1) According to the text "Remediation" the author uses the phrase (in relation to Hollywood's use of computer graphics)
"remediation operates in both directions" - what is meant by this?
A:
users of older media such as film and television can seek to appropriate and refashion digital graphics,
just as digital graphics artists can refashion film and television. that both formats can be mix together
to be able to keep the old fachion way new.
2) What does Michael Benedikt, author of "Cyberspace the First Steps" introduction argue had happened to modern
city by the late 60s, having become more than 'a collection of buildings and streets'?
A:
The city itself just like the media were the same and would change in the same fasion, both would be cybernetically, and of buildings
that did riot resist television and telephones and air conditioning and cars and advertising but accommodated and played with them;
inflatable buildings, buildings on rails, buildings likegiant experimental theaters with video cameras gliding like sharks through a
sea of information, buildings bedecked in neon, projections, lasers beams
3) In his short story "Skinner's Room" William Gibson describes how Skinner watches a tiny portable 'pop-up' TV set.
What can skinner no longer remember? (remediation in relation to television as an idea is neatly summed up in this sentance!)
A:
He can't remember when he ceased to be able to distinguish commercials from programming.
4) Author of the famous pamphlet "Culture Jamming" Mark Dery paraphrases Umberto Eco and his phrase "semiological guerrilla warfare".
What does this mean?
A:would be mass subversion of advertising for more realistic graphics, products and their impact,
rather than the ones offered by the mass production of the big companies.
5) From Mark Dery's pamphlet, briefly describe "Subtervising"
A:
using any given adverstisemen and corrupt the plan or plot advertisers use in it, by changing their intent in ways to show
the real nature of the product or services offered.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
week 4 homework
SIDE
TOP
FRONT
PERSPECTIVEThe folloing can be either be for a movie or video game. there is a civilian relaxing in you house watching TV. all of the sudden he recievse a call from a unknown number. he decides to not answer the phone, five seconds later a red light appears on the screen of the TV and it explodes. the phone starts to ring again, he realizes is the same number. the person who speaks on the phone tells him " I have your head on my scope you better do as a say or I will blow your brains out".he is scared so he agrees. there is a Nuclear Bomb in the park across the street from you house, find it and deactivate it before it goes off in three hours.
he tells the guy on the phone he is not a nuclear engineer an it would be impossible for him to pull off the task. the guy on the phone replies. that he did not put the bomb there he only found it, but he cant deactivate it himself since the person who put the bomb there knows him and he is sitting in the park too. the task is to go to the park and strike a conversation with every single person in the park and found out who he is and the instruction or password to deactivate the bomb.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
week 3 homework
1) In Paulina Boorsooks Book "Cyberselfish" she contrasts the development of technologies that were group efforts
and thus stand in stark contrast to the myth of the lone 'hero' entrepreneur. Name two such more group-based technologies.
(Under the heading "Closer to the Machine")
a) CERN
b) opoen source computer movement
2) In the section labelled "Human, Too Human" Boosook describes one type of technolibertarian -
the "Extropians". What do extropians want or yearn for?
A: they want to find the key to unlocking the true human potential to become transhuman. they believe that science can
some day help them to be more than just simple humans and live for as long as they want. they are willing to go
far with their research even if it ment that they have to become part machine and part human to acchieve this goal.
3) In her film BIT PLANE, Natalie Jeremijenko describes Doug Englebart as being a pioneer - of what?
(view film via VIMEO link in separate post)
A:
HE was the pioneer for personal computing
4) In "Silicon Valley Mystery House" writer Langdon Winner compares the Silicon Valley to the Winchester Mystery House.
In what way does he consider them similar?
A:
the lay out of the cities in silicon valley are constructed in such a way the there is no way to tell where the each city ends
or beggins. there fore the sillicon valley technology empire seems like one huge antity without any differences from each other
due to the ongoing changes the valley has undergone and will continue undergoing as the industry grows.
just like the Winchester Mystery House sillicon valley atracts many people for one reason or other and has no end or form.
5) In Langdon Winner's essay "Silicon Valley Mystery House" he describes East Palo Alto as a very different kind of place from
areas such as upscale Stanford and downtown Palo Alto. What type of area is East Palo alto, "just across highway 101"?
A: he describes East PAlo Alto as a getto, in which choric poverty and unemployment among its black residents seems beyond remedy
6) In her Processed World article "The Disappeared of Silicon Valley" Paulina Boorsook's "Deep Throat"
(inside information source) describes some unpleasant realities of most Silicon Valley startups and how they end up. List two.
A:
1) they are not venture-funded and are not high tech, is also very difficult if they have bad managment
2) the oners of the start up companies are left in huge debt for varios reason. some of them even get a second morgage
on their own property to keep the company going, therefore get themselves even further in debt. and the relationship and within
their family membersdue to the ongoing struglle to keep the company.
