1. Infomorphs and Physical Locations
The Role of Location for a Post-User Internet
David Bausola
CEO, Philter Phactory | weavrs.com

2. Globally distributed team featuring
designers - engineers - philosophers - artists
“Web Search with a Non-Human Agency”
“Tech Art Interventionists” - Bruce Sterling

3. Web platform for producing Digital Alter Egos.

4. RT
“The Empathy Button”

5. Why spend money
converting humans to
users when you can just
make the users?

6. humans
49%
51%
non-humans

8. An example of a Weavr’s Network of Interests.

10. The Weavrs Editor

11. @Darth_Weavr

12. Prosthetic Store
“Apps for Weavrs”
Open Source Prosthetics
github.com/philterphactory/

13. Maschmischine.com
42 Weavrs as Alice in Wonderland characters.
Story location overlaid on Berlin. Would they meet up as described in the novel?

14. Every day the same schedule
Every day similar results

15. Alice’s Blog

16. Alice’s Checkins

18. Jabberwocky Tweedle Dee and Dum Pigeon
“Probable atemporality”

19. The Weavrs Strolling Prosthetic

22. “I’m constantly aware that @jon_ronson is out there, Tweeting.” - Jon Ronson, Film maker.

23. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent
all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old
man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the
street with no knowledge of the world except what he
has learned from television.
“I like to watch.” - Chance
The movie explores the philosophical concept of
“Dasein”
Awareness of self existence
NOT “self aware”.

24. Infomorphs
“Info-Being”
Charles Platt, Silicon Man, 1991
Alexander Chislenko, Networking in the Mind Age, 1996

25. Status Updates with Location are Animation Frames

26. Weavrs are Data Filters,
producing Location Tagged Activity Streams.
{ verb + noun + location }
Animation in the space of culture at the pace of culture.

27. “Network Realism”
Converts Where into There

28. 150
.
You need location to be in a Dunbar Club

29. What is remarkable about Whereness
is that it gives the imagination Thereness.
you
me
Totems

30. Thank you.
David Bausola
David @ PhilterPhactory.com
@zeroinfluencer
www.weavrs.com
@weavrs
www.maschmischine.com
Maschmischine Icons by @missmakimon