days in Belgrade, Serbia
- 3. 3 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE In a globally networked society, conventional borders no longer make sense. The Gig Economy, affordable intercontinental travel, and Airbnb’s are breeding a new kind of IRL neo-nomad. We no longer have to live anywhere or do anything permanently. Our existence, in fact, is more concrete on platforms, in the cloud and through the data we generate and collect. We are a people that are constantly in flux, constantly in a state of preparation for what is coming next.
- 4. 4 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Context Collapse Perfect Parity / Hyper Realities The Grotesque and the Weird
- 5. 5 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The new individuals can live anywhere, adapt or conform to any situation. In some cases this means assimilating themselves to the point of homogenization. In other ways this means subverting norms and expressing themselves in wild, and sometimes bizarre ways. These are individuals who have access to all points of reference all at once. A veritable global neural network that defies and ignores borders. They are global, shape-shifting cyborgs.
- 6. 6 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE “Tell either side there’s no wall. You bought a war.”
- 7. 7 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE ● 1 million reddit users ● Paint one pixel each, every five minutes ● Over 16 million pixels painted ● Competition for space, territory designs played out over real time ● Resulting in a giant, borderless, messy collage ● Represents multiple cultures, countries, aesthetics, in- jokes, memes, etc
- 8. 8 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The Stack In lieu of geographical boundaries, author Benjamin Bratton imagines the world through six layers, or stacks. We interface, engage and interact more through these layers than we do geographically now. For example: If I am an American generating data that is collected in Belgrade, who does it belong to? Where does it exist exactly? What about data collected in a region whose national identity is contested globally?
- 9. 9 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Conflict emerges when everyone defines utopia/dystopia differently “Our world is built in clicks, views & shares” Form&’s sculpture Microutopias is a physical installation that explores how utopias can “form, coalesce, disperse, and form again.” Asks, what are the implications of being exposed to so many ideas, cultures, beliefs, and communities all at once? How do they throw into question the meaning of utopian or dystopian futures? Micro-Utopias /// Form&
- 10. 10 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE We are all part of the same system. Every brand, product, consumer, regardless of choice, is in some capacity interrelated and connected. Distinctions between concepts no longer mean the same thing they once did. “It’s all still salsa”
- 11. 11 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Everything by David OReilly A game where players can literally be “everything” Move as an essence in the world through animals, objects, phenomena “Everything depicts a world where all objects are both combined and separated, paradoxically of the same substance yet with unfathomable gaps between them.”
- 12. 12 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Short film about an AI that develops in a satellite and travels to Earth Imagines what a sentience that has “access to everything” would want to become. “Total recall, forever”: What does it mean to be a conscious neural network? Only conclusion: To be an artist. To embrace the irrational. Love, cruelty, truth. Geomancer
- 13. 13 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE In consuming and creating the same stuff everywhere, both similarities and differences emerge, regardless of location. The web exposes everyone, even if just in a superficial way, to different cultural touchstones. They become raw material for creative work in all areas of the world. Thinking about culture through geographical boundaries no longer makes sense when all cultures have unfettered access to each other. The irony of globalization is that it both opens up access to multiple cultures at once while homogenizing those cultures at the same time.
- 14. 14 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Context Collapse The homogenization of expression and communication through social media. Example: Photos out plane windows, with tigers, handstands, food. Only a handful of filters (re: Snapchat AR) everyone is using. In turn, this pervasive sameness begins affecting the real world: What is photographed, where we’re photographed, etc. Companies can no longer glean anything from consumers because they all act/look the same online.
- 15. 15 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Neo-Nomads /// Placelessness Welcome to Air Space Airbnb’s have spread throughout the world. Homogenization of space to fulfill expectations of comfort The Airbnb look or aesthetic: Generic, characterless, sterile. Can be “filled in” by any people, traveling anywhere. Cultivating a “harmonization of taste” among consumers.
- 16. 16 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Neo-Nomads /// Placelessness LOT-2046 Apolis
- 17. 17 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Surging popularity of casual adventure/travel wear Always prepared to go anywhere. Always ready for any climate or condition. Neo-Nomads /// Placelessness
- 18. 18 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The DNA Journey ● Reveal historical genetic make- up to individuals. ● Present their results as mixed, borderless. ● Throws into question national, cultural and ethnic identity.
