Shephard, M. (2013). Minor Urbanism: Everyday entanglements of technology and urban life. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 27(4), 483-494.
This article covers ways that artists are using "technology" or commenting on the use of technology.
technicity - the productive power of technology to make things happen
transduction - the constant making of a new domain in reiterative and transformative practices
"practicing minor urbanism involves reconfiguring, recircuiting and redirecting these normative systems and infrastructures in ways that open them up alternate social and political dynamics."
"Also indicates trend towards increasingly mobile actors and the role of technologies of convince as an indicator of contemporary culture."
I really enjoyed the Corner Convenience work. The video and the book are both good works that push us to think about things in different ways.
Gates, K. (2004). The Past Perfect Promise of Facial Recognition Technology (pp. 1-16). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kelly Gates Paper is about the use of Facial Recognition software, and particularly looking at it in a post 9/11 world.
technostalgic - Thinking something would have happened differently if a technology we have currently existed in the past.
"Other questions that are considered relevant to development of automated recognition concern how children recognize faces, what role facial expressions play in recognition, the role of race and gender, and our ability to recognize faces in ages of varying quality." - 8
"Computerized forms of bodily identification are in many ways consistent with these earlier state efforts, and similarly tied to cultural preoccupations with constructing the limits and possibilities of the nation-state." - 5
Something that this article made me think of was a TED talk about how screens will be able to read our emotions.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Installation Location
I want my main display to be placed here. With smaller podiums along the sides with the separate samples.
A projector could be placed here
To shine a video on this wall.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Response to Veel and Hansen
Hansen, M. (2012). Calm Imaging: The Conquest of Overload and the Conditions of Attention. In Ubiquitous Sensation: Toward and Atmospheric, Collective, and Microtemporal Model of Media (pp. 63-88). Boston: MIT Press.
Hansen argues that ubicomp, or trying to achieve it, is something that is distinctly linked to how we process visual information.
Key Quotes:
"Visual Ergonomics is linked to traditional forms and materials of representation like painting; but because certain ideas of space and its representation discovered in say landscape painting, were carried over to photography and later cinema, it also has some relevance to them. Cognitive ergonomics is a later phenomenon and is involved in delineating dynamic processes. Whereas visual ergonomics was involved in defining space, cognitive ergonomics is involved in describing temporality." -65
"My Argument is that technics does impact time at the level of its absolute constitution - which is to say, prior to any experience in time - and that this impact paradoxically holds far greater significance for our experience that the fact that media proximately mediate our intratemporal lives." - 80 (emphasis original)
This "third wave of ubicomp" that he references makes me think of a few things.
-The Weiser quote he uses about having each computer serve many people all over the world (68) is getting closer and closer. An example is I could be using my iPhone to listen to pandora (music server) and then ordering something from Amazon. At least three computers are being used in this transaction, but in reality probably many more.
-Another Weiser quote is "they envision a world where machines 'take care of our unconscious details'" (68). Siri is trying to do this, but always seems to just fall short. Sometimes she can do exactly what I ask, but that is the outlier. Most of the time, she's inaccurate, not to mention she must have Wi-Fi to work.
Veel, K. (2012). Calm Imaging: The Conquest of Overload and the Conditions of Attention. In Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging With Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 119-132). Boston: MIT Press.
Veel discusses calm computing and how that affects us, particularly at an unconscious level, and how we need to be more aware of it.
Key Quotes:
"Rather, it calls for a closer scrutiny of the nature of the apparently seamless link between human beings and technology that deals with overload situations before they reach our awareness." -122
In reference to border surveillance "Although the situation of overload is both created and countered on the system side ant therefore, in principle, never has to be brought to our attention, process affects us significantly." - 122
Quoting Arvidson "'The margin has depth and is a genuine dimension in our lives - an ongoing presence in attending life. Just as everything in the unconscious can never be made conscious, but nonetheless some of its content ma be active in my ongoing life, everything in the margin can never be made thematic, but nonetheless some its content may be active in my ongoing life.'" -125
"Not only are we saved a great deal of unimaginative, effortful work, but we also risk loosing touch with the deliberative aspects of thinking because technology make the decision about what should be thematic and what should be at the margin of our attention for us." - 126
When she references Times Square it makes me remember the first time I saw it. I was visiting a friend who went to Pratt, and we went so I could see it. We got off the subway a few blocks away and I closed my eyes and they lead me to the center of times square. I could see the brightness of the lights/signs through my eyelids. Then I finally opened my eyes and it was overwhelming.
She also references Youtube suggestions, which made me think of netflix suggestions, which are hilarious sometimes. I once received a category suggestion of "Independent foreign films with strong female leads".
Hansen argues that ubicomp, or trying to achieve it, is something that is distinctly linked to how we process visual information.
Key Quotes:
"Visual Ergonomics is linked to traditional forms and materials of representation like painting; but because certain ideas of space and its representation discovered in say landscape painting, were carried over to photography and later cinema, it also has some relevance to them. Cognitive ergonomics is a later phenomenon and is involved in delineating dynamic processes. Whereas visual ergonomics was involved in defining space, cognitive ergonomics is involved in describing temporality." -65
"My Argument is that technics does impact time at the level of its absolute constitution - which is to say, prior to any experience in time - and that this impact paradoxically holds far greater significance for our experience that the fact that media proximately mediate our intratemporal lives." - 80 (emphasis original)
This "third wave of ubicomp" that he references makes me think of a few things.
