User:JohnnyB

To introduce myself:

From my very early years, I felt dedicated to arts/philosophy and natural sciences as well and decided to combine both - inspired by a german writer who worked as physician :)

Later my interest in natural sciences turned out to be computer science (at Hamburg University focussing on artificial Intelligence).

The following 30 years I did a lot of interesting jobs, just to mention:

• multi-project and
• product management (consultancy as well)

for various kinds of command and control systems in areas like public safety and traffic.

My interests in arts:

• mostly the active reception (details to those being interested :)
• though did poetry as well from the 90ies, published under another name just to let it stay for itself.

Now bringing the perspectives (art/philosophy and computer science) together - by building tools to support creativity, by providing a handy virtual taggable whiteboard based on P2P communication, implemented in Squeak Smalltalk, running on various platforms (Linux, Mac OS, Windows) and for end this year a Seaside web-application is scheduled. Current status is alpha test.

The work is in the context of what Jason Ohler meant by :
Literacy means being able to consume and produce the media forms of the day. The default media form has shifted from the essay to the multimedia collage.