Shakespeare
Session 1, September 14, DmPerspectives
Links
Notes
We still have no Goethe or Shakespeare of Interactive Media
- 15th century English exploded
- French higher class, English lower; this is why 2 words for every meat: French Beef but English Cow
- Shakespeare write sucessfully on three classes: low-brow comedy, middle-brow histories, high-brow poems
- expectations of Interactive vs expectations other media (plays, film, book, games): "I forgot to turn off the art!"
Invisible Interaction
- Artist as magician who always explains the trick he's doing
- Sometimes the little man behind the curtain is more interesting than the wizard
- Tim Hawkinson showing his wires
- Christiane Paul CODeDOC focusing on the elegant code itself (at UBS, once the code was finished, we were told to do it again, but make the code more elegant. It should do the same thing, but do it with a different, more elegant process)
Spores
- Moving the camera says similar thing as no Goethe for Interactive Media
- true interaction is two-way, Doom that develops landscapes on its own
- "Process" is a crutch
Reading for next week
Here is the link to International Fashion Machines, my friend Maggie Orth's company, which makes electronic textiles:
http://www.ifmachines.com/people.html
This is the link to the Long Now Foundation, which is building the 10,000 year clock and creating contemporary Rosetta stones for today's digital languages.
A particularly telling essay on digital obsolescence is this essay by Steward Brand: http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/library.htm
Remember: "digital information lasts forever, or five years, whichever comes first."
The excellent interactive website on the traveling exhibition on Visual Music which I saw at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC is here:
http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/
It is not entirely germane to our subject, but a excellent exploration of an important and overlooked thread in 20th century culture.
Finally this is Christiane Paul's great Whitney Museum exhibit CODeDOC:
http://artport.whitney.org/exhibitions/index.shtml
Then I wanted to have online all the links for the future classes. Because of these problems here are two links to subjects we will talk about and then I will send out others after tomorrow.
Nathan Shedroff is a writer and teacher on design, who has a very interesting web design site that neatly talks about the structure of interactivity, Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design. (http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/index.html) Pay particular attention to this section on metaphor. (http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/9.html)
Here is an early example of the Immerisive Experience in which a single building was built for a single painting. (http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettcyclo.htm)