all posts that involve reflection of ideas
The final symposium for Networked Media focused on protocol and the issues of technology and social etiquette. The conversation itself was pulled between theory based learning and application, making points on such references like TAFE, workplace exchanges and IP addresses. While Adrian discussed the readings and the connections he drew, there was a distinct shift […]
This week’s reading was full of jargon relative in understanding technology and the upside down system of the Internet. While the term protocol is not a new word, it’s adaption to computer behaviour has changed it’s conventions by broadening the behaviour of networks and systems. In essence, ‘protocols [now] refer specifically to standards governing the implementation […]
During this week’s symposium, there was an underlining concept to destroy the physical and reproduce meaning as meaning. With technology changing beneath our fingertips, the question lies between media and how we control, curate, produce and connect to it. While the focus in the conversation was fixed on databases and the aesthetics surrounding the stream, it was […]
Investing time into what you create is nothing unless you receive feedback or review. Work in progress is a behaviour and unmistaken sign of growth, I mean, even The World Wide Web was once a WIP by a computer jock. Presently, the symposium seemed to scatter across these ideas in planning our future assignment and the […]
Photographer and filmmaker Matthew Frost has teamed up with actress Kirsten Dunst to create a short film commenting on today’s selfie-obsessed culture. Bleached in golden rays and dreamy suburbia, Kirsten Dunst plays herself, meeting two selfie-obsessed individuals that could be loosely called fans. However, they don’t show interest in her, ask her any questions, or really interact with her […]
As a student of humanities hopeless with basic mathematical terms, the chaotic small world of Barabási was a text at times I had to read twice, even though it was not completely hard to measure. (If you’ve ever read The Fabric Of The Cosmos, you understand the ambitious way of applying and defogging theories to […]
Stepping back to earlier this week, the symposium led me to question a few things. Firstly, what does it truly mean for things to be connected? Does this connection effect the relationships they resonate? What is the relevance between yourself and writing? When there’s no middle, end or beginning, what matters most? What matters less? […]
Complex and invested, this week’s reading is rich in examples and theoretical questions surrounding systems and their components. Illustrating the vulnerability within these connections, Watts not only remarks about individual behaviour, but also on it’s impact to aggregate collective behaviour. Scientifically, the pervasive ideas of connection and consciousness have been fundamental game changers. ‘How vulnerable […]
Early in the semester I had researched Technological Determinism and discussed the interaction between culture and technology. Whilst it was a short five minute presentation for my class Histories and Technology, the introduction to this speech- I feel- is extremely relevant when setting up the discussion of Potts Murphie and his look on theoretical frameworks. So […]
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Questioning semantics, the realism of online privacy and the deliverance of content to create a presence, the symposium was a steady debate on the how, rather than the […]
