DOCU is a documentary film format produced by Nefula to explore Curious Rituals, New Normals and Possible Futures through the faces and the opinions of artists, researchers, designers, scientists, thinkers and activists from all over the World. In the first episode of DOCU #00 you will enjoy some extracts from the interviews given by our…
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Listen to Adrian Cheok talk about transmitting touch, taste and smell over the Internet in the latest episode of History Repeating Itself. Episode 21 – Sex Machines in Our History Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second installment of…
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A new book by City’s Professor of Pervasive Computing, Professor Adrian Cheok, probes the ubiquitous and exponential impact of the internet and digital connectedness on modern society. Friday, 22nd May, 2015 • by John Stevenson Professor Cheok, who is also the Director of the Imagineering Institute in Iskandar, Malaysia, has worked extensively and with…
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Keynote Speech at ARea 15 : Everysense Everywhere Communication 11 – 12 June, Turku, Finland This talk outlines new facilities that are arising in the hyperconnected internet era within human media spaces. This allows new embodied interaction between humans, species, and computation both socially and physically, with the aim of novel interactive communication and entertainment. Humans…
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In the second episode of FutureFest podcast, which asks how far we’ll go to get our kicks in the future, Paul Dolan, author of Happiness By Design, explores what happiness is and how to find it, Professor Adrian Cheok looks at the future of thrill-seeking as we start to augment all five of our senses…
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