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Archives for 2 October 2005
Language of Lev Manovich
For video class Morgan asked us to read the Language of New Media by Lev Manovich. For this week we read the introduction and chapter 1. It’s a great book - well written, interesting, insightful.
He defines new media as digital media, all of which is essentially made up of bits of data, and so can [...]
The Wireless
For this week Clay had us read from Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs. It’s a text that is constantly being talked about at ITP, so it was good to finally read it. The part we read was about wireless technology - in particular the 802.11b or WiFi standard used for sending data over the spectrum the [...]
Cults and Persuasion
We finished reading Coercion this week. I really enjoyed it - it’s a right rollicking read, toilet reading almost.
I loved the bits about cults and pyramid schemes. Rushkoff alluded to something that’s always bothered me about pyramids of all kind (including the one called living in the world as it’s organised right now) - the [...]
Brad and Angelina and Will Ferrell
Last week I didn’t get to vote because Mali’s e-mail with the links to the surveys didn’t come to me for some reason. This meant I wasn’t as excited to see the ratings as the previous week. It was a bit of a disaster in the end - my new show The Illustrator got only [...]
Digital Dossiers
For Embedding Privacy we had to read “Privacy and the Private States” by Janna Malamud Smith. It looks at the states of privacy, as name by Alan Westin: solitude, anonymity, reserve, and intimacy. It’s not earth-shattering, but puts some of the main issues with privacy into some kind of order. As we discovered at the [...]