- 19. 19 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Casa Jasmina /// Permanent Beta (Bruce Sterling & Jasmina Tesanovic) “Open-sourced, connected home of the future” in Turin, Italy "A laboratory for experiments in home automation and the Internet of Things" “You should never trust a utopia without an expiration date.” “The idea that we would get out of it is what made it successful.” Open Airbnb, so anyone could live with the designs and their designers.
- 20. 20 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Imagining durable, open-sourced, internet- connected design as coextensive with a nomadic, modular lifestyle A temperature control system, a sensor tower, a lightning system, an amplifier, a small thermal printer and a smart mirror. All made by hand in Fablab Torino, with open source technologies that are available to anyone.
- 21. 21 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Mandate around content: Tantalizing, terrifying, taboo topic per issue. We don’t often give respect to spaces that have the most influence: video games, pornography Nostalgia as a source of mixing high/low culture Talking about things we care about today is more intimate than Tinder. Sofa Magazine /// Ricarda Messner & Caia Hagel Sample topics: cybersupportgroups, hook-up apps, webcam love, virtual nationhood, net art, hacking & stalking, porn tag hegemonies, AI empathy, political videogaming & digital sexercising
- 22. 22 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Perfect Parity/Hyper Realities What happens when we finally arrive at the point when reality can be wholly reconstructed virtually? How do we distinguish the virtual from the real? What are the implications for evidence, truth and proof? Once we reach the upper bands of parity, how do we progress forward, beyond that achievement?
- 23. 23 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Perfect Parity /// Hyper Realities Now at the point where we can create images that are practically indiscernible from reality
- 24. 24 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Hyper Realities Increasingly perfecting how well we can virtually recreate “reality” The magic of CGI is “broken” when the difference between it and reality is indiscernible. Dangerous implications of not being able to tell the difference between real and virtual We can now make reality “more real” than itself.
- 25. 25 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The Weird & The Eerie “We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of recombining nature’s products into hideous new forms” - Mark Fisher, The Weird & The Eerie
- 26. 26 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The Weird & The Eerie A way of distinguishing oneself online. Breaking the homogenizing the effects of Context Collapse. Moving laterally away from the arbitrary distinction between real and virtual. Use digital detritus, messiness, the bizarre to make oneself stand out and move virally.
- 27. 27 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Both for weirdness sake and as a political act. Blurring boundaries helps us question why those borders exist in the first place. Tradition is subverted to create something new. Blurring the borders between conventional objects Dark Matter Shiv Integer
- 28. 28 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Warburton’s “Wilderness” Rather than recreate reality, create something so unreal as to render it wholly unique. Strangeness as defying the status quo. Hyper-reality requires big Hollywood budgets. Weirdness can be accomplished by individual artists. More durable, viral. Spreads because it is so bizarre. Also: Inherent intimacy in its rawness & emotion. Coordinated Movement Uterus Man
- 29. 29 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Cool 3D World Videos often make no sense whatsoever. Watch with incredulity. Often involve the human body being contorted and twisted in unrealistic and discomforting ways.
- 30. 30 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE SUPER DELUXE A production studio that generates virality through live video and across multiple social media platforms. Absurd, weird, zany. According to Hammer, there’s no reason all these seemingly unrelated projects shouldn’t exist side by side — there’s no brand identity more compelling than “complete creative freedom.” Leveraging the “punk rock” energy of YouTube creators’ culture.
- 31. 31 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Kenneth Tin-Kin hung Absurd pastiche of corporate and political aesthetics on a global level. Everything is juxtaposed and smashed together, implying a systemic connection across geographical boundaries. Silly, over-the-top, weird.
- 32. 32 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Yves Tumor “Serpent Music is a slippery album, as it’s title suggests, made more so by its allusions to spirituality, including a song named for Dajjal, Islam’s antichrist, and a lighter, maybe more hopeful one called “Role in Creation.” We don’t know if we are in heaven or hell here, and that seems to be the point.” Confrontational, messy, noisy, a fusion of styles, dialects, sounds. No singular point of reference. Remains anonymous and unanchored to any identity or geographical location. Anonymous but many identities all at once.
- 33. 33 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Takeaways Brands must constantly adapt to new conditions, identities, contexts. Always evolving, to be in a constant state of flux Everyone is always competing with everything else. It’s no longer about one type of consumer, brand or product in their own domain – everything is interrelated regardless of context. Distinguish yourself – Don’t blend in. Context Collapse means it is easy to conform to a singular identity. Leverage social media, so that the work stands out. The weird, bizarre, strange – these are durable. Their uniqueness lends them to virality. Don’t need to go overboard with production values just need a singular vision that distinguishes it from everything else.
