Abstract

Progressive privatization of modern individual has led to the new definitions of privatized public space. Social independence has led to communicational gaps which have promoted current TCIs, as well as dreams of mobility associated to them. The impact of those machines in social life is proportional to the effect of social life on machines.

• Jorge Luis Marzo (ES) is independent curator and writer. Usually works on issues about culture, politics, art and technology. I’ve been recently working (for the last 3 years) on a show (Indivisuals) and on a book about relationships between portable technologies,  mobility, individualism and the creation/suppresion of social spaces (Me, Mycell and I: Technology, Mobility and Social Life). In next Fall, a project on these matters will be developed at the University Pompeu Fabra along with engineers and designers in order to research on special features of portability. In January Arteleku Center in San Sebastian will host a special symposium on these issues carried out by sociologists, artists, philosophers and technology investigators. Last curatorial works are: Tour-isms (2004), Heart of Darkness (2003), In the side of TV (2003).

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