Summary
Frederic Kaplan, Nicolas Nova: The Culture of Internet Mimes
We are all part of the global pantomime community, drawn into the unstoppable hyper(re)production of reduced messages, recontextualized fragments and clips of our simulated media reality. Millions of people create, modify and share mimes - that very simple digital form, which is a postmodernist parasite on existing media materials: from frames from mainstream movies and comics, to works of high art and classical painting. As such, mimes represent one of the most represented and shared content and help us understand the digital culture that produces them as something we collectively create, not something that happens to us.
Frederic Kaplan is a French engineer dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence. In his research projects, he combines digitization of archives, information modeling and museographic design.
He is one of the creators of the fascinating project "Time Plane", which recreates the history and evolution of cities through digitization and cross-linking.
Nicolas Nova is a French-Swiss ethnographer and design researcher, socio-anthropologist and curator. His work lies at the intersection of ethnography, interaction design and future research, with a particular interest in ubiquitous mobile technologies and new media cultural practices. He is interested in observing and documenting digital and new media practices, as well as creating design fiction, i.e. speculatively designed objects that explore potential experiences from the near future.
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