During this week’s symposium, there was an underlining concept to destroy the physical and reproduce meaning as meaning. With technology changing beneath our fingertips, the question lies between media and how we control, curate, produce and connect to it. While the focus in the conversation was fixed on databases and the aesthetics surrounding the stream, it was […]
Just hours ago it was revealed that Morrissey has had ‘cancerous tissue‘ removed four times, talking about his illness in a Spanish interview via the El Mundo. In it’s translation, it was the first time Morrissey had talked about cancer, regardless of previous reports of his diminishing health and issues reported in news. Unafraid of […]
Looking at the open nature of web, this week’s reading looks at databases and the contemporary contexts it fortifies. Breaking it down as a cultural form, Manovich discusses operations, addressing the context of a ‘computerised society‘ as a ‘new way to structure our experience of ourselves and of the world.’ While the reading identifies database […]
Investing time into what you create is nothing unless you receive feedback or review. Work in progress is a behaviour and unmistaken sign of growth, I mean, even The World Wide Web was once a WIP by a computer jock. Presently, the symposium seemed to scatter across these ideas in planning our future assignment and the […]
It took me 20 minutes of searching and a friendly Tumblr user to get invited to Ello, a new social network with a growing buzz around it’s exclusive behaviour. While I have no idea on where it is heading, I can tell you that it has been growing at a substantial rate, with individuals selling […]
Photographer and filmmaker Matthew Frost has teamed up with actress Kirsten Dunst to create a short film commenting on today’s selfie-obsessed culture. Bleached in golden rays and dreamy suburbia, Kirsten Dunst plays herself, meeting two selfie-obsessed individuals that could be loosely called fans. However, they don’t show interest in her, ask her any questions, or really interact with her […]
As a student of humanities hopeless with basic mathematical terms, the chaotic small world of Barabási was a text at times I had to read twice, even though it was not completely hard to measure. (If you’ve ever read The Fabric Of The Cosmos, you understand the ambitious way of applying and defogging theories to […]
Stepping back to earlier this week, the symposium led me to question a few things. Firstly, what does it truly mean for things to be connected? Does this connection effect the relationships they resonate? What is the relevance between yourself and writing? When there’s no middle, end or beginning, what matters most? What matters less? […]
I’m one of those people who prefer listening to music during study. I work with music in my part-time job so it’s always blaring while I do things, and since I still live at home, channelling out unwanted noise from my younger brothers is the only way. This isn’t so bad though, if anything, I’ve […]
Complex and invested, this week’s reading is rich in examples and theoretical questions surrounding systems and their components. Illustrating the vulnerability within these connections, Watts not only remarks about individual behaviour, but also on it’s impact to aggregate collective behaviour. Scientifically, the pervasive ideas of connection and consciousness have been fundamental game changers. ‘How vulnerable […]
