At the beginning, Lev Manovich proposed a lot of question, “Where were the theoreticians when….?” These questions show us another aspect of design, theory, progresses, or we can say change: it’s unpredictable character. Although we are always trying to predict the future or the result of some action or design. “I aim to describe and…
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Christian’s excellent introduction to Lev Manovicht focused in part on the power of the medium to shape communication. The term “medium” refers to the communicative substrate that we chose to “fix” a given message, different examples include: print, radio, film, television, web and so on. What’s fascinating about media is how they invariably shape both…
I looked up and down the list of categories in this blog to pick topic up for posting. All categories are really strange for me except leisure things, because I have studied regarding only science or engineering things. It seems a philosophy study for me. Anyway, I found a document about visual social semiotics while…
OK it’s awfully geeky, but here are a couple examples of new media that I love, but they are interesting in a couple ways. They are both “Music Videos” a form of entertainment that is just a little younger than I am, but like all new media there is a lot of twists. The music…
I’d like to go back to the subject of Erik’s example about material vs. tool vs. designer with the tool being a hammer, wood the material, and the carpenter the specific “designer.” Though it seems clear, remember we reached a point where the line begins to blur between material and tool; for example, a hammer…
Manovich – Interaction Culture Manovich draws heavily from Russian literary theory and Marxism. A focus on modes of production and consumption. “Digital materialism … principles of computer hardware and software and the operations involved in creating cultural objects on a computer to uncover a new cultural logic at work.” (p.7) [means of production] However, he…
It is amazing that three classes was taught by one professor within one day. The best part is that we only discussed the theories in the first two classes, because after the second class, my head was already painful and turn into mess because of those questions and my hard thinking. After almost three hours…
I am going through my to-do list at breakneck speeds this morning and come to my reading for tomorrow, Manovich. I think, “hmm it should be here in my bag.” Nope, maybe in oncourse, nope. Where the heck is it, and will we still need to read it for tomorrow? Am I the only one…
Something in the reading got me to thinking about the old “form versus function” discourse, specifically in the context of digital design. As you may already know, all designed things have both a form and function component. The “form” of a thing can generally be described as how it looks or is shaped, while its…
Liveblog for the 9-4-2007 lecture. No promises that I’ll come back and clean this up, but please comment and continue with the lecture discussions! Interaction design concerns itself with “the material without qualities.”For all design disciplines, the notion of design material is critical. In many cases, we describe design professions in regards to the materials…
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