collective intelligence

“Who cares about glitter when you can care about politics?” Glitter is an old invention.  People have always had a fascination for shiny things. The word derives from the Old Norse word "glitra". The first known use the for the word “glitter” was in the 14th century. But before that already a shiny type of rock called mica was used to create shiny surfaces. This has been found from cave paintings from 40 000 to 10 000 BC. Ancient Egyptians used crushed-up-beetles as a glitter-like-substance. Modern-day glitter is made out of plastic.It was invented by accident by a guy named Henry Ruschmann. He was grinding up plastics and other materials from landfills, so basically first plastic glitter was made from trash. His company making glitter exists even today. Plastic glitter is made from cutting huge sheets of thin plastic covered with aluminium or other reflective material into smaller pieces. For color, the glitter is then covered with titanium dioxide, and t

TRAME DELL’INTELLETTO / REPAIR-A-THON 27-29 October from 10-18h Dimora OZ, Via Sant'Agostino 31 27 October from 19-20h Collective Intelligence - Garraffello Square Trame dell’Intelleto: Gandolfo Gabriele David, Daniele Di Luca, Barbara Cammarata + Analogique, Stefan Bressel, Loredana Grasso, Grazia Inserillo, Rosa Mundi. The Collective Intelligence group participates to Repair-a-thon Giuseppe Lomeo, Timo Tuhkanen, Egle Oddo, Johanna Fredriksson, Milla Martikainen, Marjatta Oja, Erika De Martino, Antti Ahonen, Alan Bulfin, Krisjanis Rijnieks, Saša Nemec, Jytte Hill, Ionas Amelung. For the closure of the Vie dei Tesori and the inauguration of the Vestino , Dimora Oz presents a selection of artists and works related to textiles. The medium of the fabric becomes a metaphor of aesthetics and design. Gandolfo Gabriele David, Barbara Cammarata + Analogique, Rosa Mundi and Stefan Bressel use the textile as a medium to develop directions and themes related to the aff

DREAM of sheep

A quote I picked up from a book or a person this autumn. Resting means different things to different people but it is good to know your own style and be articulate about your needs so others can respect them. I get easily stressed. I’m really bad in resting sometimes. I’m bad at articulating my needs on how I need to rest. So I am not the person to give advice on this. Or then I am because I am an “experienced expert”,  “kokemusasiantuntija” we would say in Finnish. Human’s ability to get too stressed reminds me of our bodily existence. We get too stressed like all other animals. It’s a physiological thing. Once I had to consciously learn to speak “dog” with my body when I had a new dog friend I wanted to communicate to. I went to take lessons about dog communication & education. One of the things I learned quite quickly was to interpret when he was stressed (yawning, dropping hair, dandruff from his back, lying down but being alert) and when he was relaxed (tail up, sle

These things have been in my mind during the past week. I started writing a working diary. I’ll post each note with a title as it’s own post. This is simple thoughts and associations in a random order.  The cloudy smush for something that does not have any form yet, the beginning. It gives them some quality and makes them lack some other qualities. But I am going to try this tone now and see what it brings. Maybe some of you knows to tell what context is this kind of approach related to and from what kind of  philosophical tradition it might stem from. But I’m just going to write like this now and see what happens. These might lower the fence for anyone to post. Or these might also be provocations for something.These might be something I'll just clean away later if they make the common space too smudgy. Do comment. On my way to Palermo: Thrilled in Amsterdam

Collective Stupidity as Peter Sloterdijk's Spheres Introduction This text is a speculation about the stupidity of community formation as presented by Sloterdijk in the first part of his book Bubbles Spheres: Microspherology I .[1] This text is not about modernism nor about post-modernism, nor about other projects or aeshtetics. It is a turnover of the idea that smart ideas lead to smart results and a provocation in which the term intelligence is merely substituted with the term stupidity in order to go through the thought process, to riff with the ideas, and to then examine the results at some later date. The text then starts with writing and slowly devolves into mere quotes that seem to make sense in the context. To understand the stupidity of the collective is essential when thinking about collective intelligence, this should be obvious to anyone working or even living actively in any group formed out of a majority of people. Rather than thinking that what Sloterdijk presen