by prof. Derrick de Kerckhove (University of Toronto), presented at New Media Days, Katowice 2008, www.dninowychmediow.pl

1. Towards a Secondary sensoriality

3. Left/right biases

4. Literacy conditionning space orientation

5. The Medium is the Message Virtual means caught somewhere between the Objective and the Subjective See the virtual 3D image between mind and machine

6. For some people, it is easier with this stereogram…

7. “ I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it”

8. The story of art in 3 slides 1. The alphabetic abstraction  Sensory revolution Reconfigura-tion and specialization of the senses The birth of the artistic function The 9 muse

13. An early tendency towards providing the total surround

14. Quasi penetration of the screen

15. Immersed in the machine, a tactile environment

18. The “point-of-being” is electricity’s answer to the point-of-view imposed by literacy

19. The Reality of the Imaginary = the externalization of the mind on the screen

20. The « Objective Imaginary »

24. La dimension, l’aspect et le niveau d’interactivité de chaque site est fonction des conditions locales

26. The meaning of « trompe-l’œil »

27. … versus 3D The reversal of perspective The “end of theory” Multimedia: the recovery of the other senses into the image VR: wearing the image as an extension of the skin

28. Virtualization

29. Internet Zero (I0)

32. The body electric

33. Three cyborgs Steve Mann Stelarc Kevin Warwick

34. Steve Mann sends what his eyetap sees to the web…permanently

35. Whatever he is looking at goes on line for anyone to see

36. Stelarc connects his CNS to someone else’s via the www

37. Warwick implants sensors for contextual cues from the environment

38. Recent artistic experiments

39. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Relational Architecture

42. Tunnel sous l’Atlantique

43. Maurice Benayoun

45. Cosmopolis (Maurice Benayoun)

46. Cosmopolis (Maurice Benayoun)

48. Floatables of Usman Haque

49. Floatables (Usman Haque)

50. No man’s data

52. HOMEOPATHY

53. Homeopathic Theory Poison (vaccine) Instantaneous circulation in the global nervous system Provokes a defense reaction in the system

55. How do tags work?

56. hypertinence

58. © © Chip 40x40cm, particolare del Grande Muro di stelle

59. Muro di stelle, 2006 2metri x2 © ©

60. In the electric age, we wear all mankind as our skin

62. Collaborative Exploration: Consider These You 2 Examples Doppelgänger Merged Identity Medical IDs Avatar No Identity Lifecaster Digital Identity Ubiquidentity

63. And in a ‘global image economy’ … 92% of girls want to change at least one aspect of their bodies