*It’s pretty good stuff.
http://serialconsign.com/2010/12/keiichi-matsuda-interview
“Greg J. Smith: Although seemingly focusing on the wildest possibilities of augmented space, (((and who can’t like that?))) your thesis research is extremely invested in reconciling the tension between new media and customary notions of domesticity. You refer to Hilde Heynen’s assertion that “the traditional home is never completely absent from the modern home” and the ‘dislocation’ caused by media within domestic space, can you describe how these two ideas are central to your research?
“Keiichi Matsuda: You probably saw it in Domestic Robocop, but I enjoy the contrast of juxtaposing mind-blowing technology with the most everyday actions. Technology can change the way we do things very quickly, but is slower to impact on what we do.
“In looking at the effect of technology on the city, I became interested in electronomadics (as described by William Mitchell). Electronomads are augmented beings – cyborgs able to appropriate space for their own means. Every time you use your cellphone, tablet or laptop, you are participating in electronomadics…”
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