The academic delay
Ive just finished reading Alois’s article about interactive documentary and he makes some excellent points about the interval between independent frontiers and academic research. Ali noticed in the article ‘Interactive Documentary; Setting the field‘ by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi that there…
Unsymposium 0.9 You say goodbye, I say Hello.
The last lecture of the semester. Bummer. If Adrian wanted to get me addicted to the work of Jonathon Harris, Well done, because that guy is amazing. Great art is that which when you see it seems so obvious. Every…
10 points about dreams of technology
The line (if there ever was any..) between technology digital technology and ourselves will blur as digital devices become more advanced The networks between different technologies is like a nervous system technology will become even more immersive, not just in…
Unsymposium 0.8, geez have there been that many already?
Gift economy! Not quite as fun as it sounds but extremely important in online culture. Gift economy refers to the idea of contributing without receiving direct compensation back for your efforts but knowing that as other people do the same…
ANTs in the pants
Actor network theory, not what it sounds like, a bunch of young thespians anxiously clutching at relationships that will get them into a Hollywood film. Instead it refers to a methods for understanding networks and then applying those networks to,…
Database and the narrative.
This chapter by Lev Manovich focuses on the relationship between narrative and database or as he puts it syntagm and paradigm. The argument boils down to linear series of events vs random access. The database of choices from which narrative…
Unsymposium 0.7, medium and the message
Lots of nuggets of wisdom and ideas raised in today’s unsymposium. One I’d like to explore further is the idea of medium and message. A lot of today’s discussion centered around technology and technique, message and the medium, chicken and…
A visual history of open source code.
Online networks are dynamic, so is the language they use. Here is a visual history of the last 20 years of programming language courtesy of ReadWrite. Its interesting to note that the number of languages has multiplied but none has…
Culture and Technology.
Where does culture end and technology begin? Is it technology that shapes culture or is it a certain set of cultural conditions that create an environment for certain technologies to flourish. Furthermore is technology merely the piece of plastic.. or…
Unsymposium 0.6, The nature of infinity.
I’d like to use this post to do two things, one is to apologise to Adrian and his ‘unsympsosium’ panel about a misunderstanding we had and how the question I then put to them seemed strange. The second is to…