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Diagram 1: every medium uses distinct time-space configurations
description, argument
It is like organizing a party. The infrastructure has to be there, one can put a lot of care into extra ingredients like food, an ...
methodology, collective history, question
The staging of 'networked' performances was especially useful because fundamental issues could be explored in short periods of time. ...
description, general history
As a concept, presence does not only have philosophical, biological, psychological and technological dimensions. It also affects ...
Rop Gonggrijp, reporting about this session, cites a contribution from Mexico to this debate, in which a comparison was made to the ...
argument, collective history
One thing that did not take place at the GHP was a videoconference between Paradiso and Siggraph in Washington and some people in San ...
concept, argument, theory
The concept of media schemata is crucial for research into the domain of designing presence in environments where technology plays a ...
description, argument, general history
The first group of surveillance and identification technologies that I will consider is concerned with the monitoring of physical ...
While the network was down, Lee Felsenstein gave his keynote speech about the computer as a tool for democracy, emphasizing the quality ...
The 'edit group' was located in a dressing room next to the server room and had regular problems posting its work on the GHP net. The ...
proposal, argument, conclusion
In design trajectories the formulation of design requirements is a crucial phase. In the design requirements the formulation takes place ...
The culture and tradition of Paradiso guarantee a quality and a certain edge. As a producer I would use the fact that Paradiso is ...
Before analysing the case studies I was inclined to think that we, as human beings, were dealing with multiple presences that each have ...
In the Wau-Pengo debate Pengo argued that the difference between intelligence and commercial enterprise was not that great. The story of ...
description, personal history, collective history, question
A last crucial influence that I will discuss in my approach and my understanding of the research question "How to design presence ...
description, argument, parresia
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When one needs to act for survival one has ...
description, methodology, subjective, key-informants, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
Using the text as the laboratory one does need to find cues for validity though. While writing I have focused on creating inner validity ...
Before describing the cases I will first sketch the context in which they were conceived. Each case study is what I will call a ...
description, methodology, collective history
When creating a networked event, one is also designing time. Dramatic events change our sense of time. A minute of pain or a minute of a ...
In the Netherlands in 2006 during the national elections, all voters were supposed to cast their vote by computer. Hackers, among them ...
methodology, specific, theory
The study "Presence and the Design of Trust" wants to explore the influence of technology on the social structures that evolve ...
Physical clashes between intention and realization involve all levels of consciousness. In mediated presence these are not necessarily ...
The notion of 'social interface' was elaborated upon at Performing Arts Labs (UK) in 1994. Performing Arts Labs (PAL) had invited about ...
description, methodology, collective history
Military research into presence has to be mentioned here first, even though I do not intend to elaborate upon it. That would require ...
The orchestration of 'global' time lines is a very hard to conceive issue (Achterhuis 2003), Especially when bio-rhythm's, which can not ...
When actors have conversations about 'what to do' and 'how to do it', these also include the 'what would be good to do' and this is a ...
description, argument, subjective, collective history
This picture-phone connection was not documented in the proceedings, nor was it announced in the programme. It did not crop up in any of ...
theory, question
In the performing arts the "Unity of Time, Place and Action", which is attributed to Aristotle even though he did not actually ...
description, citation, argument, general history
Riva, Waterworth and Waterworth were inspired by Damasio in their proposal for a deeper understanding of Presence. After having studied ...
specific, general history
This study aims to contribute to design as research from the perspective of the social sciences. In 1993 the graphical interface to the ...
Diagram 2: In one communication trajectory information and communication pass through different media spaces
description, methodology, personal history, collective history
The way a networked event, which happens in the public domain, is evaluated is very different to how a scientific experiment is ...
description, concept, argument, theory
YUTPA provides a conscious description of the Time, Space, Action and You configuration of a certain product or process, in which ...
definition, specific
The word 'trust' in the title of the dissertation points to the qualitative standards for the settings of social interaction I intend to ...
In the afternoon, while Paradiso was filled with hackers having a great time, the edit group and some other people gathered to draw up ...
concept, argument, conclusion
The fact that I called this section trustworthiness instead of just trust implies an interaction. Trust is not a given, it is something ...
concept, argument, theory
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and technology are deeply interwoven, is ...
description, citation, argument, general history
Digital behaviour is also monitored. By gathering and analysing server information the behaviour and the actions of online identities ...
