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Someday soon: Your life as a visual database | Musings on Media
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Blogging for EMAC 5300. Someday soon: Your life as a visual database. Of all of the interesting concepts that Lev Manovich presents in. The Language of New Media. The most intriguing to me is the idea of the computer database logic shaping culture. Manovich cites a 1994 edition of the journal. Manovich also asserts: “Rather than being merely one cultural language among others, cinema is now becoming. Cultural interface, a toolbox for all cultural communication, overtaking the printed word.”. He adds: ...
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The Bloggers are Revolting | Steeplechasing
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October 13, 2009. The Bloggers are Revolting. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 12:30 am by alinemckenzie. Back in my journalist days, I was forbidden to write anything in second person. Even something as benign as “If you’re the kind of person who X” opens the door to “well, I’m not, so I’ll stop reading now.” The principle was that a reporter never knows what’s in the mind of the reader. British theorist Stuart Hall. In his 1980 work “Encoding/Decoding” (an expansion of work h...8220;[I]t...
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Documentation of my Final MFA project at UT Dallas Pt. 1 (Updated) | EMAC and its wisdom
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EMAC and its wisdom. What started as one and ends as another. Documentation of my Final MFA project at UT Dallas Pt. 1 (Updated). 01192011 – 5:30 pm. Posted in Final Project. Out of Class Post. Tagged Arts and Technology. University of Texas at Dallas. Projectors can be used for so much more, the experimentation phase is nothing new. There are many performance artists such as The Octopus Project and videos such as an interview done by Intel of the photographer of The Sartorialist blog:. After much discus...
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Wrapping Up | EMAC and its wisdom
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EMAC and its wisdom. What started as one and ends as another. 06222011 – 4:16 pm. At this point I have graduated and I am now going on to different things not always bigger (and better can’t be compared since they are so different worlds) . I am leaving this blog up as an archive of my work and may post from time to time. Project he has going now. For now I bid you adue and hope we see each other at the café. Laquo; Quick Update More explanation and details coming soon! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Follow...
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Documentation of my Final MFA project at UT Dallas Pt. 3 and ish | EMAC and its wisdom
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EMAC and its wisdom. What started as one and ends as another. Documentation of my Final MFA project at UT Dallas Pt. 3 and ish. 02162011 – 9:50 pm. It has been two weeks since I have last written the project update. Part of it was due to the weather and part to apathy and catching up. Progress has been made and for the most part I have locked the creative video portion of the projection and the video I will project. Myself and a few more as I get the names I’ll eventually have a full list of names. I lik...
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I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. | Steeplechasing
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October 5, 2009. I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 11:19 pm by alinemckenzie. Today at work, I edited video, something I’ve never done before. From the get-go, I was committing remediation. The editing program had four major areas on screen. There was the raw video I’d downloaded, the work in progress composed of snippets of video linked by transitions (both of these areas resembling a film reel...
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Four Degrees From Beethoven | Steeplechasing
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November 16, 2009. Four Degrees From Beethoven. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 9:22 pm by alinemckenzie. One cool thing about network theory that Duncan Watts. Didn’t mention in his book. Is that it works over time as well as space. For instance, I’m four degrees removed from Beethoven. The tale involves AOL, Russia, the movie Moonstruck, an anonymous old woman at a party, and, of course, Beethoven. Actor Feodor Feodorovich Chaliapin. Beethoven was Beethoven. Died in Vienna , 1827. The d...
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Almost Like Real Life | Steeplechasing
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November 10, 2009. Almost Like Real Life. At 2:04 am by alinemckenzie. I enjoyed danah boyd’s. Thesis, Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics. I found it engaging, filled with the voices of actual teens rather than a dry scholarly tone, and sensible. As she put it:. The key teen social practices have not changed as a result of technology, but the site of gathering has. (p. 240). Unfortunately, in the end I regarded her conclusion as rather a duh! For the young people boyd inte...
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