I’ve been thinking a lot about how space can become place after reading Cresswell’s “Place: An Introduction”. It’s particularly relevant to me at the moment as I’m moving into a new house in five days with my partner and another… Continue Reading
I have chosen to investigate Storey Hall (building 16). Up until the first week of my final year at RMIT, I had never once entered the building. Upon first entering, I immediately felt unnerved, due both to the strange architectural… Continue Reading
In my opinion, David Lynch is a master of creating unnerving atmospheric space through both his cinematography and sound. I am always surprised at how he is able to make me feel uncomfortable without actually showing anything necessarily “scary” (in the typical… Continue Reading
Tim Creswell addresses a number of issues relating to augmented place in this introduction. Specifically, he outlines ways in which geographic data is business; how companies retain information from geographic information systems (GIS). This particularly interested me as I have… Continue Reading
Neeve on the extremely broad definitions of a database. Kiralee makes understanding the week 11 symposium a whole lot easier. And Callista writes about Manovich’s distinction between Narrative form and Database form. That was quite hard to find people who had… Continue Reading
In the introduction to his book ‘Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation’, Galloway writes about the decentralisation of the internet and what this means for media makers and controllers. The reading was quite complicated in it’s language, as a lot… Continue Reading
Once again, I left this week’s symposium feeling more confused than when I went in. I did manage to get a few points down, which seem fairly important: – Different jurisdictions will have different legalities surrounding the use of databases:… Continue Reading
Manovich writes about how new media is still linear. We’re constantly limited by the size of our screen, and we’re only presented with information “one screen at a time”. So is this any different from more traditional media such as… Continue Reading
Despite not being able to attend this week’s symposium, Amy has a nice summary of a few main points from the Barabasi reading. Angus goes into a bit more details about the 80/20 rule – I found his post extremely… Continue Reading
I’ve started coding my “Mixed Media Creative Critical Essay” (?) and this is just the “About” page. Looks like it’s going to take a very long time…