White Night
Surface
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We are designing surface. Surface multiplies, beyond any measure of necessity, beyond the laws of demand and supply, beyond reason. The multiplication of surface, formerly called information overload, is the new reality of design. Its unit of measurement is virtual.

Report on the ‘Forum on Quaero’: 29 and 30 September, 2007
At the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht (http://www.janvaneyck.nl)
Organized by Tsila Hassine, Vinca Kruk, Gon Zifroni, Daniel van der Velden

This is in no way a conclusive report. And it is far from an objective one at that; other reports on the Forum can be read
at Netzmedium: http://netzmedium.de/2007/10/02/questioning-quaero/
At Jodi Dean’s blog: http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2007/09/
At Open Search: http://www.open-search.net/Blog

Many thanks to everyone who participated in what we thought was a very exciting session last weekend in Maastricht, generously hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie. Pictures are online at http://www.metahaven.net under 'News' (feel free to use them), videos will soon be and next weekend we will post our - far from objective - report on what was discussed.
What we especially appreciated in the Forum was that questions which are normally handled by separated spheres, namely political, technical and aesthetical questions, became somehow united and could be discussed.

Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 September 2007
Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine
Jan van Eyck Academie: http://www.janvaneyck.nl

Florian Cramer, Jodi Dean, Frédéric Martel, Ingmar Weber, Isabelle Stengers, Bureau d’Études, Metahaven, Tsila Hassine, Open Search, Michael Zimmer, Richard Rogers, Florian Schneider, Maurits de Bruijn, Sabine Niederer, André Nusselder