October 2009
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Lev Manowich
This week we must consider an essay by Lev Manowich. (Which is after the jump.)
I will consider these questions shortly, for the discussion on Friday.
“first part of the essay has lots of statistics about media use, can you add any personal experiences to support or contradict these facts?
Manovich suggests the merging and even reversing of De Certeau’s categories of ‘strategy’ and...
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Two Minute Presentations.
I unfortunately couldn’t make my elective this week, for unforeseen reasons, which was annoying because I am told I missed a really good thing. Here is a quote from a fellow electivite’s blog about some of the stuff I missed:
“Do humans experience the world analogically? Vision is analogue, yet language is digital..
Nam June Paik, Random Access.
Access to knowledge does not...
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Wikipedia's DIGITAL Article →
I’ll stick this here, obvious as it is, for completion.
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Digital Is...
We have been asked to think about what digital is to us.
Off the top of my head I would say it is a lot to me. I can only vaguely remember a time when analogue was more widespread. I guess that comes from growing up at a period of history where things are changing at such a fast speed.
Today I wouldn’t be able to, at the touch of a button (pretty much), get my hands on whatever media I...
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Aesthetics
We started the digital environments elective with a discussion on aesthetics.
It was based primarily around the quote:
“Aesthetics is to artists what Ornithology is to birds”- Barnett Newmann.
This sparked off a lot of debate, but the main points seemed to focus on the definition of aesthetics you chose.
Aesthetics and ornithology are both human concepts, but I see it that aesthetics is...
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Digital Environments
Electives have started now in year two of my BA. Having chosen to partake in the Digital Environments course my first task is to start a blog. As I already have one set up I have decided to include it within this blog.
To make this less confusing than it could be, the link on the left will show only posts tagged digital environments. So I shall reflect here on what has been discussed in this...