In his account of these demonstrations Rop Gonggrijp reported that the amazing feature of these networks is that people, who are ...
The morning was supposed to be taken up with an in depth talk by Professor Hamelink, Professor Boafo and their students about the ...
proposal, argument, theory
Every YUTPA possesses possibilities for action and distinct possibilities for feedback that designers can use. Also, an action in one ...
description, collective history, general history
Paradiso is a former church in the centre of Amsterdam, which was squatted in 1968 note 82 . Since the early days music and debate from ...
Through mediating presence one can reach out to another human being in different time/space configurations, which a meeting in natural ...
description, methodology, specific
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he addressed the old Greek idea of Parresia for ...
description, argument, theory
Another element in thinking about natural presence in modern life is elaborated upon by Donna Haraway. She argues that technologies have ...
description, methodology, key-informants, conclusion, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
It has been suggested by Latour that the use of exquisite language will trigger a more eloquent use of the text laboratory as a ...
The two events are well documented in the sense that the proceedings were made available based on the audio material (Riemens 1989, ...
description, concept, argument
When designing a party, an event, or an application simple questions become hugely important: how to enter, how to identify, how to ...
Another example of a need to think different about the use of technology was posed to me by Heleen Riper, who was co-producer of the ...
definition, methodology, specific
This is an exploratory case study in which two networked events that took place in Amsterdam in 1989 and 1990 will be analysed. A ...
description, argument, collective history
In automation and transaction technologies a series of predefined actions has to be executed to allow a certain person to do something. ...
proposal, argument
The fact that experiences change children’s physical well–being has been agreed on in child psychology and in pedagogy for several ...
Each of the three days had a theme. The first day was "To byte or not to byte", about the relationship between man and machine ...
description, collective history
The formal programme was orchestrated in the large auditorium at Paradiso. Debates, supported by presentations on the big screen were ...
concept, argument, conclusion, theory
Presence, I argue, is one of the major determinants in the negotiation of trust and truth. Because of the development of technology we ...
description, collective history, general history
The GHP and the 0+Ball were two of the first events in a range of gatherings, and an inspiration to networks that still exist today like ...
Natural presence is distinct and grounds ethical behaviour in one's own, as well as other people's, survival. Mediated presence can ...
description, argument, collective history, general history, key-informants
Because I was curious to find out what I had actually witnessed I did some research via the Internet in the spring of 2006 and found ...
description, question
In 1999 I started working for the University of Professional Education in Amsterdam and through this institution I was involved in the ...
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and whether he will attack me or not. I have to ...
In order to address the previously formulated intentions this study has to be an exploratory study, since a theory about the social ...
description, collective history, techno-biography
The 0+Network itself and all the communication and information it facilitated does not exist anymore. Only some printed emails and ...
Diagram 3: What is communicated in which way via which medium, and how these influence each other, is often unclear.
description, collective history
To create good infrastructures is an art in itself. It requires a lot of technical insights about technology, finance and the behaviour ...
concept, argument, theory
Processes of purification and mediation occur in every YUTPA because all YUTPA's also function in the context of one another. In his ...
proposal, methodology, specific
While conducting the research I found that I needed to make trust operational from the pragmatic perspective of individual human beings. ...
At four o'clock that afternoon we received a telegram announcing that all telephone lines in Paradiso would be shut down, because we had ...
description, argument, subjective, collective history
Once the programme had been drawn up, we had to reach out for our audience. It is a question of finding the right tone in the right ...
description, concept
Among the crowds that characterize the many urban environments we distinguish 'the mass' and 'people we know'. We perceive the presence ...
description, argument
Internet facilitates the storage and exchange of text, images, sound, music, film, radio and live broadcasts. With over one billion ...
In the afternoon several workshops took place about how to make an independent computer network, about viruses and viral networks, about ...
description, argument, collective history, key-informants
The first day was "To byte or not to byte", about the relationship between man and machine . An animation of Max Headroom ...
proposal, argument, theory
The claim for the global outreach of science and technology is criticized by Donna Haraway in her plea for 'situated knowledge': "I ...
description, concept, proposal, methodology, collective history
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between space and place in the variety of ...
Through witnessing each other, in mediated and in natural presence, people construct shared realities. Witnessing in natural presence ...
description, methodology, personal history, key-informants, theory
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the centre of attention in a study. But in ...
concept, argument, general history, theory
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the work of Haraway, and others like Judith ...