Editor's Notes
- #5 Image: Eva Papamargariti
- #7 BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
- #8 Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels
- #9 The Stack by Benjamin Bratton | MIT Press
- #10 Internet Age Media Special Projects: Micro-Utopias presented by Form&
- #11 Clip from new show American Gods. The “New Gods” clash with the “Old Gods” each representing meaning, purpose and culture and how they’ve evolved from old institutions into new ones. Mr. World goes on a rant about interconnectivity and systems relating it to branding. Sure there is choice, but in a globalization there is still just one product. All part of a larger system.
- #12 Everything, a Must-Play Game Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before As you occupy the life of a family of algae or read the thoughts of a television with relationship problems, Watts tells you about the basic interconnectivity of all things, the way in which we are all a part of one grand, luminescent thing. It's symbiosis on a mass scale, writ across the innumerable bodies that populate the universe. O'Reilly told me that Everything is designed to run forever. He described it to me as an "organism that keeps going." Left its own devices, it will, in fact, play itself, running in an autoplay mode based on settings that you can calibrate to your own whims.
- #13 In 2065, a Military Satellite Becomes Self-Aware—and Wants to Become an Artist The weird + eerie: an interview with Lawrence Lek on crossing the line + exposing the deeply embedded through VR
- #15 I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience
- #16 1. WELCOME TO AIRSPACE: How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
- #17 1. Apolis, Monocle, and the branding of the ‘Placeless Aesthetic’ “Placeless fashion takes its meaning from the authenticity of the “non-place”, the French philosopher Marc Auge’s term for anonymous spaces like airports and malls. Perhaps these days, we identify more closely with the ambiguities of these spaces than the easy geographical definitions of specific countries or cities. Our clothing is evolving in turn.” 2. LOT-2046 3. Where Well-Made Basics and Good Conscience Come in the Same Bag “No matter what I tried on, though, or how I styled it in the canvas tent that serves as a fitting room, the clothes had a strange homogenizing effect. Rather than wearing my political values, or my eccentricities of taste, on my sleeve, I was instead sandpapered into an innocuous cipher. The clothes took the edge off with almost narcotic precision. From every angle, I looked exactly the same: a man with nowhere to be, and all the time in the world to be there.”
- #18 First Came Normcore. Now Get Ready for Gorpcore. The Prepper Obsession With Clothes
- #20 Casa Jasmina combines Italian design with connected home technologies **DYLAN -- I don’t follow the third, fourth and fifth points here -- can you clarify or be ready to talk to this "Maker spaces, hackspaces and collaborative design offices are appearing all over the world as part of a big, global trend toward open-source design, networked collaboration and digital manufacturing," said Sterling. "But – in the future – what would it be like to live that way in daily life?" Casa Jasmina
- #21 POSTCARD FROM CASA JASMINA: THE HOME OF THE FUTURE AT SALONE DEL MOBILE Postcard from Casa Jasmina – Chatting with the Home of the Future is an interactive installation representing a compact version of the home of the future. The exhibition is part of tech.NO.MAD – Feeling at Home Everywhere, an event born in collaboration with ThingsCon Milan, growITup, Cariplo Factory, THINGS and The Good Home. Five days of talks, workshops and exhibits on the concept of a neo-nomadic lifestyle. Because nowadays, with the aid of technology, one can feel at home anytime and anywhere. The installation is made of six devices, framed in simple and archetypal wooden structures, for six of the most common functions in a domestic setting: a temperature control system, a sensor tower, a lightning system, an amplifier, a small thermal printer and a smart mirror. All made by hand in Fablab Torino, with open source technologies that are available to anyone.
- #22 Sofa Magazine After Generation Z’s prophecies in SOFA 1, which showed, among other dazzling themes, how digital life informs contemporary identity, personal relationship and economic, political and social power for teens today—we journey deeper into cyberspace with post-teens for SOFA II. While orbiting the new frontiers of cybersupportgroups, hook up apps, webcam love, virtual nationhood, net art, hacking & stalking, porn tag hegemonies, AI empathy, political videogaming & digital sexercising, we look at the allure of digital relationships and how these are a new meta level of loving and being that solve some of yesterday’s problems while creating new ones for tomorrow. We interview mavericks and uncover the glitzy participation promoted by cyberculture to ask whether it is real democracy or if user-friendly atmospheres mask deeper emotional and psychological manipulations. In the bedroom, the boardroom and the political alleys, SOFA II lays out what’s brand new in sexy, and unsexy, technologically fuelled connections. Through confessions, inquiries, essays, interviews, fashion futurisms and passionate dispatches, we find out what our brains, our hearts—and our digital lives—really are, and where all this is heading.
