This document discusses future technologies and creative works exploring new digital frontiers. It describes several projects like "Robot-readable world" that envision how machines could understand visual media. Other projects like "Wanderlust" and "Pigeon blog" explore location-based or mobile storytelling. The document also references "Pig Chase", an art project tracking pigs using sensors. In conclusion, the document argues there are intriguing new creative avenues emerging below the surface of mainstream media like the "New Aesthetic" and "Epizoic Media". It suggests "Creolization" could be a metaphor for envisioning the future by blending disparate elements.

1. LUNCH BYTES
WHERE DID THE FUTURE GO?
NICOLAS NOVA, 21.06.2012, WASHINGTON
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are these “futures” cargo cult?

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14. Study by Digital Results, Amsterdam, 2012
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18. Robot-readable world (Timo Arnall, 2012)

19. Cinema City (Jonathan Rennie, 2010)

20. Blinks and Buttons (Sascha Pohflepp, 2006)
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21. The descriptive camera (Matt Richardson, 2012)
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22. stories tailored to your
location
Wanderlust (Six to Start, 2011)

23. Trippy, RJDJ

24. Pigeon blog (Beatriz da Costa, 2006)
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25. Pig Chase (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Wageningen University and Wageningen UR Livestock
Research, 2012)
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26. Pig Chase (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Wageningen University and Wageningen UR Livestock
Research, 2012)
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27. Pig Chase (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Wageningen University and Wageningen UR Livestock
Research, 2012)
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28. A ship adrift (James Bridle, 2012)
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29. A ship adrift (James Bridle, 2012)
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33. SO WHAT?
1. Intriguing creative avenues below the media surface:
New Aesthetic, Epizoic Media, Networked objects, etc.
2. Creolization as a metaphor to envision the future...

34. TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch (2011-2012)
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35. TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch (2011-2012)
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36. THANK YOU MERCI GRACIAS DANKE GRAZIE
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