Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Passing through

We are too much persuaded that we are the solid ones, and the internet is the home of ephemerality.

Time-lapse video of static objects and ghostlike flickering humans: this is the world perceived from the point of view of websites.

3 comments:

nick stewart said...

Thanks again for excellent talk at WSA today. Will you be posting it on here?

Sean Cubitt said...

not here Nick - bits have appeared, or related items: a version will be available internally; and a longer version of the second part is on my slideshare (linked lower down the page)

milkred said...

that is so beautifully true

it makes me remember william gibson's concept of a 'walled city', a visualisation of an online community, a briefest flicker of an address before it moved to another segment of the net. the most amazing thing is that he wrote it in 1996