Bruce Sterling - Videos
11/05/2010
Science-fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling talking about Stewart Brand’s thinking, nuclear energy, the Long Now Foundation, and the concept of “a guru’s guru” on Friday November 5, 2010 at the first Frontiers of Interaction Concert in Milano.
Length: 1:27:50
Bruce Sterling, noted critic, science fiction writer and net theorist, lecturing on historical narrative, futurism and the emergent network culture. He ponders the trans-temporal and trans-cultural effects of network culture in relation to cultural signifiers and rhizomatic subversions of postmodern culture, focusing on the collapse of historical narrative embedded in a disintegrating digital culture. He brings to light a philosophy of history that is evolving towards an atemporal condition of the emergent net culture, relegated to a dissipation of time-bound origins and identities. European Graduate School
Length: 0:06:52
We are in an en era of decay of re-purposing of residual structures, Where is the fun part? An exerpt of Sterling's keynote at transmediale 10 in Berlin, he looks at the prospects for creative emancipation in a world without time.
All the achievements of human creativity are dwarfed by what we still fail to comprehend. Sterling examines how it is essential to face the fact that access to information alone will not bring about beneficial effects in society. (in English with Italian translation)
Sterling attempts in his lecture to get away from words in order to focus on an atemporal sensibility. In his presentation he gives several examples from Da Vinci to Steampunk of his notion of atemporal objects which are able to exist across the epochs.
03/12/2009
Sterling speaks of the importance of studying and understanding the intellectual heritage of Web Art for media artists today. (sound is very bad) at toshare.it Festival, 2009
Length: 0:15:41
Sterling plays a reporter in his eulogy for Analog TV "the Death of Television". He revisits the early promises and expectations of television in a playful scripted interview. .
Length: 0:26:52
Sterling critiques the 'internet of things' conference help shortly before this speech, starting by simply reading snatches of presentation he had marked down there while attending. He explains how the shortness of the design cycles of digital technologies leads to enormous material and cultural waste.
09/16/2008
Sterling describing the computer of 2043 and the future of ubiquitous computing. Later he describes the conflict between the computer entertainment industry and the culture of play.
Sterling describes his concept of an Internet of things. He describes his cellphone as a primitive Spime and how Spimes may lead to our perceptions of objects to be a kind of printout from networked data,.
Length: 0:09:36
Sterling presents his observations on the italian city of Matera. On his guided tour he draws historical through lines of activities which have continued to the present day from the deepest history of the city, sharing his thoughts on absurdities of anthropology and tourism.
Length: 0:09:19
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and his wife Jasmina Tesanovic talk about their views on the OLPC project. He descibes the project as 'all political' underneath all the 'very cool' design aspects.
Length: 0:05:32
Sterling describes his approach to curating Share Turin 2009. He speaks about the cultural/historical context of the festival and the audience and the cross-pollination possible at such a festival
Sterling emphasizes the limited value of any well reasoned or researched prophesy and prediction, both the value people place in it (people just want to think what makes them feel good) and, consequently the value it may have in benefiting the world.
09/19/2007
Length: 0:07:29
Sterling develops his idea of SPIMES from an industrial design standpoint, and how SPIMES may relate to Web 3.0, if that will ever emerge.
Interview with Sterling about futurism and the prospects of the Internet, new media, publishing, and his observations on life in Belgrade
04/30/2007
Length: 0:49:08
Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling speaking at Google Tech Talks about the Internet of things and spimes, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchability' to even the most mundane of physical products, like car keys that could be located with Google Earth. Shaping Things, a book written by Bruce Sterling inspires designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and sustainability in a new ecology of artifacts.
03/26/2007
Length: 0:11:17
Sterling describes science fiction as the future not as speculated but as felt, putting flesh on ideas and trends and how he has chosen to be more active intervening in the issue of Climate Change.
Length: 0:10:40
Sterling critiques the general tendency to gravitate towards the most optimistic imagination of how the world will be transformed by technologies and how this leads to market-driven design which doesn't work. He goes on to describes the value of anthropology to Science Fiction writers.
03/17/2007
Bruce Sterling gives his usual end of SXSW rant about how pretty much everything sucks. How he packs the house like he does with such depressing topics who knows.
03/16/2007
Length: 0:08:15
Sterling brings the viewer on a guided tour of one of his favorite futurist cities: Belgrade.
03/08/2007
Length: 0:07:10
Sterling speaks about the political challenges of our age and explores the particular pleasures digital culture affords us
Length: 0:08:53
Sterling speaks about the corrosive effects of blogs on older forms of media, and explains why he isn't writing anymore on Wired and what's exactly "The Long Tail" (no nice words for Chris Anderson). in Italian and English
Length: 0:04:22
Sterling explains what a cyberpunk is. He goes on to advocate strongly for more general education about Climate Change.
03/06/2006
Length: 0:10:01
About 10 minutes of Sterling's speech from the etech conference in San Diego where he speaks about The Internet of Things and the nature of Web 2.0...
Sterling reflects on how ubiquitous computing promises a possible soltution to one of the most pressing problems facing the world today : sustainability. He talk then explores the prospects for RFID technology, and SPIME's, objects that can be tracked through space and time.