At this year's Toronto Nuit Blanche, I will be exhibiting a WIRED vision at the Gladstone Hotel's Fly By Night: Into The Wild celebration. Full information on the venue and all the exhibiting artists is up at ScotiaBank's Nuit Blanche site.
For some background and an artist's statement, take a look at my initial exhibition which was part of the One Dozen Artists show at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts.
I am posting content from a WIRED vision each day leading up to the big night. Each issue's cover will be featured along side the visionary quote of the introduction pages. Here's the Facebook event as well.
And here's a mock-up of the exhibit as it will look in Room 205 at The Gladstone Hotel, including the LCD monitors and speakers.
Premier Issue 1.01 - Mar/Apr 1993
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology - is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing ... you, your family, your education, your neighborhood, your job, your government, your relation to "the others." And they're changing dramatically.
- Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, 1967
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology - is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing ... you, your family, your education, your neighborhood, your job, your government, your relation to "the others." And they're changing dramatically.
- Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, 1967
Issue 1.03 - Jul/Aug 1993
Life in cyberspace is more egalitarian than elitist, more decentralized than hierarchical ... it serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences ... We might think of life in cyberspace as shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted it: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.
- Mitchell Kapor
Life in cyberspace is more egalitarian than elitist, more decentralized than hierarchical ... it serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences ... We might think of life in cyberspace as shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted it: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.
- Mitchell Kapor
Issue 1.04 - Sep/Oct 1993
I want to discuss another dinosaur, one that may be on the road to extinction. I am referring to the American media ... And I use the term extinction literally. To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.
- Michael Crichton
I want to discuss another dinosaur, one that may be on the road to extinction. I am referring to the American media ... And I use the term extinction literally. To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.
- Michael Crichton
Issue 1.05 - Nov 1993
If you look at the marketplace, we go from mass distribution and mass markets to micro markets. If you look at family structure, we go from everybody in the nuclear family to a multiplicity of forms. And if you look at war, we're going to niche economies and niche warfare.
- Alvin Toffler
If you look at the marketplace, we go from mass distribution and mass markets to micro markets. If you look at family structure, we go from everybody in the nuclear family to a multiplicity of forms. And if you look at war, we're going to niche economies and niche warfare.
- Alvin Toffler
Issue 1.06 - Dec 1993
Immersive technology represents on the one hand, the grail at the end of the history of cinema, and on the other hand, the beacon that draws creative energies toward the culmination of computing ... In the world of immersion, authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.
- Brenda Laurel
Immersive technology represents on the one hand, the grail at the end of the history of cinema, and on the other hand, the beacon that draws creative energies toward the culmination of computing ... In the world of immersion, authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.
- Brenda Laurel
Issue 2.01 - Jan 1994
The very discoveries and inventions that will continue to transform medical practice will push it to be less about hardware, less about vast and powerful machines watched over by highly trained acolytes, and more about shared information. Health care will shift its center of gravity away from last-minute, traumatic, intensive, expensive, short-term hospital-centered care, and toward early-as-possible, preventive application of information in the community and the family.
- Joe Flower
The very discoveries and inventions that will continue to transform medical practice will push it to be less about hardware, less about vast and powerful machines watched over by highly trained acolytes, and more about shared information. Health care will shift its center of gravity away from last-minute, traumatic, intensive, expensive, short-term hospital-centered care, and toward early-as-possible, preventive application of information in the community and the family.
- Joe Flower
Issue 2.02 - Feb 1994
The fashionable, faux futurism predicts that this time will be different, that this time new media technology will guarantee the individual the upper hand over the advertiser. More likely, we'll see these new media renegotiate the power between individuals and advertisers ... Yesterday, we changed the channel; today, we hit the remote; tomorrow, we'll reprogram our agents/filters. We'll interact with advertising where we once only watched; we'll seek out advertising where we once avoided it.
