Archive for February, 2001
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MY FINGER’S GETTING TIRED: Unencumbered Interactive Installations for the Entire Body The perspective of this paper is that the experience of interactive art should be an aesthetically pleasing experience not only for the mind, but also for the body. This goal can be obtained only when the human manipulation of an interactive system becomes physically [...]
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From Telematic Man to Heaven in the Net Another contributing factor to the cognitive ease of extending your body in this telematic space is the semiotic complexity of the bed that preoccupies the mind whilst the process of sensory shift takes place almost unnoticed. The telematic communication experienced is heightened when the technology involved is [...]
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A study published in Science magazine claims that trained computers make better designers than untrained humans in producing creative adverts. The study found that computers programmed with procedural rules of cognative psychology produced adverts which were consistently rated by a team of experts as being better than those produced by non-professional designers. Before you get [...]
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GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM — One of the founding members of the Quicktime team is now the head of Generic Media, a company that hopes to help bridge incompatible streams in formats from Real, Microsoft, etc.
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Mappa.Mundi Magazine: World Wide Wunderkammer. In their new project, WonderWalker: A Global Online Wunderkammer, Walczak and Wattenberg apply this old metaphor to the Internet. The results are fascinating. WonderWalker is a visual map of icons. People create icons and lay those icons in a place that is appropriate on the map.
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As Sherry Turkle puts it: "Many of the institutions that used to bring us together — a main street, a union hall, a town meeting — no longer work as before. Most people spend most of their day alone at a screen of a television or a computer. Meanwhile, social beings that we are, we [...]
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k.i.s.s. of the panopticon gives people a quick, user-friendly, one-stop shopping guide to new media literacy, as well as cultural/critical theory and its relationship with communications and new media, including the Internet. It might also help to get people thinking and maybe, just mebbe, provide a fresh perspective on how this stuff really affects our [...]
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“The Brain Opera and Active Music,” by Tod Machover Thirty years ago, the great pianist and essayist Glenn Gould published an article on the future of music recording (High Fidelity, April 1966) in which he said: “In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go [...]
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Warren Neidich: Deconstructing The Infotainment Machine Artist Warren Neidich began to reach a widespread audience with the publication of “American History Reinvented” by Aperture Press in 1989. To examine the way that photography generates our ideas about history, he had actors dress up in historical costumes from different periods and re-enact tableaux, which he photographed. [...]
