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The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would be considered schizophrenic in the last century. We have more friends than ever before yet know new frontiers of isolation. The quantification of our experience haunts us in the form of a persistent history. And we are distracted more than we ever knew possible. These circumstances are paradoxically a description of the near future and a diagnosis of the current state of affairs. The truly timeless is redefined – it has transcended that which is classic; it has become that which is never finished.
Timeless
a video essay / design fiction by KS12
Directed and Edited by Gabriel Shalom
Designed by Patrizia Kommerell
Produced by KS12
Producer: Karen Cifarelli
Commissioned by MU, Eindhoven mu.nl
Curated by Angelique Spaninks
Production Assistant: Rob Versteeg ropski.nl
Interviews
(in order of appearance)
Bernhard Herrmann herrmann-lehrmittel.de
Rafaël Rozendaal newrafael.com
Bruce Sterling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
Peter Kirn pkirn.com
Jorien Kemerink foodlabeindhoven.com
Markus Kayser markuskayser.com
Elske van der Putten heyheyhey.nl
Vivian van Gaal strp.nl
Toby Barnes about.me/tobybarnes
Mary Flanagan maryflanagan.com
Ghost Box
Concept and Design: KS12
Electronics: Philip Steffan bausteln.de
Manufacture: Günter Herrmann Lehrmittelfabrik herrmann-lehrmittel.de
3D Prototype Modeling: Mendel Heit mendelheit.com
Fabrication Consultant: Fons Schiedon fonsschiedon.com
STRP Artworks
Edwin van der Heide DSLE -2- (2011) evdh.net
Marnix de Nijs Exploded Views 2.0 (2011) marnixdenijs.nl
Telcosystems 12_series (2010) telcosystems.net
Digitale Werkplaats Bristlebots (2011) nerdlab.nl
Bart Hess Liquified (2011) barthess.nl
Fourcelabs Dance Engine (2011) fourcelabs.com
Music
Excerpt from “sketch_111229” by stra.
© 2011 Shingo Inao soundcloud.com/stra-1
“Anaxagoras” and “MeeBlip Landscape” by Peter Kirn
© 2011 Peter Kirn soundcloud.com/peterkirn
“Melted Rubber Soul” by Campfires
© 2011 Jeff Walls campfires.bandcamp.com
Special Thanks
Bernhard Herrmann
Helmut Seefeld
Shot on location in Eindhoven, NL during the STRP Festival 2011 strp.nl and in Hofgeismar, Germany at the Günter Herrmann Lehrmittelfabrik herrmann-lehrmittel.de
#timeless
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http://www.gabrielshalom.com/2013/04/scifi-is-dead/
Scifi is Dead
APRIL 12, 2013
scifi is dead
we’re tired of impossible visions of the distant future
we want graspable, tangible stories of the near future
people crave stories they can identify with
they want to see characters they can identify with
companies are fictions
they are VENTURE fictions
they come into existence because of their founders abilities to weave a convincing near-future fiction about themselves and their business viability
storytelling makes the economy
it makes products come into existence
kickstarter is a prototype of the future
the demand economy will not only require new forms of storytelling – it will enable us to envision the future we want to live in and manifest that future into reality.
we believe in the power of media to manifest reality
media as a collective vision of the subconscious will
the societal drive towards a better tomorrow
a vision of a yet-to-be experienced daydream that could become a reality if we all just decide we want it enough
science fiction is dead because it fetishizes the past visions of the future
we’re in 2013. The world hasn’t ended, there’s no monolith, and we haven’t been invaded by extra terrestrials.
GET OVER IT.
our generation is not going to be satisfied with the visions of the future from the 60s any longer
the clean white seamless Kubrick fantasy is over
we call for a cinema of resourcefulness
a cinema of hyperrealism which depicts a near-future reality based on a fundament of the known with a twist of the yet-to-be-but-likely-to-occur.
this new wave of emotion rises like an intuitive grasp at a different economy
an economy in which our ability to project our desires into reality is what has become seamless and perfected
not the plasticine-white-alabaster smoothness of a space golf lounge,
but rather the mental-psycho-spiritual-mediated continuum of thought-media-action-object
it won’t be long before we’ll be able to go to sleep
and wake up with a series of sculptures printed by our bedsides
artifacts extracted from our dreams and extruded in resin.
the near future is more subtle than you expect and more shocking than you think.
the disruption is a disruption of the fundaments of time and space.
the inner space
the inner space is the frontier where the most interesting things will be occurring
this will happen on a physical level with nanotechnology, a biological level too
but the arena we’re interested in on this level of the inner space
is the inner space of the mind
the mind is the frontier of the story
and the story our cultures will be telling in the near future will be the reality of the near future thereafter
it has always been the case that the human animal has a relationship with media
in which the externalization of the human thought into artifact
is the progenitor of the subsequent reality into which the human consciousness pours itself.
like the Salingeresque young girl pouring god into god.
