The Illusions:
“Today, everywhere, these machines are being replaced by new, digital illusion generators.”
Manovich talks about building illusion and making the computer animations/simulations are real an s possible. Thus using already existing standards and building upon them. For example with the creation of the desktop interface.
The visual culture of a computer age is cinematographic in its [...]
The language of New Media_Lev Manovich
A question Im asking myself…
A question that I would like to explore is the idea surrounding why we choose to immersion ourselves in a virtual environments and what we gain from it…
‘If a man takes fifty Campbell soup can and puts them on a canvas, it is not the retinal image which concerns us is, what interests us [...]
Total Interaction_Theory and Practice of a new Paradigm for the Design Desiplines:Gerhard M.Buurman
Through viewing a selection of films ” Early Cinema Primitive and Pioneers” generated by BFI.
It was a collection of early cinema and film devices that captured subtle progression of the film using primary sources. I wanted to reflect on this and slowly strip apart the process that the computer goes through to organstrate task driven [...]
Flash to the Core_An Interactive Sketchbook:Joshua Davis
My new bibles arrived! Joshua Davis is one of the digital artists at the forefront of interactivity using flash!
So today, I am going to start becoming more aqanited with the flash interface of cs3.
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I feel that this application has given me the opportunity to explore new roles.
Where my tradiotinal role of Graphic Designer could be [...]
Frieze_Art Fair Saturday 2007
Went along on the Saturday with some of the guys…thought it wouldbe a good opportunity to view some of the big players in contempoary art.I felt that there were very few artist utlising the Digital medium,there were a examples of video art and photography.A question i asked myself, was the use of digital mediums and [...]
Zoo_Art Fair : Monday 15th November 2007
Went along with some of the guys and checked out the Zoo Art Fair…
it was interesting to check out whats happening more locally with alot of the London Gallerys and veiw some of the work that being created by young artists…I enjoyed one piece that was created using recycled trash and which was interacted by [...]
Hamlet on the Holo deck_ The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H.Murray
Chapter 3:From Additive to Expressive Form
Eliza comes to life…1966 Joseph Weizenbaum created the first computer based charcter…based on natural lanuage processing…and was based on the idea of theparist.
He use the computer in as a sort of parody of a psychtherparist, but exploits the rigid ness of the conversational dialogue that the patient/therapist participates.
My interpretation [...]
Hamlet on the Holo deck_ The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H.Murray
Chapter 2:Harbingers of the Holodeck
The chapter introduces the narrative of the creator being s storyteller…and how alternate routes can direct us on very different paths/meanings…
Murray give various examples of what would it be like if we were faced with other plausible routes that out cautious may take. Or the moral consequences of taking these other [...]
Symposium _ Wednesday 21st September 2007
Taking part and viewing the different presentations throughout he day. Was a very god experience for me? I found my peers work, very thought provoking. Coming from a work background, with quite a commercial style. I was made aware of majority having quite a defined style and work ethos.
It helped me a starting point to [...]
Virtual_Cherry poppin…
Well..this is my first virtual post…of my online diary…I have to admit of being quite a traditionlist,in that i do miss gliding my fountain pen across a lovely blank paper A5 page and watching my life come alive on ink and paper…I feel its such a sensual process…
But times move on and this will document [...]
