Topic:
Rewiring history: Digital culture is rewriting history every day. While books are being published, bloggers are typing their own accounts in public forums across the digital landscapes. How will these multiple viewpoints change the way history is written? How will the overabundance of digital information be recorded? Is there any way to record it all, or can history now be deleted with one keystroke? Will the lack of physical records erase the past? Whose voices will be remembered in the new digital order? Whose voices are being heard the loudest right now?
Speaker Bio:
 Gabe Sawhney is a hacker working at the edges of code and culture. As co-creator of [murmur], he develops the platform, tools and infrastructure for the project. He is the founder of WirelessToronto, a community wireless network setting up free-to-use hotspots in public and semi-public spaces in the city, each featuring its own "hyper-local" community portal. Gabe has collaborated on several other locative media, video and kinetic interactive installation projects. With an academic background in architecture, film and semiotics, Gabe balances an understanding of technology with a passionate interest in visual design, usability and information architecture. Proficient in a range of wireless and locative technologies, his heart rests with the simple, the intuitive and the cheap. |
