Alejandro Ortega Lozano

Micro-blogging: Towards Temporal Micro-economics

‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) See also complete analysis HERE Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by winning a...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 10/15/08 2

SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

See also the complete ‘SNS: Between Diversity & On-line Cultural Schizophrenia’ Reflexion Here ‘The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.’1 With these words Martha...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 10/05/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

Short presentations, few both clickable art visualizations and physical artistic prototypes from presenters, and conglomerated art projects without neither explicitly separating lines nor accessible explications for the few curious ones is the best way to describe the first impressions...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 09/26/08 2

‘TinEye’: Searching for the DifferAnce

‘Language depends on difference, as Saussure showed … the structure of distinctive propositions which make up its basic economy. Where Derrida breaks new ground… is in the extent to which ‘differ’ shades into ‘defer’ … the idea that meaning...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 09/22/08 3

13 Positions (Book review)

Also see the complete 13 Positions’ review here “Hi! This is the autonomous Opera Telephone of the City of Zurich. For your pleasure and entertainment, we have placed a bug in the Zurich Opera House. In a few seconds you...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 09/14/08 Comments Off