Working with Cati on a fashion statement (more soon!)… we opened a private blog to correspond, and keep images, files and links together. Ideas fuse.

Some of our sketches… premises of our investigation:

The exchange is fructuous. Among the discoveries, much about wearable… and… the essay by Mark Poster: Digitally Local Communications: Technologies and Space | Prepared for Conference on “The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections” | June 10-12, Budapest…

“As we shift scenes to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, our urbanite is laden with the gear of information machinery: a beeper, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, an mp3 player or Walkman, a palmtop computer. In these postmodern geographies or virtual geographies one is simultaneously in several places, with perhaps a different identity in each location, seeing what appears before one in the street, but listening to a distant, telephonic voice or engaged in online gaming with participants from all over the globe. Space is now at once nearby and distant, local and global, but also multiple and fragmented, morphing the urban body not only into diverse shapes but also into several incarnations. Spaces, identities and information machines now combine into new forms of practice that seriously shift the cultural landscape away from its familiar modern parameters. These locations are neither non-places nor nowheres but actual spaces of mobile communications. And who is to say if the remote intimacy they afford is not equal or superior to its proximate forms.”