S15 Awakening the Digital Imagination
New Media Seminar for Virginia Tech faculty, staff and graduate students
This comic was fascinating last read in our workshop. The “make” to share how time manifests in my world reveals my “old media” tendencies and dedications. From the images I hope to reveal that time and space collide in my … Continue reading →
April 23, 2015 Christiansburg, VA Deschooling isn’t, in my interpretation a dismissal of the process we have come to love and trust, but rather a hope in something else– a process that reflects different desires which drive a search for … Continue reading →
Identify an example of human-computer interaction (from today) that has some/ most/ all of the six elements. This week’s readings prompted me to do some additional digging. I vaguely remember “Rocket” and was struck by the last sentence from Brenda … Continue reading →
So, Brenda Laurel’s essay, “The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them,” was definitely a shift from our reading last week, and maybe all of the readings prior. It was tangible… Not ambiguous…And the point was obvious and straightforward… All computer human interaction, just like all drama should incorporate six elements, as defined by […]
We’ve been reading Viola in preparation for this week’s New Media Seminar. So much of it is swirling around in my head; the way Facebook edits “our year,” edits our life, the way we rely on the unseen data space, … Continue reading →
So, the “make” for this week was to “Post something abut the communication medium you think has had the biggest impact on our world and why.” This was a lot harder to answer than I had originally thought. I like to think I live right underneath the the overpass of the information super highway and […]
An instrument created by ASPECT graduate (he says “sound studies”), the Artiphon. And a lesson on how to raise 900,000 on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artiphon/introducing-the-artiphon-instrument-1 Examples of the application of nonlinear explorations in the classroom: http://hollowdocumentary.com/ http://www.honkytonk.fr/index.php/webdoc/ And final thoughts on content … Continue reading →
Reading the work of Ted Nelson in my own workspace led to the following: I outline major papers in the same way, as seen here: [listing key themes from readings on neoliberalism…] Aside, there is something very wonderful about Wunderlist… … Continue reading →
The 99% Invisible podcast focusing on the work of Doug Engelbart and the differences between his technological creations and those of Steve Jobs led to…
Here are a few thoughts (and a “nugget”) from Alan Turing’s article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” a short piece I am reading for the New…
