Sean Ripple http://seanripple.net Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:47:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Descriptions of Photos That Were Not Taken http://seanripple.net/descriptions-of-photos-that-were-not-taken/ http://seanripple.net/descriptions-of-photos-that-were-not-taken/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:58:23 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=2547 - 1/21/12 Communication Research Professor Sue Currey standing in front of chalk board on which a circle with the words “practice”, “research”, and “theory” are written. Her right hand was raised above her head.

- 1/24/12 Art History I Instructor Chelsey Moore’s hand against a slide projection of spotted horses from the Pech Merle cave painting. Moore’s hand took on some of the projection of one of the spotted horses.

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One-liners, exaggerations, sculpture, performance, audio, concealment, video, Jay-Z, photos, frozen food, .25 cents, found notes, Oppenheimer, understatement, gummy worms, mirror, Rear Window, management theory, fake street scene installation, neuroticism, iPhone, future of an illusion, serious offenses, JW Cartwright, stolen keys, cognitive distortions, flickr, email addresses, belts, cds, minimization, etc…

Ongoing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/relationaltransgressions11/

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SYNOPSIS
Human intelligence has been outpaced by the artificial intelligence it has created. For the most part, the relationship between humans and conscious ambient technology is not a contentious one. It is most like the relationship between domesticated dogs and humans.

This superior form of intelligence has created a thorium-powered intra-environment that is ideal for engineered biological life to flourish. True Earth has begun to function like an exoskeleton for the techno-human condition. The synthetic biological infrastructural technology that is used throughout the intra-environment is significantly less harmful to the origin environment than previous human-driven iterations of technologized existence had been.

Biotechnology/nanotechnology has augmented and extended the lives of humans, but initially, access to and the ability to integrate these technologies into one’s biological makeup and one’s family’s biological makeup was extremely limited, which led to a sharp divide between elitist sensibilities and more pedestrian ones. Eventually, this divide softened, but it continues to play out socially in a sublimated fashion.

Social media’s influence on humanity has increased… one is able to access another’s sub socio-behavioral make-up without the person’s knowledge, which has led to an expanded and compulsive form of morality for a great majority of the human population. But it has also led to a more defiant and ruthless counter-culture of hackers who, using the electrical activity generated from their collective cortical neurons, disrupt the intra-environmental harmony that has been cultivated by artificial intelligence. This culture does not congregate in physical space and they delocate/de-identify in virtual space (to remain anonymous by conscious ambient artificial intelligence and humans) by inhabiting randomized modes of thought/being for various lengths of time.
(12/20/2011) Nathan - Visit the dumpster behind Austin Vacuum at 5242 N Lamar Blvd (Corner Of North Loop & N. Lamar) to become acquainted. Who is Nathan? How does he factor into the overall plot. What is his perspective on the current state of things within the narrative? Is he from the past? Is he someone we can trust? Is he a terrible character? (12/23/2011) Es - A hacker and privacy advocate. His story starts at 2100 East Side Dr. (12/30/11) Sara - Sexually compulsive woman who wishes to hone her sexual energy intellectually so that she may become a great inventor. Seeks out tutoring in mathematics, sciences, and computer programming. Posts suggestive requests for tutors on college message boards, joins forums, etc... Her story starts at St. Edward's University - 3001 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78704 - with a flyer left in the John Brooks Williams Natural Sciences Center requesting tutorial services in chemistry, physics, biological design, programming, and higher level mathematics. (1/6/12) Sara talks about the moment she realized that she was simply living on the surface of things. This portion of the story is located on a rubber cord attached to a tree at 200 W. Annie St. 1 Block West of the 1800 Block of South Congress. (02/04/2012) Es asks a person who crosses his path a question. (02/04/2012) Nathan asks a a group of strangers a question.

