http://tracer.tv grappling with everyday networks of spaces, places, people and things Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a talk I gave at the Digital Futures community arts seminar in May 2008 for Information and Cultural Exchange. http://tracer.tv/2008/12/09/where-things-are-at/ In 2006 I met a remarkable 90-year-old woman in Hong Kong. She was a Chinese herbalist who once worked in the Kowloon Walled City -- the infamous, anomalous zone of Hong Kong where no government actually ruled, with all the possibility and danger this might imply in such a context, ... http://tracer.tv/2008/03/03/stories-passing/ As a teenager, did you ever have a wild, wild crush on somebody, a person whom you put on a ridiculous pedestal and transformed into a perfect, fetishised object who occupied all your waking thoughts? And did you ever have a conversation with them that didn't add up? Perhaps they ... http://tracer.tv/2007/09/26/conspiracy-crush/ Security forces have attempted to transform Sydney's central business district into a ghost town for the APEC summit. (Original photo here.) http://tracer.tv/2007/09/08/disappear/