Kieran Nolan

Here are the slides for my paper 'The Real Virtual Living', presented at the Posthumanism strand of ISEA 2009 at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

I'm presenting a paper at the ISEA 2009 Conference (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) in Belfast this August. It's under the 'Posthumanism' category and called 'The Real Virtual Living'. Basically in it I'm examining what people thought the 'cyberfuture' would be, how it actually turned out and how that future vision has inspired creative work in different digital and electronic mediums, both in cyberspace and meatspace :)

Also as part of ISEA 2009 I'm running a workshop on 'Hacking Toys Into Tangible Interfaces' at Dundalk IT. We'll be building unique game control gizmos by adding usb connections to cheap electronic toys. The workshop is an introduction to physical computing, covering some basic interaction design theory along with practical hardware hacking techniques. There's more on the workshop and everything else that's happening as part of the conference at isea2009.org.

Back in December 2007 ABC launched 'Find 815', the second alternate realty game promoting Emmy award winning TV series 'Lost'. In the first interactive part of the experience a laptop screen was shown full of fictitious email addresses. One of these was a hotmail address, it turned out it wasn't registered... so I registered it :) For the next few days I documented reactions to the minor ripple in the expanded Lost universe that is Zeke Klotho Freundlich. So anyways here's a link to a podcast talking about it, the recording also features some words from the creators of the 'Adopt a Space Monkey' / 'Aftermath 08' ARG.

I hope the story is interesting, apologies to anyone involved with making the ARG that was inconvenienced by my actions... it was all in the name of research, honest! ;) Namaste!