Published on 30 Oct 2013

audio from youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6WRXtKMSQ

Lighthouse's digital culture conference, Improving Reality, returned for a third year this September. Talks included tours through worlds that artists are growing rather than making, critical revelations of the systems and infrastructures that shape our world, and narratives of radical alternative futures. 

Paul is going to talk about infrastructure, about what we mean (or think we mean) when we say that word, and about why infrastructure is not so much invisible as illegible: omnipresent, ubiquitous, but almost always Someone Else's Problem. He will compare the Someone Else's Problem problem to the "hypnosis of normality" which Anab Jain (designer at Superflux) suggests design fiction is intended to dispel. Paul proposes that the tools of design fiction and critical theory can, and should, be turned outward upon the complex, interdependent and surprisingly fragile metasystems on which our lived reality is utterly dependent.

Improving Reality 2013 - Paul Graham Raven

Shapenote song 'Miser' composed by Dan MacDonald (Spitzer Space Telescope), 2023

Spitzer Space Telescope - Miser

Springhill Singers (Stroud) and the George Choir (Newnham-on-Severn) sing a Georgian spiritual song at the Bristol Choirs Convention, Sunday 22 April 2018. Both choirs are led by Elle Holliday.

Springhill Singers and George Choir - Lli meievo

shapenote fanatic, but also Occitan a capella folk, weird ambient noise and general pop cheese are good

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