7) What is the Long Now foundation and why was it formed?
A:
is a private organization that is trying to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution.
Its focus is to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's faster and cheaper mindset and to promote
slower and better thinking.The Long Now Foundation hopes to creatively foster responsibility in the framework
of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem.
8) In the documentary DOCUMENTARY - SILICON VALLEY - A HUNDRED YEAR RENAISSANCE (1997) Steve Jobs describes the joy
of successfully making "blue boxes" which let he and his friends make free phone calls. What aspect of this experience
does he say was so important to the creation of Apple computer?
A:
They felt the magic of being able to built such a magnificent device and have control of the entire phone network
in thw whole world. the power of the idea they had when they where building the blue boxes, gave him the confidence
that he and his partner could do bigger and better thingg, and with them influence the world.
9) List three aspects of the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - (see the "Our Work" section of their website)
A: A) educational activities which encrease popular understanding of the opportunities and clallenges by the advances
in computer technology
B) support litigation in the public interes to preserve, protect and extend the first amendment
rights withing the realm of computing and telecommunications.EFF fights in the courts and Congress to extend your privacy rights into the digital world, and supports the
development of privacy-protecting technologies. Donate to EFF to help support our efforts.
C) EFF fights to preserve balance and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies continue to empower
you as a consumer, creator, innovator, scholar, and citizen.
10) According to Richard Stallman's website, what is his status in relation to the social media site Facebook?
A:
not F'd you wont find me on facebook, he does not like social networks and he encourages people to not use them.
and thus stand in stark contrast to the myth of the lone 'hero' entrepreneur. Name two such more group-based technologies.
(Under the heading "Closer to the Machine")
a) CERN
b) opoen source computer movement
2) In the section labelled "Human, Too Human" Boosook describes one type of technolibertarian -
the "Extropians". What do extropians want or yearn for?
A: they want to find the key to unlocking the true human potential to become transhuman. they believe that science can
some day help them to be more than just simple humans and live for as long as they want. they are willing to go
far with their research even if it ment that they have to become part machine and part human to acchieve this goal.
3) In her film BIT PLANE, Natalie Jeremijenko describes Doug Englebart as being a pioneer - of what?
(view film via VIMEO link in separate post)
A:
HE was the pioneer for personal computing
4) In "Silicon Valley Mystery House" writer Langdon Winner compares the Silicon Valley to the Winchester Mystery House.
In what way does he consider them similar?
A:
the lay out of the cities in silicon valley are constructed in such a way the there is no way to tell where the each city ends
or beggins. there fore the sillicon valley technology empire seems like one huge antity without any differences from each other
due to the ongoing changes the valley has undergone and will continue undergoing as the industry grows.
just like the Winchester Mystery House sillicon valley atracts many people for one reason or other and has no end or form.
5) In Langdon Winner's essay "Silicon Valley Mystery House" he describes East Palo Alto as a very different kind of place from
areas such as upscale Stanford and downtown Palo Alto. What type of area is East Palo alto, "just across highway 101"?
A: he describes East PAlo Alto as a getto, in which choric poverty and unemployment among its black residents seems beyond remedy
6) In her Processed World article "The Disappeared of Silicon Valley" Paulina Boorsook's "Deep Throat"
(inside information source) describes some unpleasant realities of most Silicon Valley startups and how they end up. List two.
A:
1) they are not venture-funded and are not high tech, is also very difficult if they have bad managment
2) the oners of the start up companies are left in huge debt for varios reason. some of them even get a second morgage
on their own property to keep the company going, therefore get themselves even further in debt. and the relationship and within
their family membersdue to the ongoing struglle to keep the company.
7) What is the Long Now foundation and why was it formed?
A:
is a private organization that is trying to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution.
Its focus is to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's faster and cheaper mindset and to promote
slower and better thinking.The Long Now Foundation hopes to creatively foster responsibility in the framework
of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem.
8) In the documentary DOCUMENTARY - SILICON VALLEY - A HUNDRED YEAR RENAISSANCE (1997) Steve Jobs describes the joy
of successfully making "blue boxes" which let he and his friends make free phone calls. What aspect of this experience
does he say was so important to the creation of Apple computer?
A:
They felt the magic of being able to built such a magnificent device and have control of the entire phone network
in thw whole world. the power of the idea they had when they where building the blue boxes, gave him the confidence
that he and his partner could do bigger and better thingg, and with them influence the world.
9) List three aspects of the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - (see the "Our Work" section of their website)
A: A) educational activities which encrease popular understanding of the opportunities and clallenges by the advances
in computer technology
B) support litigation in the public interes to preserve, protect and extend the first amendment
rights withing the realm of computing and telecommunications.EFF fights in the courts and Congress to extend your privacy rights into the digital world, and supports the
development of privacy-protecting technologies. Donate to EFF to help support our efforts.
