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.