- Michael Schrage
The fashionable, faux futurism predicts that this time will be different, that this time new media technology will guarantee the individual the upper hand over the advertiser. More likely, we'll see these new media renegotiate the power between individuals and advertisers ... Yesterday, we changed the channel; today, we hit the remote; tomorrow, we'll reprogram our agents/filters. We'll interact with advertising where we once only watched; we'll seek out advertising where we once avoided it.
- Michael Schrage
Issue 2.03 - Mar 1994
All the goods of the Information Age - all of the expressions once contained in books or film strips or records or newsletters - will exist either as pure thought or something very much like thought: voltage conditions darting around the Net at the speed of light, in conditions that one might behold in effect, as glowing pixels or transmitted sounds, but never touch or claim to "own" in the old sense of the word.
- John Perry Barlow
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
- Thomas Jefferson
All the goods of the Information Age - all of the expressions once contained in books or film strips or records or newsletters - will exist either as pure thought or something very much like thought: voltage conditions darting around the Net at the speed of light, in conditions that one might behold in effect, as glowing pixels or transmitted sounds, but never touch or claim to "own" in the old sense of the word.
- John Perry Barlow
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
- Thomas Jefferson
Issue 2.04 - Apr 1994
The prototype has moved from being a thing to being an idea. Hardware increasingly lives in software. Today more and more prototypes live inside computers. When it comes to "The Vision Thing," prototypes have grown to overshadow finished product. The challenge today is for actual products to live up to the prototypes.
- Phil Patton
The prototype has moved from being a thing to being an idea. Hardware increasingly lives in software. Today more and more prototypes live inside computers. When it comes to "The Vision Thing," prototypes have grown to overshadow finished product. The challenge today is for actual products to live up to the prototypes.
- Phil Patton
Issue 2.05 - May 1994
There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world ... The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lowered stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia*
- Jules Marshall
* the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.
There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world ... The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lowered stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia*
- Jules Marshall
* the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.
Issue 2.10 - Oct 1994
No ambition, however extravagant, no fantasy, however outlandish, can any longer be dismissed as crazy or impossible. This is the age when you can finally do it all ... Suddenly technology has given us power with which we can manipulate not only external reality - the physical world - but also, and much more portentously, ourselves. You can become whatever you want to be.
- Ed Regis, on Extropians
No ambition, however extravagant, no fantasy, however outlandish, can any longer be dismissed as crazy or impossible. This is the age when you can finally do it all ... Suddenly technology has given us power with which we can manipulate not only external reality - the physical world - but also, and much more portentously, ourselves. You can become whatever you want to be.
- Ed Regis, on Extropians
Issue 2.12 - Dec 1994
A generation ago, almost everyone shared common media. That universality has been shattered, probably for good. Information now splits along demographic, political and cultural fault lines ... We all look into our separate mirrors now, and mostly see ourselves looking back. What was universal in the post-war years has become the media of the middle class, the political and policy structure, the aging and increasingly self-righteous boomers.
- Jon Katz
A generation ago, almost everyone shared common media. That universality has been shattered, probably for good. Information now splits along demographic, political and cultural fault lines ... We all look into our separate mirrors now, and mostly see ourselves looking back. What was universal in the post-war years has become the media of the middle class, the political and policy structure, the aging and increasingly self-righteous boomers.
- Jon Katz
Issue 3.04 - Apr 1995
The struggle to control culture, with one ethical value system fighting to supplant another, is eternal. Elvis presided over the birth of a great new means of expression, one of three such flowerings in America since World War II. The second was television, from broadcast to cable to music videos. The third is the Net.
- Jon Katz
The struggle to control culture, with one ethical value system fighting to supplant another, is eternal. Elvis presided over the birth of a great new means of expression, one of three such flowerings in America since World War II. The second was television, from broadcast to cable to music videos. The third is the Net.
- Jon Katz
Issue 3.07 - Jul 1995
Not only does the body of an organism march to the orders of its genes, but so do the artifacts the organism builds or uses. (In this sense, the egg uses both a chicken and a nest to make another egg, and so the nest, too, is an evolutionary extension of the egg.) Human evolution is now inextricably bound up with technological evolution. Humankind is co-evolving with its artifacts, and the genes that can't cope with that new reality will not survive into future millennia.
