General Notes: Intent can be lost through context – eg. changing the tone of a sentence changes its meaning Frued – conscious vs. unconscious Semiotics – notion of a signifier and a signified – signifier = the body; signified =… Continue Reading
Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. I didn’t like this reading. It’s not that it didn’t make sense or that it was difficult to follow, I’m just not quite sure what… Continue Reading
Can technology progress independently of art and culture? what is meant by key words? culture vs. technology – use of everything = technology adrian: there is no culture without technology to make art you need technology – dependent – development… Continue Reading
Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books — Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. I thought that this reading gave a really good introduction to the idea of hypertext, as although this is… Continue Reading
Extracts from: Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. This reading covered a lot… and I mean a lot. Then again, perhaps it only seemed like a lot because… Continue Reading
“Monkey steals camera from photographer to snap himself a selfie. Gets uploaded to Wikipedia. Photographer sues Wikipedia to remove it. Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as ‘monkey owns it’.” Honestly, this only adds to the confusion I have felt surrounding… Continue Reading
Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines 91.1: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow’s Intellectual Revolution, And Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom. Sausalito: Mindful Press, 1992. Print. I found the reading… Continue Reading
The recent talk about the definition of a ‘story’ reminds me of a book I read sometime last year called, “Our Tragic Universe,” by Scarlett Thomas. In her book, Thomas attempts to create a ‘storyless story’, something which makes the book… Continue Reading
The symposium for this week was little more challenging than the last. Another lecture, Adrian discussed how stories are prompted by the ‘technology’ that is available or created, and that the technology itself is influenced by the past. Why is… Continue Reading
The readings for this week discussed copyright laws in Australia and their relation to our blog content. With that in mind, I will not be attaching any pictures, documents, sound clips or the like to this post, mostly out of… Continue Reading