Theory Axis of Time [Bardzell’s Scientific Visualization Series] “Dumb as Rocks” -> Stress Level Increases -> Apex Point -> Stress Level Decreases -> Ability to Use Theory Increases Macrotheories Ex.: Marxism Massive phenomena (economy, ideology, classes, etc) that are collectively associated with culture. “top down” view or explanation Microtheories Ex.: Goffman Look at individual people.…
http://www.ku6.com/show/U5S7Zu6RfbjoNFMd.html It is a famous heroes and swordman novel named Tian Long Ba Bu. It is rooted from a true history in China , and it is a period of time when invaded by other races and there are wars years after years. By recording several part of the game, The game movie simply told us a story-a…
I guess the machinima and virtual fashion are both parts of the Video Game Culture—I don’t actually know if this term exists or not… I just want to share some own experiences related to the cultural phase of video game. 7 years ago, my friends and I started to play the famous Star Craft. After…
There are two ways that undertanding and working with things becomes more challenging: it’s too fundamental or it’s too complex. This idea is captured in Jeff’s 3 paradigms of art creation in multimedia tools: from scratch, primitives, and components. From scratch is so fundamental it’s hard. From components is so complex it’s hard. But primitives…
Spending a week in a place where I do not know a word of the language (even if it it doesn’t really matter from a tourist perspective) and many hours in flight with bad (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer bad) movies as entertainment gave me some motivation and time to think about phenomenology…
It seems to me that Jeff’s presentation really caused people to questions some ideas… It was a great presentation and had many great insights into a subset of our culture. I don’t know nearly as much about these subjects as Jeff and most of you. I am constantly humbled by the theories and multidisciplinary concepts…
When we talked about the gray area between professional and amateur, I was thinking about the QUALITY. I have been looking for and enjoying professional artworks or artifacts on purpose, on the other hand, I usually skip over works by amateurs on the web or at some private exhibitions. Those often make me disappointed and…
The “design of primitives” should be a clearly defined subset of interaction design with its own language. We see primitives all around us. Legos are primitives that many of us are familiar with. Their popularity and function are so basic that millions of children and adults have used them. There is a need for having…
By stimulating sensors, Visual language add much more emotional elements. These elements are the media of the expression of the authors—their knowledge, horizons, skills, desire and much more, and were processed by the watcher’s horizons and experience. A good movie was accepted and favorite by many people, but each person has their own reasons to…
Jeff’s last lecture has got me thinking that much of Massive Amateur Culture is about emergence. Platforms emerge, the things that people create on them emerge and cultural phenomena emerge as people interact with (and even change) those products. The whole thing is one big complex system, whose most beautiful and exciting output is often…
Interaction Culture 