- Michael Schrage
Not only does the body of an organism march to the orders of its genes, but so do the artifacts the organism builds or uses. (In this sense, the egg uses both a chicken and a nest to make another egg, and so the nest, too, is an evolutionary extension of the egg.) Human evolution is now inextricably bound up with technological evolution. Humankind is co-evolving with its artifacts, and the genes that can't cope with that new reality will not survive into future millennia.
- Michael Schrage
Issue 3.10 - Oct 1995
Today, people who retire are supported via wealth that is ultimately created by industry. As industry becomes more efficient, there will be more wealth, allowing people to retire earlier. When industry is totally automated and hyper-efficient, it will create so much wealth that retirement can begin at birth.
- Hans Moravec
Today, people who retire are supported via wealth that is ultimately created by industry. As industry becomes more efficient, there will be more wealth, allowing people to retire earlier. When industry is totally automated and hyper-efficient, it will create so much wealth that retirement can begin at birth.
- Hans Moravec
Issue 3.11 - Nov 1995
Two styles of people: guys and gals. Females, what? They caretake. They nurture. Men what? They squirt and move on. So, business start-ups - same thing. The entrepreneurs who run businesses? They're like women. Caretakers. Venture capitalists, though? Gigolos. Roosters. Seed capital. Get it?
- Po Bronson
Two styles of people: guys and gals. Females, what? They caretake. They nurture. Men what? They squirt and move on. So, business start-ups - same thing. The entrepreneurs who run businesses? They're like women. Caretakers. Venture capitalists, though? Gigolos. Roosters. Seed capital. Get it?
- Po Bronson
Issue 4.04 - Apr 1996
Is online sex like having an affair? Is it my business because I'm married to you? Or is it like you're reading pornography and it's none of my business? In our new questions about authenticity, we see the beginnings of a cultural conversation that's going to take 50 years.
- Sherry Turkle
Is online sex like having an affair? Is it my business because I'm married to you? Or is it like you're reading pornography and it's none of my business? In our new questions about authenticity, we see the beginnings of a cultural conversation that's going to take 50 years.
- Sherry Turkle
Issue 4.06 - Jun 1996
Old economic theories say we have to decide how to allocate scarce resources among alternative uses. New growth theory says ... Bullshit! We're in this world, it's got some objects, sure, but it's got these ideas, too, and all that stuff about scarcity and price systems is just wrong.
- Economist Paul Romer
Old economic theories say we have to decide how to allocate scarce resources among alternative uses. New growth theory says ... Bullshit! We're in this world, it's got some objects, sure, but it's got these ideas, too, and all that stuff about scarcity and price systems is just wrong.
- Economist Paul Romer
Issue 4.07 - Jul 1996
As digital communications flash through the most heavily fortified borders, so can children, for the first time reach past the suffocating boundaries of social convention, past their elders' rigid notions of what is good for them. Children will never be the same; nor will the rest of us.
- Jon Katz
As digital communications flash through the most heavily fortified borders, so can children, for the first time reach past the suffocating boundaries of social convention, past their elders' rigid notions of what is good for them. Children will never be the same; nor will the rest of us.
- Jon Katz
Issue 4.10 - Oct 1996
Money goes where it is wanted and stays where it is well treated. This annoys government to no end. Technology has overwhelmed public policy. The nation-state is not about to disappear. But the old concept of sovereignty - governmental acts that cannot be reviewed by an other authority - is no longer valid.
- Walter Wriston
Money goes where it is wanted and stays where it is well treated. This annoys government to no end. Technology has overwhelmed public policy. The nation-state is not about to disappear. But the old concept of sovereignty - governmental acts that cannot be reviewed by an other authority - is no longer valid.
- Walter Wriston
Issue 4.11 - Nov 1996
The Web Dream is what smart kids across America are dreaming. Here's a cheap and easy-to-use medium that lets anyone seize the attention of the planet ... It'll hardly cost a dime and you might get rich. Fuck waiting in line for your turn. Piss in the milk of the oligarchy. Take the money ... then run like hell.
