Here's the wikipedia link to 'mapback'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapback

Here's Norman's maps....

Here's the info on the "Migrations of the Mind" show at the Getty-- 

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/migrations_mind/index.html

Celia Pearce has been a games designer, as well as a theme-park ride designer.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.electronicbookreview.com/ebressays/firstperson/tamagotchi/simsone.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/tamagotchi&usg=__Tc4d-ZJ0NpXh2FmPN1tklxBb6D8=&h=300&w=400&sz=44&hl=en&start=282&um=1&tbnid=UjL1l-nSXhwRaM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522norman%2Bklein%2522%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D280%26um%3D1

Norman

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/?s=avatar+machine

It's essentially a full bodysuit that is fitted with a wide angled camera on the back which provides a direct video feed into the eyes of the wearer, creating the illusion of being a character in a third person video game of reality.

-David

More

Found artifacts from the future

check out this project- 'Post-Gravity Art'

http://eyebeam.org/events/postgravity-art-syntapiens

Stanislaw Lem

Hey,

here´s a link to the first few pages of one of my favourite books when it comes to paralles worlds (Stanislaw Lem "The Futurological Congress"),

it touches a lot of issues we have talked about like utopia-dystopia, bleeding through and clearly a very new use of medication

http://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-futurological-congress/66-a-look-inside-the-futurological-congress

AT&T YOU WILL

AT&T predicted the future in 1993 pretty well.

check out this 'conceptual' essay from Afterall about place and space-

http://www.afterall.org/online/place.and.space.theories.of.topographic.narratives

It looks at the idea of topographical narratives.

There is a parallel world tension at work- here's some excerpts from the essay-

"There is a tension between our desire to see the whole, from above, and to engage with individual sections of the city at ground level. "

"...memories need to be presented topographically and can be explained by key psycho-geographical premises: firstly, that the urban landscape impacts upon one's thought and behaviour at any given point - 'in different places we are different people'..."

Extra-Terrestrial Presense on Earth

The idea of invisible cultures genetically manipulating and experimenting with mankind's ancient past and present. Secret religions and societies that are still faithful to their reptilian overlords. The secret war on humanity that takes place just outside our perception. It could be complete imagination, or a most mysterious parallel world.

p.s.

i can type that up if need be--

sorry about the poor quality.

goodnight everyone

p.p.s.

here is someone living in a parallel world

check out this fetish;

masking>>>>

would-be wiki response 2222 norman's photo responses [1st week]

hey doods,

sarah merkle

10/19/09

A camera people can wear as a pendant to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives will be available on the market next year from Vicon in Oxford.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-whole-life.html

-David

Scientists Give Flies False Memories
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015123552.htm

What does this mean for the world of parallel worlds?

David

In contrast to Ferris' utopian skyscrapers - check out the work of Usman Haq-

http://www.haque.co.uk/

-Tom

More Brain 2 Brain communication (sort of )

http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2009/oct/09_135.shtml

-Eliza

Here's Patrick's Roundabout Performance Score:

Everyone should know and visit ubuweb-

http://ubu.com/

In regards to our investigations into systems of narratives and 

the 'architecture' of parallel worlds- check these videos out by 

Ryan Trecartin- 

http://ubu.com/film/trecartin_kcorea.html

Here's a blurb by Wayne Koestenbaum --

"Ryan Trecartin's videos depict a vertiginous world I'm barely stable enough to describe. Watching them, I face the identity-flux of Internet existence: surfing-as-dwelling. Images evaporate, bleed, spill, metamorphose, and explode. Through frenetic pacing, rapid cuts, and destabilizing overlaps between representational planes (3-D turns into 2-D and then into 5-D), Trecartin violently repositions our chakras. Digitally virtuoso, his work excites me but also causes stomach cramps. I'm somatizing.But I'm also trying to concentrate." (ArtfortumSummer 2009).

Here's a couple more interesting tidbits for the blog:  

Brain-to-brain communication has been achieved for the first time... 

 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=3D/news/news_single.html?id%= 3D11230 

 ...and a little on the connectivity of our personal "parallel worlds" of wake and sleep: 

 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427291.000-are-you-asleep-exploring= -the-minds-twilight-zone.html?full=3Dtrue  

-David 

This may have some use for us in the class. Can't be sure... the examples are somewhat hypntoic, esp. the second example. Are these parallel worlds trying to collide, but merely flying across each other in morphs, like simultaneous possession?

http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=422

-Norman

This is a "companion" link for the Hugh Everett film-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_worlds

I am interested in the idea of the past and the future as infinite parallel worlds.  If we were the “never realised utopia” for a parallel world that realised our “never realised utopia”. 

-Mette

Check out this documentary about Mark Oliver Everett "E" from the Eels and his dad Hugh Everett-

The doc is called Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZVPWQrLNU

I came across this site on Tesla- it fits in with our discussion next week on Electricity.

http://www.teslascience.org/archive/archive.htm

Here is the new book chosen for our class (based on today's discussion-

"Ubik" by Phillip K. Dick

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Ubik+by+Philip+K.+Dick&x=0&y=0

This book is in addition to "Freud in Coney Island" by Norman.

http://www.amazon.com/Freud-Coney-Island-Other-Tales/dp/0975592467/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254282159&sr=8-1

Here is the article about the MIT photos that the kids from MIT took with their camera phone device.  You can scroll through the photos at the website--they are pretty stunning:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-328198

This one might also be of interest to you, a search for "artificial life" online is being launched (apparently a recent study showed that the internet is showing 'early signs of some form of consciousness') and people with home computers are being asked to join in the research:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news.html

Enjoy!

David Braun

Our discussion on Sept. 22nd was infinitely more free ranging than the Wells story. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11870/11870-8.txt

If we're concentrating on the early twentieth century, etc., let's examine some of the novels from the era that are on-line; and decide if any of them offer a unique look into the Edwardian era directly before science fiction emerges, 1926 onward.

We could also include "Herland ," and Mizora, if I can find them. Also, 

essays that you liked, i.e. Christiansen. Or an E.M. Forster 

sci fi short story...

Warmest regards,

Norman