Yseul Byeon discussed the format of a Korean television program called ‘Finding my Dispersed Family’. The producer wanted to create an apolitical tv show which led to accidental organic growth of a family search campaign. The program led to a government managed database now including DNA matches.

Theodore Gordon author of ‘The Composers Black Box’ discussed electronic music as a new medium for composers in the 1960s. He showed experiments with electronic equipment using magnetic tape and reflected on theories about the medium as the message @shothisttech.bsky.social

💿 Aline Volynskaya and Fred Pailler research the history of the CD(-ROMS) @c2dh.uni.lu supervised by @valeriesch.bsky.social. They consider multimedia as a Gesamtkunstwerk and the CD as a medium to possess and hold multimedia whereby it functions as a (passive) container. Fascinating evolution!

Elizabeth Petrick’s history of AI agents used HCI to research the 1990s Apple spinoff General Magic developing internet smart agents for devices such as the Sony Magic Link using a desktop metaphor as the interface to a network of communication where agents interacted independently with other agents

@aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social talks about the conceptualisation of AI winters or lack thereof as “boom-and-bust cycles” that are “perspective dependent” @shothisttech.bsky.social

“I blink therefore I am” - @tamikothiel.bsky.social on the Thinking Machine’s Connection Machine’s translucent panels showing the status lights next to the chips inside the machine. @shothisttech.bsky.social

So happy to join the conference @shothisttech.bsky.social again organised at the @c2dh.uni.lu, my alma mater. First session by @tamikothiel.bsky.social.