Timo is posting photos from ISEA here. There are some photos at Flickr too.

My camera’s ill but uploading a few phone pics to Flickr I noticed there are other people posting photos from here as well. This is the keynote I’m in right now. Erkki Huhtamo is talking about the history of mobile media, taking […]

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an excellent story-teller. He’s giving a keynote on “The Remains of Tomorrows Past: Speculations on the Antiquity of New Media Practice in South Asia”, and he’s telling us about how the Indian telegraph developed, bringing out the histories of […]

Yesterday was spent in transit, mostly, on the late ferry back from Tallinn. That meant I missed some great-sounding keynotes here in Helsinki, but that I’m rested and ready for two more days of heavy conferencing. Helsinki is excellent. Packed with people, […]

Most conferences are only three days long. Today is day four of ISEA and there are days and days left. I’m in a caf?©, regenerating the energy I’ll need to keep at it till Sunday. I think I’m not meeting a lot […]

As she delicately slipped nuggets of deep-fried brain into her mouth Julie explained Bell’s Theorem to me, how a photon can be two places at the same time, or perhaps it’s not but that’s the only way we can conceptualise its breaches […]

ISEA has done a wonderful job of finding women keynote speakers: there are many to look forward to. Joanna Berzowska is speaking now. Berzowska is an expert on wearable technology and as the first speaker for the wearable theme of ISEA she’s […]

I don’t think anyone is blogging at ISEA except me and the Grandtextauto lads, who will no doubt be writing thorough trip reports now that we’ve arrived at a stable wireless net connection. [Update: and Even Westvang] There must be other bloggers […]

I’m at ISEA, attending a sea.nce. The boat rocks almost as gently strongly as the waves in the pool in the middle of the bar. Laptops are connected to find answers to our questions from the collective consciousness. There were two fortunes […]

I’ve been looking at Chinese blogs (1, 2, 3) and wondering whether they would look as utterly bloggish if they weren’t using western blogging tools and their templates. Often the timestamps and other paratexts are in English, anyway. Still, it’s fascinating just […]