- Joshua Quittner
The Web Dream is what smart kids across America are dreaming. Here's a cheap and easy-to-use medium that lets anyone seize the attention of the planet ... It'll hardly cost a dime and you might get rich. Fuck waiting in line for your turn. Piss in the milk of the oligarchy. Take the money ... then run like hell.
- Joshua Quittner
Issue 5.05 - May 1997
The Information Age implies generalship by the many, the decentralization of authority. This is highly inimical to traditional military strategy. Nation-states and their hierarchical administrations are extremely ill-suited to dealing with the very nimble networked opponents that confront us.
- John Arquilla
The Information Age implies generalship by the many, the decentralization of authority. This is highly inimical to traditional military strategy. Nation-states and their hierarchical administrations are extremely ill-suited to dealing with the very nimble networked opponents that confront us.
- John Arquilla
Issue 5.06 - Jun 1997
Cultural schizophrenia. The modern condition born of a disconnection between attitudes and behaviors, between the world as it is presented and the world as we intuit it to be. Cultural schizophrenia occurs whenever a society begins to reinvent its vision of how it will conduct affairs in the future.
- Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker
Cultural schizophrenia. The modern condition born of a disconnection between attitudes and behaviors, between the world as it is presented and the world as we intuit it to be. Cultural schizophrenia occurs whenever a society begins to reinvent its vision of how it will conduct affairs in the future.
- Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker
Issue 6.05 - May 1998
The paradox of violence in online worlds is that while it generates moral outrage, it also encourages players to band together into tightly knit groups of trusted comrades. These groups - tribes, clans, families, or guilds - are what online culture is really about.
- Amy Jo Kim
The paradox of violence in online worlds is that while it generates moral outrage, it also encourages players to band together into tightly knit groups of trusted comrades. These groups - tribes, clans, families, or guilds - are what online culture is really about.
- Amy Jo Kim
Issue 7.02 - Feb 1999
Audiences expand the mythologies of a creator's world. We succeed when we give them something worthy of their devotion.
- Matt Groening
Audiences expand the mythologies of a creator's world. We succeed when we give them something worthy of their devotion.
- Matt Groening
Issue 8.03 - Mar 2000
If the Department of Justice were going to pursue severe sanctions against Microsoft, Joel Klein needed the Valley to make some noise. Not subtle, clandestine, backstage support - but up-front, vocal, public support. The kind that shapes media coverage and editorial opinion; the kind that gets through to the man in the street; the kind that changes minds, and moves votes, in Congress. What he got instead was a thundering silence.
- John Heilemann
If the Department of Justice were going to pursue severe sanctions against Microsoft, Joel Klein needed the Valley to make some noise. Not subtle, clandestine, backstage support - but up-front, vocal, public support. The kind that shapes media coverage and editorial opinion; the kind that gets through to the man in the street; the kind that changes minds, and moves votes, in Congress. What he got instead was a thundering silence.
- John Heilemann
Issue 8.04 - Apr 2000
Biological species almost never survive encounters with superior competitors. - Hans Moravec
In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of
the machines. - George Dyson
I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. - Danny Hillis
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the
ethical issues. - Bill Joy
Biological species almost never survive encounters with superior competitors. - Hans Moravec
In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of
the machines. - George Dyson
I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. - Danny Hillis
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the
ethical issues. - Bill Joy
- do create
Issue 9.09 - Sep 2001
Whatever the Citizen Scientists learn, they put online: personal histories, blood samples, even their own genetic codes ... thousands of people sitting in front of their computers, trying to nudge answers out of technology before before time runs out. The internet has changed everything, even desperation.
- Sara Solovitch
Whatever the Citizen Scientists learn, they put online: personal histories, blood samples, even their own genetic codes ... thousands of people sitting in front of their computers, trying to nudge answers out of technology before before time runs out. The internet has changed everything, even desperation.
- Sara Solovitch
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