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This session explored the impact and the potentials of the creative transformation of the open source initiative and how the open source culture might introduce new types of creative practices, artists and collaborative communities. See the sessions’ slides below:
Open Source Culture and Transdisciplinary Practice
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Reading Material: Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 2
Philosophy of Technology 2: Embodiment, Disembodiment and Immersion
The Philosophy of Experience
Reading Material: Page 3-12 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4877219/M-MerleauPonty-Phenomenology-of-Perception
PDF Document of the Presentation – Maurice Merleau-Ponty_15Feb12
Art & Science 1: What is Consciousness?
Reading: Susan Blackmore – Consciousness: An Introduction 2003
More info: http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Consciousness/cons.htm
“The History of Interactivity I” session will explore the concept of “interaction” and how this has been transformed by the applications of modern technology. We look into artistic and design applications of interfaces and discuss the current states of digital media and emerging technologies. We will talk about the human-technology interrelationship and compare that with the artwork-spectator relationship.The session will provide a comprehensive overview of pioneering scientists and artist working in the field of interactive art and interface design.
The History of Interaction 1
Readings:
Art & Science 2: The Philosophy and Science of Experience
Reading Material: Page 3-12 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4877219/M-MerleauPonty-Phenomenology-of-Perception
Art & Science 1: What is Consciousness? (Atau/Brigitta)
Reading: Susan Blackmore – Consciousness: An Introduction 2003
More info: http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Consciousness/cons.htm
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 2
Philosophy of Technology 2: Embodiment, Disembodiment and Immersion Details »
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1
Reading Material: Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
This session explored the impact and the potentials of the creative transformation of the open source initiative and how the open source culture might introduce new types of creative practices, artists and collaborative communities. See the sessions’ slides below:
Open Source Culture and Transdisciplinary Practice
- An introduction of the sessions as they are planned
- Going over the Module Handbook
-”Why Theory” and the different meanings of the words theory and research in different domains relevant to us
- Reading:
Lev Manovich, “The Language of New Media”. MIT Press. 1999
http://www.manovich.net/LNM/
PDF version available on his own website
http://www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf
pp. 43-44 “What is New Media?”
pp. 49-65 “Principles of New Media”
“The History of Interactivity I” session will explore the concept of “interaction” and how this has been transformed by the applications of modern technology. We look into artistic and design applications of interfaces and discuss the current states of digital media and emerging technologies. We will talk about the human-technology interrelationship and compare that with the artwork-spectator relationship.The session will provide a comprehensive overview of pioneering scientists and artist working in the field of interactive art and interface design.
The History of Interaction 1 Details »
Here are the terms and ideas that were discussed in yesterday’s recap session.
Benjamin, Adorno, Kittler
Aura, Perception, Reproduction, Marxism, Politics, Aesthetics, Temporality and Memory
McLuhan, Manovich
Extensions, Distance, Mediation, Addition, Prosthesis, Hot and Cool, Active and Passive Engagement. Subjective Engagement, Imagination, Interpretation, Information Flows,
(Analogue,Digital)-Data/information Ontologies Details »
Notes from today’s session on perception and consciousness right here: perception101.
Link for Diana Deutsch’s Audio Illusions, as well as Al Bregman’s site on Auditory Scene analysis.
Would be great to see your own references to works and illusion (op-art?) on your blogs or in the comments here.
Don’t forget that you have really super special sessions coming up!
Frankfurt school
Reinterpretations of marxist critical theory away from politics and in philosophy
Adorno’s aesthetics and the revolutionary potential of the avant garde as catalyst
Analysis of music, formal, structural complexity and high modernism
relationship to popular culture – its simplicity hinders the revolution
Benjamin
more situated in popular culture
Marxist tiers
Base and Superstructure
Base – material foundation
superstructure – transcendent ideological structure
Primacy in the base – the main driver
Superstructure changes happen more slowly
So mechanical reproduction has emerged (at time of Benjamin’s writing) as a means of production, but the true revolutionary potential of this in the superstructure has yet to be realised
Dialectics (Hegel)
Notes from today thanks to John O’Shea – cheers, because it’s hard for me to blog while I speak!
Theoretical Foundations 001: Atau Tanaka
Wednesday 7th October 2009
Slides from today’s lecture: why-theory200910.pdf
Housekeeping
- Aims
- Outline of syllabus
- By the end of this module students will…
technological and cultural background
advantages and disadvantages of digital media production methods
not pure positivism Details »
Hi all! WELCOME! A new term is upon us. We are very happy to have you all here, and are excited to see the work, relationships and ideas that will come out of our expanding family in the DM MRes!
For your info – we are running two core modules this semester and (a change from last year) they run concurrently, interleaved. That is, on Oct 7th, 2-5PM we have the first section of the DM THINKING class – which will look at issues in the production of interactive and experimental media works, as well as relevant cultural theory. The DM DOING module – a class where we teach and workshop softwares for the production of creative digital media works – has it’s first session in the same time slot on Oct 14th (both in Space 7, Culture Lab).
Also running this term is Stevie Ronnie’s Web and Interactive Narrative class – Thursdays, 11AM-1PM. Space 7.
As you were told in your advisement sessions, we will have infrequent but important ‘special sessions’ for topics that come up in your course. These will, as much as it is possible, be held in the 5PM-midnight (?) time-slog following the Wednesday sessions. So far we have ideas for an expanded discussion of intellectual property and copyright as it relates to students works, a session on music for new media, and a special workshop on OpenFrameworks. If you have any other ideas for issues you’d like to look at and discuss with the group please get a hold of Jamie (jamie.allen1@ncl.ac.uk), or leave a comment on this blog, post to your own blog – in short, get in touch.
More soon… and see you soon!
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