Who is Lev Manovich
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Unlecture thoughts to speculate
Video games can be considered an interactive narrative, however games are not about storytelling, you don’t win stories you read them. A text is anything that communicates meaning or has an intention. Hypertext could be a post cinematic writing practise,…
Rap, Hip-Hop and Hypertext?
Brian’s comparison in this weeks Unlecture was quite corny and really showed his age but made perfect sense. When Rap and Hip Hop first arrived Brian was confused and very doubtful of the new genre of music. He questioned it’s…
Going Futher with Hypertext Fiction
Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, a story was written in 1987 and is the first known hypertext fiction. Its’ a story about a boy named Peter, a recently divorced man who witnessed a car crash that may or may not have involved…
design is fashionable?
This idea has stuck with me since last weeks lecture. I’m not sure if Adrian meant that Design Fiction is a popular speculative process now days or whether we could actually wear technological designs … Anyway, since then my dreams…
Design Fiction: Artist
After all this talk about Design Fiction and considering what the world may need in the year 3000, I decided to go back in time and research a late artist that envisioned what today could look like. Albert Robida was…
My ‘’Unlecture’’ Brainwave
The third Unlecture provided me with a new outlook on education and independent learning. I now strongly believe … I am a reptile who must build my own knowledge and not wait for someone to fix my broken tyre. We…
How long till Star Trek is reality?
Joseph Dickerson-”Treknology” Joseph Dickerson thinks we will be living in a Star Trek reality sooner than we think. There are constant developments in ‘’treknology’’ and he takes a close look at up and coming technologies in the works that could…
Little boat Big ocean
Speculative writing! Week 1 Reading Networked Media= Boat Ocean = Ideas to explore It is a metaphor, it suggests that each student will conduct/venture/lead their own exploration. Too many ideas? Never too many. The boat is little but the ocean…