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Screen as Tabula Lucida
1 Comment Published by Jeremy Douglass May 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized, Poetics, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.Pan Am Stewardess, uploaded by splorp
Begin with an old distinction: on the one hand, photographic images, which reflect the existence of real things in the real world. On the other hand, drawings, paintings, renderings, and other representations which may signify things, but do not testify to their reality. Digital camera files belong to the first […]
Bot Abuse, Interactive Misuse
2 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass May 19th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Poetics, bots, Features, Text Art, HAI, Fictionality.This April 22, CHI 2006 hosted the second annual “Abuse” workshop on interaction gone bad. Last year, the theme was “The Darker Side of Human-Computer Interaction.” This year’s theme: “Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies.” The first workshop was chaired by Antonella de Angeli, Sheryl Brahnam, and Peter Wallis, and they were joined in organizing […]
Super-Spectacular Day
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino May 18th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.In 1980 (c1979), MAD Magazine featured a form of what Christy has been calling Quantum Writing. Amidst the pages of the magazine was a free record. Upon placing the needle on the record, you hear a song begin with a pre-Prozac, bright sunny intro about what a wonderful day it is going to be….
Words On Skin
5 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass May 17th, 2006 in Uncategorized, ASCII, Poetics, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.For a while now I’ve subscribed to various online sources of words on skin images, and recently I also found Darren Barefoot’s collection of observations on Textual Tattoos. The following are some thoughts about words-on-skin - thinking towards (as usual) digital-words-on-skin.
When people think of words-on-skin, they generally think of tattoos. Examples of plain-text (or reasonably […]
UCLA — University Profile
0 Comments Published by jessica May 15th, 2006 in Uncategorized, News, Text Art, Criticism, Education.(See collection of profiles of New Media programs around the globe.)
U of California, Los Angeles
Location: LA, California, USA
Type: University
Royce Hall:
Photo: Wikipedia
Student Profile:
Jessica Pressman
Ph.D. Candidate
Undergraduates: 24,811
Graduates: 10,814
Emphases: New Media, Digital Art, Eliterature
Reviewer: Jessica Pressman
The skinny: UCLA’s strength are its world-class researchers who interact across humanities, arts, and science. N. Katherine Hayles in […]