C) EFF fights to preserve balance and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies continue to empower
you as a consumer, creator, innovator, scholar, and citizen.
10) According to Richard Stallman's website, what is his status in relation to the social media site Facebook?
A:
not F'd you wont find me on facebook, he does not like social networks and he encourages people to not use them.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Dai 227 week 2
1) Why was the period at the turn of the 20th century so important?
A:
Because it was the beggining of modernism, the time when many inventors were able to give the world their inventions
which not only had a task of their own, but also they were able to be part of another task with other inventions as well.
in other words the technology in each invention could be conbined with others to create a new thing.
Example: a machine with a carrige would make a car, the light bulb and a car would make the car travel at night, and so on.
2) What aspects of the Data art movemement are important from the point of view of the rise of the computers
and digital visual media? (for example Marcel Duchamp's "readymades"?)
A:
copy and paste, data base
3) Name one aspect that links "The Man with a Movie Camera" with digital media according to Lev Manovich (ReadingsB)
A:
your able to turn effects into meaningful artistic language; film editing to construct an argument
4) What was 'constructivism'?
A:
Constructivism is a philosophy of learning created on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences and ideas,
we construct our own understanding of the world we live in. each of us crates our own rules and mental models,
which we use to make sense of our experiences. learning, therefore, is simply the way of changing our mental
models to suit new experiences.
5) Read pages VI (6) to XXII (22) of "The Language of New Media" in ReadingsB:
What does Lev Manovich suggest are the 'three levels' of "The Man with a Movie Camera"?
A:
the story of a cameraman,
the shots of an audience watching the finished film in a movie theater
and the film, which consists from footage recorded in Moscow,
Kiev and Riga and is arranged according to a progression of one day
6) Who first developed the idea of "Cybernetics"?
A:
Norbert Wiener
7) In "Computer Lib" Ted Nelson describes Hypertext as "Non SEQUENTIAL" writing (fill in the blank)
A:
Non sequential writting
8) (Lecture) why were transistors, even though 100 times smaller than vacuum tubes considered impractical for building computers in the 1960s?
A:
because it was very difficult to connect all of them together in one machine until they invented the integrated circuit
9) What was the name of the first commercial available computer (kit)?
A:
Altair 8800
10) Write a paragraph: visual and digital media change really fast. being able to figure out the way the human eyes see are the key to visual media and the way
it can harness the potential of the human eyes.
a long time ago we were able to see a 2d display in 3D by wearing stereoscopic glasses, it was the first attempt
to harness the way humans see the world. now days there are new ways to stereocopic 3D, now we don't need glasses to see
sterreotopic Footage. the technology is so advanced that the screen itself displays the footage in 3D by sending
an individual image to each eye of the viewer. in 20 years from now most of the visual media will be virtual and voiced command.
I picture the jetsons, when with the touch of a botton youc can video call anyone where ever they are instantly with a virtual
3d display.
A:
Because it was the beggining of modernism, the time when many inventors were able to give the world their inventions
which not only had a task of their own, but also they were able to be part of another task with other inventions as well.
in other words the technology in each invention could be conbined with others to create a new thing.
Example: a machine with a carrige would make a car, the light bulb and a car would make the car travel at night, and so on.
2) What aspects of the Data art movemement are important from the point of view of the rise of the computers
and digital visual media? (for example Marcel Duchamp's "readymades"?)
A:
copy and paste, data base
3) Name one aspect that links "The Man with a Movie Camera" with digital media according to Lev Manovich (ReadingsB)
A:
your able to turn effects into meaningful artistic language; film editing to construct an argument
4) What was 'constructivism'?
A:
Constructivism is a philosophy of learning created on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences and ideas,
we construct our own understanding of the world we live in. each of us crates our own rules and mental models,
which we use to make sense of our experiences. learning, therefore, is simply the way of changing our mental
models to suit new experiences.
5) Read pages VI (6) to XXII (22) of "The Language of New Media" in ReadingsB:
What does Lev Manovich suggest are the 'three levels' of "The Man with a Movie Camera"?
A:
the story of a cameraman,
the shots of an audience watching the finished film in a movie theater
and the film, which consists from footage recorded in Moscow,
Kiev and Riga and is arranged according to a progression of one day
6) Who first developed the idea of "Cybernetics"?
A:
Norbert Wiener
7) In "Computer Lib" Ted Nelson describes Hypertext as "Non SEQUENTIAL" writing (fill in the blank)
A:
Non sequential writting
8) (Lecture) why were transistors, even though 100 times smaller than vacuum tubes considered impractical for building computers in the 1960s?
A:
because it was very difficult to connect all of them together in one machine until they invented the integrated circuit
9) What was the name of the first commercial available computer (kit)?