- #24 Hyperreal CG This Artist Used a Computer Model of His Face to get a French National ID
- #27 Merge Simpson, Spongebool and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez are in Berlin Cite: Yves Tumor Alan Warburton (“The Frontier”, artists he cites) Matthew Hernandez-Plummer Morehshin Allahyari
- #28 M. Hernandez Plummer - Shiv Integer Shiv Integer is a bot making assemblage art for 3D printers. Rummaging through Thingiverse, the biggest online 3D-Print community and a vast archive of user-made models - full of knick-knacks and engineering parts - the bot picks objects at random to conjoin into sculptures and gives them apt word-salad names such as "disc on top of an e-juice golf." The process follows a lineage of Dadaist readymade and chance art, but also explores the authorship-inheritance of Creative Commons licensing, as well as performing an archiving of an Internet subculture, taking cross-database snapshots of 3D-Print culture. Morehshin Allahyari - Dark Matter Dark Matter is a series of combined, sculptural objects modeled in Maya and 3D printed to form humorous juxtapositions.; The objects chosen for the first series are the objects/things that are banned or un-welcome in Iran by the government. The objects that in many other countries people use or own freely but under Iranian government laws (for several reasons) are forbidden or discouraged to use. Owning some of these objects/things (dog, dildo, gun, neck tie, satellite dish, etc.) means going to jail, or getting a fine, or constantly being under the risk of getting arrested or bothered by the moral police. By printing and bringing the virtual 3D into physical existence, I want to simultaneously resist and bring awareness about the power that constantly threatens, discourages, and actively works against the ownership of these items in Iran. No matter how functional, through 3D printing, I am able to re-create and archive a collection of forbidden objects. In a way, the sculptural objects serve as a documentation of lives (my own life included) lived under oppressions and dictatorship. This is the documentation of a history full of red lines drawn in the most private aspect of one’s life. What will happen when you re-contextualize the forbidden/banned/taboos? Could inserting the sculptures into another time and space change our relationship to these objects and challenge us to enter an historical dimension of the work? In other words, through positioning the tabooed I want to re-emphasize the dramatic and ironic aspect of forbidden; When looking back in twenty years, how would it feel to re-visit this collection?
- #29 Mike Pelletier - Coordinated Movement Q. and A.: Lu Yang on Art, ‘Uterus Man’ and Living Life on the Web
- #30 Cool 3D World Instagram
- #31 The Viral Machine If Super Deluxe is the future of entertainment, it’s because it isn’t much like a TV channel or a media company. It’s more like a tool for supporting inexperienced talent in a entertainment world that’s been stuck in its ways. Being on every single platform at once makes Super Deluxe as multi-functional as a Swiss army knife. It can serve as a translator between two parties — the amateurs of the internet and the stubborn pros of Hollywood — who are constantly dancing around each other. That idea courses through every single thing Super Deluxe produces. The studio will bring Joanne the Scammer, an Instagram star, to TV. It took a viral homemade documentary to Sundance. It intends to monetize Facebook Live by throwing together young talent and unique tech on a rickety, bare-bones platform. Super Deluxe’s hustle mimics that of the stars it hopes to create — success could be anywhere, so you might as well try everything.
- #32 Bizarre and Beautiful: The Imaginative Mind of Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
- #33 And then came Serpent Music, Tumor’s biggest statement yet. It is a beguiling introduction to a larger world, featuring the incredibly soulful highlight “The Feeling When You Walk Away,” which almost sounds like a lost B-side from a 1970s funk band. But then Tumor shifts quickly to lefter contexts, including songs filled with ambient nature sounds, field recordings of a man talking, harsh and fuzzy loops, and then, ultimately, what sounds like a choir of angels. Serpent Music is a slippery album, as it’s title suggests, made more so by its allusions to spirituality, including a song named for Dajjal, Islam’s antichrist, and a lighter, maybe more hopeful one called “Role in Creation.” We don’t know if we are in heaven or hell here, and that seems to be the point.