{"id":2163,"date":"2014-02-24T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/24\/bruce-sterling-transmediale-2014-afterglow\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:52","slug":"bruce-sterling-transmediale-2014-afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/24\/bruce-sterling-transmediale-2014-afterglow\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Sterling \/ transmediale 2014 afterglow Opening Ceremony (by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dacKWLGZklM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">transmediale<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps not Sterling\u2019s greatest performance ever but he makes some interesting points towards the end about the need to argue with the status quo by building alternatives. And that the value of these alternatives can be in their rickety nature. A few choice quotes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s time to build alternative computational systems which reflect our own ethics and values. We can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the tech art world we have to break with our long habit of living off other people\u2019s crumbs. We gotta stop sleeping in the rich guy\u2019s used car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that commercial computation has become so slick and seductive. People forget that technology and technology art are hard labour. It\u2019s a tough scrabble when you\u2019re really on the electronic fronteer. And if it\u2019s nothing but decadent pointing and clicking. How do you know if you\u2019re any damn good? You\u2019re good if you\u2019re building something that people can use with some sense of decency.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Sterling \/ transmediale 2014 afterglow Opening Ceremony (by transmediale) Perhaps not Sterling\u2019s greatest performance ever but he makes some interesting points towards the end about the need to argue with the status quo by building alternatives. And that the value of these alternatives can be in their rickety nature. A few choice quotes: &#8220;It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/24\/bruce-sterling-transmediale-2014-afterglow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}