Reading

Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of Internet by Sherry Turkle p.183: “Yet this new writing is a kind of hybrid: speech momentarily frozen into artifact, but curiously ephemeral artifact. …typographic conventions known as emoticons replace physical gestures and facial expressions. For example, :-) indicates a smiling face and :-( indicates an...
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extension of digital text / properties of digital system: Algorithm-driven operation -> digital objects with the machine-language instructions Reactive and interactive nature -> Computer code is based on conditional statements (if… then) that execute different instructions, depending on the state of the system or on external input. I call a system reactive when it responds to...
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The book is about digital story telling. “I am assuming that this movement is analogous to the invention of the movie camera a hundred years ago, and asking: if the digital environment (multimedia, networked, desktop, VR, arcade, etc.) is the ‘camera,’ then what will be the equivalent of the ‘movie’? The holodeck provides one...
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Ian Bogost introduced the captioned reading, see full pdf here: Philosophy is now also looking for practice-based , experimental or new approach to expand their field, I do agree on some of the mentioned suggestion as below. However if it ties closely between Philosophy and public market policy/economists, it may risk the the original...
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The article is talking about web browser/ webpage is (going) to be dead, because of the shift of method to access the NET. Right now with the hardware device that change the human behavior of browsing and use of technology such as iPAD and other mobile devices. Application is developed & often use API...
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  Book review: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/01/web-aesthetics-how-digital-med.php Remix culture: dup, hip-hop, DJ/VJ in music, collage/montage in design, movie, open source code and library in contemporary culture p.100: “Reality itself…is entirely captured…in the world of make believe, in which appearances are not just on the screen through which experience is communicated, but they become the experience. Manuel Castells, The Rise of...
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Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice (2008) by Mitchell Whitelaw develop a wider potential of data practices… The so-called ‘web 2.0’ paradigm further abstracts web content into feeds, real-time flows of XML data. > Yes as web 2.0 facilitates the exchange, sharing of data, content / data itself converts into feeds that...
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About the book: http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/nasabook/ p.13: “It could further be argued that computational art is directly descended from the “systems” art5 of the 1960s, which was less concerned with material art objects and more with systems and processes.” system art & materials art objects, networked communication change the way on how we look at an art piece, it...
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interactive: a conversation from Fundamentals of Interactivity by Chris Crawford
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Narrative—or story—art represents events taking place over time.
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