PechaKucha 20X20 presentation including additional slides for references/citations. Twenty slides answering the question, "Where is the ghost - or soul - in any given machine?" Originally presented 9/21/2018 in Silver Spring, Md at PechaKucha Silver Spring Vol 13.
NOTE: the slides have minimal text as most detail was communicated verbally, however the actual presentation with audio can be found on the PecahKucha Silver Spring page: https://www.pechakucha.org/cities/silver-spring/presentations/ghost-in-the-machine.
Ghost in the Machine: The Soul of Design Artifacts (PechaKucha Silver Spring Vol 13)
1. Ghost in the Machine
The Soul of Design Artifacts
Jeffrey ryan Pass / PechaKucha Silver Spring Vol 13 / 21.09.2018
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20. Remember: All is full of love. slides W/references at: slideshare.net/JeffreyRyanPasS
21. Thank You
Jeffrey Ryan Pass
Information Architect
jeffpass@gmail.com
@jeffpass
https://about.me/jeffpass
22. Detail of one of Chris Cunningham’s
“All Is Full of Love” Robots (photo
by Benjamin Sutton/Hyperallergic).
Retrieved 09.14.09.2018 from
https://hyperallergic.com/187375/
what-just-happened-the-bjork-
experience-at-moma/
Video still from Yves Klein’s
“Anthropometries” (1960).
Retrieved 03.09.2018 from:
https://artofbodymotion.wordpress
.com/2016/06/23/yves-kleins-
anthropometries-series/
Photograph of Museo di Storia
Naturale di Firenze, Zoologia "La
Specola", Florence, Italy. Daderot,
01.09.2006.
Retrieved 07.09.2018 from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Sp
ecola
Micro Anatomic Anatomy Mini Fig.
Jason Freeny. (2015.)
Retrieved 14.09.2018 from:
https://www.facebook.com/Gummi
Fetus/
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LEGO® original brick patent
technical drawings. G. K.
Christiansen, LEGO®. (1961.)
Retrieved 14.09.2018 from:
https://www.lego.com/en-
us/themes/lego-history
Possible combinations for 6 2X4
bricks from:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/921
27/how-many-combinations-are-
possible-using-6-lego-bricks
References (1/5)
23. Image: (still) The Ghost in the Shell
(animated film) (1995), Kodansha in
association with Bandai Visual,
Manga Entertainment, and
Production I.G.
Retrieved 12.09.2018 from:
https://cinemafaith.com/reviews/g
host-in-the-shell-1995/
Image: (detail) The Ghost in the
Shell (manga) (1989), Shirow
Masamune/Kodansha Ltd.
Retrieved 09.10.09.2018 from:
http://www.flaunt.com/content/gh
ost-in-the-shell
1967 VW Beetle Parts (advertising
image). Volkswagen (creative by
Doyle Dane Bernbach/DDB
Worldwide Communications Group,
Inc., photographer unknown, art
direction by Helmut Krone. (1967)
Retrieved 12.09.2018 from:
http://1967beetle.com/one-year-
only/
21-Window Deluxe Volkswagen
Type 2. RM Auctions/Sotheby’s.
(2014).
Retrieved 09.09.2018 from:
https://silodrome.com/volkswagen-
21-window-type-2/
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Car Talk quote: Episode #1142: Do
Cars Have Sours? (15/10/2011).
Retrieved 09.09.2018 from:
http://www.viaway.com/view/2466
0454/1142-do-cars-have-souls
References (2/5)
24. References (3/5)
Straight Chair and Straight-Leg
Gable. George Nakashima. (1946).
Retrieved 09.09.2018 from:
https://www.knoll.com/knollnewsd
etail/george-nakashima-studio
Conoid Bench. George Nakashima,
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(1977).
Retreived 09.09.2018 from:
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork
/conoid-bench-32461
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Mira Nakashima quote: from “The
Soul of A Tree: Inside George
Nakashima's New Hope home,
studio and creative compound.”
Retrieved 09.09.2018 from:
https://www.knoll.com/knollnewsd
etail/george-nakashima-studio
Set insurance photo of 1870’s C.F.
Martin Guitar. Andrew Cooper /
Weinstein Company. (2016).
Retrieved 07.09.2018 from:
http://www.mcall.com/entertainm
ent/mc-martin-guitar-destroyed-
hateful-eight-20160205-story.html
Tom Waits plays multiple pre-war
(Brazilian rosewood) Martin guitars
including this 30’s 0-17. (1992)
Retrieved 01.09.2018 from:
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/to
mwaits.htm
26. Image stills (from left to right, top
to bottom):
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Star Wars (1977)
Blade Runner (1982)
Jaws (1975)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Images retrieved from Google
Images between 03.09.2018 and
03.09.2018.
Dr. Strangelove: Plan R. Juan Carlos
Salas/500px. (2013). Photographed
at the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition.
Retrieved 13.09.2018 from:
https://500px.com/photo/3107301
9/dr-strangelove-plan-r-by-juan-
carlos-
salas?ctx_page=1&from=search&ct
x_type=photos&ctx_q=Plan+R
Image: Maman, Louise Bourgeois
(1999), Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
Retrieved 13.09.2018 from Mode
Arte: http://modearte.com/louis-
bourgeois/
Detail from All is Full of Love (1999),
Björk, Black Dog Films
Retrieved (09.12.09.2018) from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d2tBhaVEWGM
References (5/5)