A:
Altair 8800
10) Write a paragraph: visual and digital media change really fast. being able to figure out the way the human eyes see are the key to visual media and the way
it can harness the potential of the human eyes.
a long time ago we were able to see a 2d display in 3D by wearing stereoscopic glasses, it was the first attempt
to harness the way humans see the world. now days there are new ways to stereocopic 3D, now we don't need glasses to see
sterreotopic Footage. the technology is so advanced that the screen itself displays the footage in 3D by sending
an individual image to each eye of the viewer. in 20 years from now most of the visual media will be virtual and voiced command.
I picture the jetsons, when with the touch of a botton youc can video call anyone where ever they are instantly with a virtual
3d display.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
dai227 week 1
1) How was unique about Charles Babbage Analytical Engine, compared to his original Difference Engine?
A:
the analitical machine was developed to do many different task and it could also be programmable;
where as the difference engine was design to do only one task
2) What role did Ada Lovelace play in the development of the Analytical Engine?
A:
she was the person in charge of interpreting the analitical engine and she was called the first computer programmer
3) How was the ENIAC computer reprogrammed?
A:
was reprogram by people, meaning that people had to switch hundreds of cables and repluging them
into connecting two different parts of the machine.
4) Name an innovation that helped make programming faster post ENIAC (see ep. 2)
A:they used magnetic type for faster way to proses information. and created compueter languages
5) What is it about binary counting that makes it so well suited to computers?
A:
the binary system is based on only two numbers 1 and zero.
for engineers it was the simplest way to give something a task, it was either on or off
6) In what ways did UNIVAC influence the portrayal of computers in popular culture in the 1950s? Give an example. (see ep. 2)
A:
Desk set
7) Codebreaking required the automatic manipulation of symbols to unscramble messages during WWII.
What was the name of the rudimentary computer at Bletchley Park in England that unscrambled Nazi codes.
A:Colossus
8) Alan Turing who understood the implications of such machines later went on to describe them as_______ machines.
A:
Computer machines
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Write two paragraphs for each:
9) Describe when you first used computers and what types of tasks you performed on them.
A:
when I first used a computer was to get into the internet and listen to music,
I did not have any knowlege in how to use computers, so I did not have any other use for it.
I was somewhat intimidated by software in the computers, they had some many options and tools and I did not know how to use them.
later on I learn to do diffrent task with the computer and now I don't think I would be able do all the things tat I do without a computer.
from work to school, from school to enterteinment.
10) How restricted do you think computers are in terms of what they can do compared to how they are most often used?
A:
I don't think they are restricted to anything, in the hands of the rigt person
they can perform anbelievable tasks. nowadays the computers are mostly used for networking, entertainment,virtual worlds, tools.
computers are now used to do what humans used to do in person. they way we communicate today is widely done with computers. weither
is trhrough a loptop computer or a smartphone.
A:
the analitical machine was developed to do many different task and it could also be programmable;
where as the difference engine was design to do only one task
2) What role did Ada Lovelace play in the development of the Analytical Engine?
A:
she was the person in charge of interpreting the analitical engine and she was called the first computer programmer
3) How was the ENIAC computer reprogrammed?
A:
was reprogram by people, meaning that people had to switch hundreds of cables and repluging them
into connecting two different parts of the machine.
4) Name an innovation that helped make programming faster post ENIAC (see ep. 2)
A:they used magnetic type for faster way to proses information. and created compueter languages
5) What is it about binary counting that makes it so well suited to computers?
A:
the binary system is based on only two numbers 1 and zero.
for engineers it was the simplest way to give something a task, it was either on or off
6) In what ways did UNIVAC influence the portrayal of computers in popular culture in the 1950s? Give an example. (see ep. 2)
A:
Desk set
7) Codebreaking required the automatic manipulation of symbols to unscramble messages during WWII.
What was the name of the rudimentary computer at Bletchley Park in England that unscrambled Nazi codes.
A:Colossus
8) Alan Turing who understood the implications of such machines later went on to describe them as_______ machines.
A:
Computer machines
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Write two paragraphs for each:
9) Describe when you first used computers and what types of tasks you performed on them.
A:
when I first used a computer was to get into the internet and listen to music,
I did not have any knowlege in how to use computers, so I did not have any other use for it.
I was somewhat intimidated by software in the computers, they had some many options and tools and I did not know how to use them.
later on I learn to do diffrent task with the computer and now I don't think I would be able do all the things tat I do without a computer.
from work to school, from school to enterteinment.
10) How restricted do you think computers are in terms of what they can do compared to how they are most often used?
A:
I don't think they are restricted to anything, in the hands of the rigt person
they can perform anbelievable tasks. nowadays the computers are mostly used for networking, entertainment,virtual worlds, tools.
computers are now used to do what humans used to do in person. they way we communicate today is widely done with computers. weither
is trhrough a loptop computer or a smartphone.
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