Out of Control

So it’s been awhile, had a bit of a reprieve there, but I’m back and really need to write about stuff that I read over a week ago–eek!
In Out of Control, Kevin Kelly tells a lot of really cool stories about technology, so many so that it’s going to be easy for me to get [...]

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The Faces of New Media….

I think I’ll start discussion of Mark Hansen’s New Philosophy for New Media with the Digital Face Interface (DFI) because I find it fascinating and frustrating, and because it ties directly in with some of the other things I’ve been watching and reading when I’m not busy being a student–and it’s cool whenever that happens, [...]

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3rd Response to Remediation (Wunderkammer Ahoy)

Cabinet of Wonders
Grusin and Bolter derive a similarity between digital media and antique Wunderkammer—Cabinets of Wonder. This struck me as a particular apt thought in that so many digital media are used as holders of other things, as at this time so many are also built upon database (which I have actually described to basic [...]

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Second Response to Remediation (Whither Steampunk?)

Steampunk—Nothing Transparent About It
“What designers often say they want is an ‘interfaceless’ interface, in which there will be no recognizable electronic tools—no buttons, windows, scroll bars, or even icons as such. Instead the user will move through the space interacting with the objects ‘naturally,’ as she does in the physical world. Virtual reality, three-dimensional graphics, [...]

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First Response to Remediation

Remediation reads like a narrative of new media—a retelling of the way things are (or might be) in order to understand that what’s “new” about new media might not be so “new” or frightening (as it is to some) at all. Grusin and Bolter write from the standpoint that our society wants to both have [...]

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