-The Weiser quote he uses about having each computer serve many people all over the world (68) is getting closer and closer. An example is I could be using my iPhone to listen to pandora (music server) and then ordering something from Amazon. At least three computers are being used in this transaction, but in reality probably many more.
-Another Weiser quote is "they envision a world where machines 'take care of our unconscious details'" (68). Siri is trying to do this, but always seems to just fall short. Sometimes she can do exactly what I ask, but that is the outlier. Most of the time, she's inaccurate, not to mention she must have Wi-Fi to work.
Veel, K. (2012). Calm Imaging: The Conquest of Overload and the Conditions of Attention. In Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging With Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 119-132). Boston: MIT Press.
Veel discusses calm computing and how that affects us, particularly at an unconscious level, and how we need to be more aware of it.
Key Quotes:
"Rather, it calls for a closer scrutiny of the nature of the apparently seamless link between human beings and technology that deals with overload situations before they reach our awareness." -122
In reference to border surveillance "Although the situation of overload is both created and countered on the system side ant therefore, in principle, never has to be brought to our attention, process affects us significantly." - 122
Quoting Arvidson "'The margin has depth and is a genuine dimension in our lives - an ongoing presence in attending life. Just as everything in the unconscious can never be made conscious, but nonetheless some of its content ma be active in my ongoing life, everything in the margin can never be made thematic, but nonetheless some its content may be active in my ongoing life.'" -125
"Not only are we saved a great deal of unimaginative, effortful work, but we also risk loosing touch with the deliberative aspects of thinking because technology make the decision about what should be thematic and what should be at the margin of our attention for us." - 126
When she references Times Square it makes me remember the first time I saw it. I was visiting a friend who went to Pratt, and we went so I could see it. We got off the subway a few blocks away and I closed my eyes and they lead me to the center of times square. I could see the brightness of the lights/signs through my eyelids. Then I finally opened my eyes and it was overwhelming.
She also references Youtube suggestions, which made me think of netflix suggestions, which are hilarious sometimes. I once received a category suggestion of "Independent foreign films with strong female leads".
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
things related to new media/culture
http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/
Saturday's Ted Radio Hour was really great. About screen time and technology, and ways people are using it today and versions of it for the future.
http://wbaa.org/post/art-museums-digital-age
Also a story today about art museums and technology.
Saturday's Ted Radio Hour was really great. About screen time and technology, and ways people are using it today and versions of it for the future.
http://wbaa.org/post/art-museums-digital-age
Also a story today about art museums and technology.
Idea for New Media Final Project
I want to use technology as a way to make people interact, in person rather than the internet.
I want to create and promote a hashtag for Purdue's campus and Greater Lafayette, that encourages users to take a photo of a stranger (similar to the vein of Humans of New York).
This way we will be using social media & technology to increase our person to person interaction.
I want to create and promote a hashtag for Purdue's campus and Greater Lafayette, that encourages users to take a photo of a stranger (similar to the vein of Humans of New York).
This way we will be using social media & technology to increase our person to person interaction.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Responses to Marx & Shanken
Shanken E. (2014). Art and Electronic Media. New York, New York: Phaidon Press.
A concise history of Art as it pertains to Technology. Starting with early references such as Duchamp, and continuing to current working artists.
Throughout the book, it spurs me to think of other works/technology that relate to this.
Google Deep Dream
- You can give the AI a photo and it looks for things within the photograph.
Here is one of mine.
Arcade Fire Personalized Music Video
The Wilderness Downtown
AF made a music video that uses Google Street view images of the neighborhood you grew up in.
Tate After Dark
In August 2014 for 5 nights you could control robots inside of the Tate Museum in London. I never controlled a robot, but you could watch the live stream. They had 4 different robots on at a time.
My Husband loved the "They Rule" website. We spent at least 30 minutes making different connections between companies.
I also know where all of Katy Perrys wardrobe inspiration came from now.
A concise history of Art as it pertains to Technology. Starting with early references such as Duchamp, and continuing to current working artists.
Throughout the book, it spurs me to think of other works/technology that relate to this.
Google Deep Dream
- You can give the AI a photo and it looks for things within the photograph.
Here is one of mine.
Arcade Fire Personalized Music Video
The Wilderness Downtown
AF made a music video that uses Google Street view images of the neighborhood you grew up in.
Tate After Dark
In August 2014 for 5 nights you could control robots inside of the Tate Museum in London. I never controlled a robot, but you could watch the live stream. They had 4 different robots on at a time.
My Husband loved the "They Rule" website. We spent at least 30 minutes making different connections between companies.
I also know where all of Katy Perrys wardrobe inspiration came from now.
Marx, L. (2010). Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept. Technology and Culture, Volume 51, Number 3. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech/summary/v051/5.3.marx.html
This article discusses the term "technology" and how it's meaning changed over the course of time, particularly starting with the Industrial Revolution.
Quotes that stood out in the text:
"What requires emphasis is the republican thinkers' uncompromising insistence that advances in science and the mechanic arts are valuable chiefly as a means of arriving at social and political ends. " - 565
"To a vocal minority of dissident artists and intellectuals, the worshipful view of material progress was symptomatic of moral negligence and political regression." - 566
"Although the confluence of the sciences and the practical arts was well under way by 1847, it was not until the final quarter of the century, with the rise of the electrical and chemical industries, that the large-scale amalgamation of science and industry helped to create the semantic void that would eventually call forth the new concept - technology." -569
When talking about automotive technology and all it's parts; engine, assembly lines, engineers, corporate structure, stockholders, repair facilities. "Where, then, do we draw the boundary between the system and the rest of the society and culture?" - 575
Thursday, September 10, 2015
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