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Observation Exercises
Interview with Nicolas Nova
A teacher and researcher at HEAD – Genève, Nicolas Nova recently published the book Exercices d'observation, which invites us to train our attention skills. Composed of short texts, it is illustrated by sketches which are themselves ways of…
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Talking Heads – Olia Lialina
Experience of Experiencing Experience
In this Talking Heads conversation with art critic Jill Gasparina and digital anthropologist Nicolas Nova, Lialina bears witness to the paradigm shift that took place in the 2000s with the passage from a user culture to a mass culture, where…
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An Innovative Report on Old Technologies
An Interview with Low-Tech Magazine Founder Kris De Decker
New technologies often come with harmful side effects, on both the ecological and psychosocial levels. Rather than putting the emphasis on novelty, Kris De Decker tries to address our human needs with articles about forgotten technologies, recycling,…
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Juxtapositions and Hyperlinks
Montage from Comics to Digital Cultures
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the position that montage in comics takes place in…
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Ethnography through Design
We are sharing a paper originally co-authored by Lysianne Léchot-Hirt and Nicolas Nova for the scientific periodical Techniques & Culture. The paper describes how the “creation-research” approach used by designers constitutes a unique form…