]]> http://seanripple.net/terminated-by-an-empty-line/feed/ 0 Cookies http://seanripple.net/cookies/ http://seanripple.net/cookies/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:01:17 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=2273 Informed by web viewing tracking technology that among other things monitors individual viewing patterns so that companies may advertise their products in a more personalized manner to people while they spend time online , I will leave products that I’ve seen various individuals consume in the past to tempt those people to consume the products again.

Intern (Coca-Cola)

Wife (Yogurt)

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]]> http://seanripple.net/scripting/feed/ 0 Encrypted Correspondences http://seanripple.net/encrypted-correspondences/ http://seanripple.net/encrypted-correspondences/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:34:28 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=2182 I’ve recently been working on a project where I create ciphers so that I can send encrypted correspondences to various friends and acquaintances. The ciphers all use different informational contexts as source material to communicate in a scrambled fashion. The first cipher I created uses the Scarborough-Phillips Library at St. Edward’s University and has set the tone for subsequent ciphers. For that cipher, I selected 26 books from the library to correspond to the 26 letters of the English alphabet. With my ciphers, the idea is that the books, pop songs and soft copy books available on Google books will become the lexicon from which you pull words to communicate something silly or serious, in your own voice or not.

Scarborough-Phillips Library Cipher 1
JOSHUA SAUNDERS
ZACH TUCKER
Google Books Cipher 1
PAUL CAVAZOS
Pop Songs Cipher 1
JAMIE PANZER
REBECCA MARINO
TRAVIS KEEL
…might be good cipher
Issue #168

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]]> http://seanripple.net/cross-reference/feed/ 0 Words After Words http://seanripple.net/words-upon-words/ http://seanripple.net/words-upon-words/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:58:48 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=2101 Physical Space as Packaging – Reimagining the Cultural Content Storefront

Privacy – A Lunch Break From One’s Public Identity

]]> http://seanripple.net/words-upon-words/feed/ 0 Bookmarks http://seanripple.net/bookmarks/ http://seanripple.net/bookmarks/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:08:50 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=2090 "You Are a Pattern" - left inside The Code Book by Simon Singh shelved in Technology section @ Barnes and Noble (10000 Research Blvd #158 78759) "Singularity Myth" - left inside The Singularity is Near by Raymond Kurzweil shelved in the Technology section @ Barnes and Noble (10000 Research Blvd #158 78759) "Privacy is a Lunch Break From One's Socially Determined Public Identity" - left inside Virtual Justice by Greg Kastowka shelved in the Technology section @ Barnes and Noble (10000 Research Blvd #158 78759) "Is the Expectation That One Behave in the Same Manner Both Publicly and Privately Totalitarian?" - left inside Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper shelved in the Philosophy section @ Barnes and Noble (10000 Research Blvd #158 78759) "Data Mining the Archive" - left inside The Futurism of the Instant by Paul Virilio shelved in the Philosophy section @ Barnes and Noble (10000 Research Blvd #158 78759) "Talking 'Bout No Generation" left inside Strawberry's Account @ Uncommon Objects (1512 S. Congress Ave. 78704) "Your Consumption Pattern is Out of Style" left inside Waverly Novel # 48 @ Uncommon Objects (1512 S. Congress Ave. 78704) "This is Not a Bomb" - left inside a Thomas Paul journal shelved under some shirts @ the women's clothing store Anthropologie in the Domain (11410 Century Oaks Terrace Austin, TX 78758) ]]> http://seanripple.net/bookmarks/feed/ 0 Consumer Feedback http://seanripple.net/consumer-feedback/ http://seanripple.net/consumer-feedback/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:46:40 +0000 admin http://seanripple.net/?p=1980 Nurture My Nature My Consumption Pattern is Out of Style I Can't Believe I Wanted This Give Me My Mine Profits Over Progress Same Sweatshop Different Consumer Base Laid Off But Still Feeding Needed But Not Known The Answer Hides in the Question ]]> http://seanripple.net/consumer-feedback/feed/ 0