Rebecca Blum

Futurist musings + analog soul.

[Josh Silverman @jhsilverman]

✨ Attention Bay Area adjuncts, and/or People Who’d Like to Teach! 💡

My #IxD grad program @CACollegeofArts is hiring people to teach courses in design research, visual design, interaction design foundations, communication and language — and much more! https://t.co/UG15drjSJ5

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@katiereidwrites Thanks for reaching out! Exciting to hear Medium has a new science and tech publication. Sent you a DM.

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

Excited to join these amazing panelists and talk about AI + design on June 25th @sfdesignweek https://t.co/HAAJwVTSmT

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@rishisb @ixdasf Thanks, great to have you there!

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

Loved seeing a talk about death come to life, visually. Thanks @ashding2

[Ash Ding 🌻🐛 @ashding2]

Posting my sketchnotes from the incredible #SFInteraction19 conference. Thank you @ixdasf and the phenomenal speakers for making this event possible

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

Excited to join this crew on April 5th for #ixd19 #SFinteraction19 !

[IxDA San Francisco @ixdasf]

We are super excited to announce Interaction19 //redux in San Francisco on April 5th! Come to meet amazing speakers & learn about designing for AI, life & eternity! Early bird tickets are selling quickly, hurry up @ixda #ixd19 @ixdconf https://t.co/hVGgoEiuRY #SFinteraction19

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@oliveheart74 @OrderGoodDeath @DeathAfternoon I’m with you — will take texting over phone calls with our digital ghosts

[Kathy Kortes-Miller @Kathykm]

New to me too! "Necrotech" kinda love it! @BlumBecca #EndWell18

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@nohasarit Thanks for capturing that !

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@OrderGoodDeath @DeathAfternoon Can’t wait to listen to it!

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

So fun to talk about #necrotech at @endwell18 ...don’t tell my mom she had a cameo

[Maggie Rogers @magthenomad]

.@blumbecca is teaching us how far we have already come with #tech beyond the grave - somewhere between creepy and comforting - holograms of loved ones, creating bots of people who have died that you can text with, virtual versions of yourself for after you die #EndWell18

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

Fun to see so many people laughing while talking about death at @frogdesign #sfdesignweek (I'm still working on that real-time tweeting) https://t.co/XhSPZOESoF

[Daniel McCallum @danthemccallum]

@BlumBecca captivated a packed SF Design Week event last night in our new @frogdesign SF studio with a perspective on designing for death and legacy in a digital age https://t.co/yFy7N8EQfY #sfdesignweek

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@mdhanus But mostly absorbed by your last question -- I would say yes! #uncannydeathvalley gets less uncanny for a non-human: 1) (while Mori focused on appearance) communication deepens the uncanniness 2) we don't imagine ourselves in a petBot in the same way as, say, a Romanbot.

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@mdhanus Dedicated VR space for pet visits & dedicated house spot for AR pet are both very intriguing.

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@archer_dan Thanks! If you have any quick thoughts on what you found most useful/intriguing, or what you wanted to hear more about, let me know! Always trying to iterate

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@Pablo_Ferrari Thanks! My talk's not up yet, but #sxsw18 will be hosting audio recordings on Soundcloud: https://t.co/QAjkJsIvDy

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@amelson @amelson Thanks again for the insightful write-up - mind linking to me directly in your article? (LinkedIn & Twitter would be great. Trying to be better about the tech savvy side of things! https://t.co/YORrl1DINT )

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

Thanks @amelson for so quickly and lucidly capturing my #SXSW18 #digitaldeath talk! Great to have you there! #frogSXSW #necrotech https://t.co/Ilh5fJXd5y

[Alan Melson @amelson]

More from SXSW, this time an important conversation with @blumbecca about a difficult subject: What happens to our digital presence after we die? #sxsw18 https://t.co/6JUfW9ctjg

[Rebecca Blum @BlumBecca]

@julie_yost Thank you for helping make it happen! Loved getting to share thoughts on #necrotech #digitaldeath. And excited that you share my love of the Voyager !