Network Detox (ND) comments on our connected lives, in play. On www.network-detox.com (launched 10 June 2012 at XMediaLab Sydney), visitors can learn about products from the future that our team currently develops, for example our flagship product, Net Offf®. Net Off is our powerful, quick-fix solution to the often painful symptoms of network withdrawal that may last for several days and can stand as a barrier to the treatment of abuse. Net Off eliminates the toxins accumulated in the body as a result of excessive Internet usage and comes in tablet form or a nasal spray-eye drops combo. A test batch of Net Off tablets was made available for participants of XMediaLab, for the very first time. In addition, during this session, Network check-ups were conducted, as well as ND Qigong-like exercises mimicking the turning off of, well, everything.

1. Network Detox:
Connected Futures In Play
X|Media|Lab: Global Media Ideas Conference
Sydney, 8 June 2012
Dr Steffen P Walz
Director, GEElab & GEElab Europe
Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow
www.geelab.rmit.edu.au

2. REMEMBER TO TAKE YOUR
NETWORK DETOX TABLETS!
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3. Let the healing begin: We start with our Qigong “Off”cercise
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4. “Eventually, everything connects.”
(Charles Eames, Architect)
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“It’s all about connecting the dots.”
(Ralph H. Baer, Videogame Inventor)
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5. A Dot Connector
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8. From: http://www.vibrant.com/cable-messes.php
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9. Do you remember how you spent time
before there was the Network?
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10. Past
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11. Present (Meet My Family & Best Friend)
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12. We believe we are connected …
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13. … but are we truly? These good looking people could connect in other ways.
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14. What We Really Do Online
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15. Argghhh
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16. OUR PRACTICE
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17. At RMIT University’s GEElab, we are
researching how game design thinking
and experimental entertainment can
positively affect and alter
architecture & urbanism, mobility,
popular media, storytelling,
engagement, other sciences
as well as society itself.
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18. Conceptual Design for Germany’s Biggest Online Loyalty Program
Client: Payback AG, Creative Director for
AGI Think Tank. Task Force. Agency GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany (1999)
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19. Mission: Make the Pop Music Business Participatory & a Trading Game
“Pay What You Want”
via own record label playbe records (2004)
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20. Mission: Turn Browsing Into a Gameful Experience
playbe’s playce: http://spw.playbe.com (2006)
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21. Mission: Make the Tourist Experience a Game
REXplorer, a location-based, gestural interaction rental service
for the city of Regensburg
ETH Zurich with partners RWTH Aachen etc. (2006–2008)
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22. Mission: Visualize City Data For Gameful Civic Participation
Via own start up sreee, client: U-Eco City, South Korea (2009-2010)
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23. Mission: Turn trending topics on Social Networks into ultracasual games
via own start-up sreee, Prototype (2010)
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24. Mission: Apply Gameful Design Methods and Technologies to
Increase Enjoyability of the Connected Car
PhD researcher Christopher M Berry (2011–2014)
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25. Games for Change AUS-NZ, 15-17 November 2012
hosted by RMIT’s GEElab & School of MediaComm
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26. NETWORK DETOX STRATEGIES
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27. Destroy?
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28. Hack?
ping
netstat
telnet
tracert
Portscanning
OS Fingerprinting
Portsurfing
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29. Shut down the Network?

30. Reprogram?
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31. Confuse?
From: http://www.howtogeek.com/57552/the-10-most-ridiculously-awesome-geeky-computer-pranks/
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32. Deflect?
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33. Disconnect?
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34. Live Spartan and solitary?
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35. Voluntary blocking?
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36. Limiting access?
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37. Rule-based?
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38. Consult
others?
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39. Gardening?

40. But then, there is an app for that!
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41. Read?
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42. But then there is a Network for that! (cf the City of Stuttgart’s library)
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43. Our Solution: Start up!
Officially launching today:
www.network-detox.com
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46. Our Practice is very different from most other
practices
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