Nicolas and myself spent the evening at the Radio Suisse Romande for "Devine qui vient dîner, a one hour discussion around Nicolas' latest book on Geolocalised medias ("Les médias géolocalisés") where we ended up explaining much about our work at Lift.

You can listen to the show (in French) on rsr.ch, in streaming and mp3.

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.

Lift was featured in this week's Atelier Numérique on BFM radio, an occasion to introduce Lift to French media, discuss the programme of the Marseille conference, and spotlight one of the projects that will be presented during the experience: Interac Wearing.

Listen to full show (the Lift part happens around 30 minutes)

Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post by music producer and veteran Lifter Fabian Kalter about the recent Hadopi law voted in France.

Hello dear french,
I saw my french familiy today, they told me some law is being passed right now making it possible to
"take the internet away" from illegal downloaders. for what greater good again? Oh yes, copyright.
Damn, thats harsh. and idiotic. And it will probably happen in Germany, too.

Yet again some old men in legislature having their old man friends in media whine over their soupe au poisson that sales keep dropping, evil donwloaders destroy art and their income.
Yet again some old men having no idea whatsoever about the present (and future) state of things.

So, I wont get into details here, its another discussion, but Id like to inspire you thinking about what you can do for the future ( of art, media, monetization of copyrights etc.) not only what the future can do for you.

-make it clear that there is no alternative to embracing new technologies. ever.
-make it clear that old men who have no idea about things need to listen or they fall. always.
-annoy the hell out of every single part of the chain of monetization that annoys both the consumers and the artists, dont stop until it breaks.

simple action plans, make up more and make them work!

1.
-find out when the law actually is applicable.
-get a socialist party member of your parliament to open up a bank account (preferably at the bank that handles the money from the "le chtis" production firm - for media attention.
-get all the french internet users to listen, should be an easy task at this moment.
-get them to download bitttorents the hell out of piratebay for the week before the law is applicable
-make everybody wire 10cents for each illegal download to the aforementioned bank-account, preferrably one payment for each download
-make the sum public
-have it all withdrawn the day the law is applicable.

2.
-find out french artists single ( or album) (needs to be a physical release) that has chart potential
(means that it will be ordered by big cd retails)
-contact him (or dont)
-get him in the boat (or dont)
-get plenty of people to buy the release in big cd retails - have to be enough to make the thing enter the charts
(easy thing in a summer week slow in releases )
-dont unseal the purchased disks
-return in LESS than a WEEKS time
-buy another copy
-repeat.

3.
...

4.
....

have fun!

Transmedia Storytelling Unveiled

The television audience is changing from merely connected to participative. As Rupert Murdoch said, people want to control their media, not be controlled by it. As Henry Jenkins (MIT) said : “in the erea of convergence, consumers become hunters and gatherers pulling info from multiple sources to form a new synthesis”

Nicoletta Lacobacci from European Broadcasting Union announces a paradigm shift : a movie isn’t a story anymore, it is a situation, a plateform regardless of the media. We, the audience, are the story.
Participarory TV, Crossor transmedia is a story that is not replicated onto multiple plateform but that is concieved to do so. It is pervasive. The users do it themseves, therefore it reaches them more deeply.

Korean media are starting to cover Lift Asia, and I was the happy guest of Talk2man on monday morning (two hours after I landed from a 15 hours trip, I'm still awake it's not too bad ;). Check the video below.

Today we had coverage on 매일경제 (don't ask me to translate ;) and I hear the Korean blogosphere is buzzing with stories about Lift!

PS: and thanks to gut4u who blogged me and a hamburger tonight ;)

Our newest partner is Korea's fourth largest daily newspaper, the Hankyoreh! Hankyoreh is a special organization with strong values and an original ownership system with 62,000 citizen shareholders, none having more than 1 percent of the shares.

The Hankyoreh is a progressive newspaper, decisively committed to journalistic freedom, democracy, peaceful coexistence and national reconciliation between South and North Korea, which were divided by external forces after World War II. The Hankyoreh is unrelenting but fair in coverage. It does not negate the philosophy of the free market economy, individual liberty and personal freedom. But it accepts that the more detrimental effects of an unbridled market economy should be regulated by various means.

Its distinct feature is its unique ownership. Unlike most traditional Korean newspapers, under the ownership of a family or business conglomerate, the Hankyoreh is owned by about 62,000 shareholders who joined the original drive for the paper's inception. They are from all walks of life in Korea, ranging from teachers to university students to housewives. Even though their backgrounds are different, they have one value in common: a desire for a genuinely independent newspaper and for full-fledged democracy in Korea.

The Hankyoreh has a Korean and an English website.

It was interesting to hear Kevin Warwick predict that in thirty years we will all have chips implanted in our brains and will be able to communicate by thought.

We think digital marketing is exciting now, but what’s it going to be like when we can send ideas and thoughts directly into people’s minds?

During a recent interview (in French) for Couleur3, the chair I was sitting on broke while I was speaking. I almost died ;) and these 5-6 stress kilos I take just before the event made themselves felt a bit too much.

The whole interview is archived here, the incident happens one minute into the first file, and yes it was broadcasted to a national audience Saturday morning ;)

And if you speak French, here is a special show that Nouvo did on LIFT08, featuring interviews of LIFT08 speakers Heewon Kim, Kevin Warwick and Rafi Haladjian.