critical digital : Adam Greenfield

Be critical about the digital :) Yesterday Adam Greenfield gave a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design! Folks from MIT came as well, so we had a rather good turn out!

This was my text of introduction:
I have met Adam Greenfield at the Digital Civilization Forum 2005; the Digital Civilization Forum was “dedicated to the future of the digital revolution and designed to evaluate its social, cultural, and economic impacts”; it was held in Bordeaux, one of the best French wine regions. Adam had done a lot of travel, worked internationally and, was then coming from conferences in Tokyo and Berlin… Yet, what intrigued me most about him was his complete understanding of the structure, Big Brother and Co, and his very situationistic ability to subvert it. And, while I was sipping my wine, it occurred to me that I had never understood the word cyberpunk before (So I guess now, I am very proud to have a cyberpunk friend)… And while I was still sipping my wine, he had to leave to New York City to finish his book: EVERYWARE: the Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing that he will now be introducing to you. Please welcome Adam Greenfield!

The event was sponsored by Critical Digital: Critical Digital fosters a dialogue about digital media, digital technology and design. Challenging contemporary discourse of digitality through symposiums, competitions, publications and conferences, the intention of Critical Digital is to offer a forum of critique of current trends and inquiry within contemporary digital culture.