being (no)body

My name is Sean Yo and I work in the IT Services department at a mid-size Canadian University.  I am also in the process of completing my Masters of Arts in English; my research focus is digital media with specific work on the web, blogs, wiki and synthetic worlds being pursued.

Being (no) body is my personal website where I collect my thoughts, discoveries and ideas about digital culture and technology.  I am very interested in web design, and through that, interested in information architecture, design and typography, and visual representation of information.  Web standards, accessibility and development that works are all issues that make me excited, happy, furious and frustrated.  Often at the same time.

This website is really about being in the digital landscape.  I don’t mean the, now antiquiated and quaint, notion of Gibson’s cyberspace.  I mean the way its actually happening: the ubiquitous web and the digital divide, free music and DRM, the creative commons, open source and software patents, the Internet on your phone, unlimited storage and anything I want on demand - anywhere I want it.  In the wilds of the digital landscape, we’re all just a point in space for the Internet to launch packets at.  We are free from how we look and sound and even smell.  Which also means we have to find a new way to create context - because there often isn’t any.

Out here, you don’t need a body…you just have to be.