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".
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