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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:54:08 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>CyberStage Archives</title><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:12:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright CyberStage Communications.</copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com)</generator><item><title>Tough choices, eh? Dalton, are you listening?</title><category>Democracy</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:30:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/25/tough-choices-eh-dalton-are-you-listening.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10904488</guid><description><![CDATA[Governments which choose to actively consult the public on issues ranging from budget to policy decisions need to realize a few things. The first is that if you ask ordinary citizens for their opinion, they're going to give it to you, loud and clear. The second is that you may get more feedback than you bargained for. The third is this: restrict the discussion to your peril.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10904488.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Mama, This Ain't Utopia After All - Or What Coretext Means to Me</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Coretext</category><category>Coretext</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:39:35 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/24/mama-this-aint-utopia-after-all-or-what-coretext-means-to-me.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10904182</guid><description><![CDATA[This was written as an introduction to Coretext (2001-2002), an online journal created by Garnet Hertz and myself. Coretext was about the linkages and tensions between art, electronic culture and the world in which it exists.

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The classical images, circa 1920, of what the 21st century was supposed to be like -- this anachronistic nostalgia for the future -- would never have stood up to scrutiny, and those of us born in the latter half of the 20th century knew this. We knew that the images that came from The Jetsons or Arthur C. Clarke were more fun than prediction, more commentary than strategy.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10904182.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>You Too Can Be Part of the Emergency Crew - Michelle Teran's Art: Finding Connection in Disconnected Space</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Coretext</category><category>Coretext</category><category>Michelle Teran</category><category>Performance Art</category><category>art</category><category>performance</category><category>technology</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:36:17 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/24/you-too-can-be-part-of-the-emergency-crew-michelle-terans-ar.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10904164</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the much touted truisms of the Internet is that through it we are enabled to become better connected to other people in distant places. A person in one country can talk to another far away about as easily as they could with a person next door. This, the theory goes, helps the human race to view itself as being part of a larger global community in which borders dissolve and people connect based on something closer to who they really are and what they really need. At a conference some years ago, I heard a very popular Internet guru (who will remain nameless) that in cyberspace no child would ever go hungry because the cry of that child would always be heard. In any case, it is apparent that the ease, convenience and speed of communication has been the driving force behind the net's rapid development over the last ten years.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10904164.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Aesthetics of Technical Difficulty</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Coretext</category><category>Coretext</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/24/the-aesthetics-of-technical-difficulty.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10904146</guid><description><![CDATA[If there can be three things said of the characteristics of electronic art regardless of genre, they might be these:

    Electronic art is influenced by the limitations of technology
    Technical difficulties play a role in the very aesthetics of electronic art
    Artists working in electronic art are as affected by the aesthetics of failure as they are by their own concepts.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10904146.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Equal Time: Jaron Lanier Talks Back</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Jaron Lanier</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>VR</category><category>virtual reality</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/equal-time-jaron-lanier-talks-back.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891527</guid><description><![CDATA[Jaron Lanier -- best known in pop-culture as the man who coined the term, "virtual reality" -- created the very first hardware and software with VPL Inc., the company he founded in San Fransisco, California. He is responsible for taking first-person computer simulation outside the walls of NASA and bringing it into the hands of regular people and artists. After being fired by his own board of directors in 1993, Lanier has since relocated to New York City where he now teaches, talks about the direction of virtual reality, and plays music.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891527.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Post Symbolic Mind Control</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Jaron Lanier</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>VR</category><category>virtual reality</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:12:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/post-symbolic-mind-control.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891429</guid><description><![CDATA[Jaron Lanier is working on a computer language for virtual reality (VR) which, he projects, will allow for a "new form of communication on the same level as speaking and writing." He dubs this "post-symbolic communication," and deems that it will allow us to exchange "experiences" the same way we currently exchange spoken and written testaments.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891429.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Cyberfeminist at Large: Nancy Paterson Raises Her Skirt</title><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/cyberfeminist-at-large-nancy-paterson-raises-her-skirt.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891386</guid><description><![CDATA[Nancy Paterson is quoting Northrop Frye:"People walk backwards into the future facing the past."

It's clear she deeply admires the late University of Toronto professor who became something of a legend in Canadian culture. At U of T in the late 1960s and '70s, Frye became to literature what Marshall McLuhan became to media, and left a permanent impression on those who were his students, including Paterson. "I was in first year university when I was a student of Frye's. I was going to be either a thug or a scholar. When he started to talk, I thought, 'This guy's cool, I want to listen to this guy.' He gave us great poetry and art and literature."]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891386.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Char Davies: VR Through Osmosis</title><category>Char Davies</category><category>VR</category><category>art</category><category>technology</category><category>virtual reality</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:58:01 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/char-davies-vr-through-osmosis.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891344</guid><description><![CDATA[At SoftImage in Montreal, the reception area in the corporate headquarters boasts a long spiral staircase which majestically takes visitors from the ground floor to the upper reaches of the offices. There, on the upper floor of the building, where one can get a clear view of the Montreal skyline, sits the various 230 employees working on their next project: programmers, marketers, artists -- and one very content black Tibetan Mastiff puppy.
"That's Mystic," says Char Davies, director of visual research, as she scruffs him behind the ear. "He's our mascot. He reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously."]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891344.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Kevin Kelly Out of Control</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Kevin Kelly</category><category>Out of Control</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>Scott Taylor</category><category>VR</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/kevin-kelly-out-of-control.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891288</guid><description><![CDATA[Kevin Kelly, Executive Editor of WIRED, is a would-be god who wishes we all would be gods, and has written a book about "godhood" for our instruction. Out of Control: The Rise of the Neobiological Civilization (Addison-Wesley, 1994), which has just been re-issued in paperback. Its often contentious argument is nothing more and nothing less than that we may now take as much apparant advantage from being out of control as we once did from being in control -- both of which may strike one as presumptuous, especially since our form of "control" is seen in the rise of technology toward "cybernetic holism."]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891288.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Multimedia Child: Buffy Sainte-Marie</title><category>Art and technology theory</category><category>Buffy Sainte-Marie</category><category>Soraya Peerbaye</category><dc:creator>Mark Jones</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:44:22 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/2011/3/23/multimedia-child-buffy-sainte-marie.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">840391:9868948:10891220</guid><description><![CDATA[Buffy Sainte-Marie's Self-Portrait is an imposing image. "A photo was imported into my computer and I played with it," she explains simply in her notes. "It is a headshot where I was wearing a lightweight veil; black hair, blackened background; and streaks of very interesting computer colours in some feathers." In fact, you can barely distinguish her hair from the granite-black background: her stern features seem to emerge like some ghostly vapour, her eyes, staring intensely out, apparently belong not to a person but to a shadow. The feathers are brilliantly rainbow-coloured: pure and vivid, they dance at her lips like Pan's pipes. The juxtaposition of the commanding eyes and the joyful colours of the feathers is startling. How is one to read this woman through her self-portrait?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bornyesterday.ca/cyberstage-archives/rss-comments-entry-10891220.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>