Here's a demo entry to my blog
posted by Steve at 4:25 PM
I'm very much looking forward to the discussion of the second part of Bolter and Grusin's book-- there's a lot of fun examples in there, it seems to me. But I wanted to post here ("here" being my blog and the class mailing list) a cool link Bill sent on the history of computer graphics. It's at http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html Check it out.
posted by Steve at 3:02 PM
Ack! I've tried to post this message three times now! I think this time I'll do a little "copy/paste" before it goes all the way through...
I just heard about what I think would be an interesting book for this class the next time around-- at least as a "book report" and maybe as some reading to supplement other readings. To make my life easier, I'll cut and paste from the message I got:
Writing Machines, written by N. Katherine Hayles, and designed by Anne
Burdick, is the latest in the Mediawork Pamphlet series. Writing Machines
has already been hailed for its exploration of how literature has
transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of
print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse
sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.
Erik Loyer's delightful interactive, animated, WebTake, "Hollowbound Book"
has already been made available on the Mediawork site. It is now joined by
the Writing Machines Web Supplement, an extension of the book.
The Supplement includes an interactive lexicon linkmap, index, bibliography,
notes, and errata, and offers alternative mappings of the book's conceptual
terrain with functionalities unavailable in print.
Completing the cycle of remediation, the Supplement gives the user the
ability to customize his or her own copy of the book by providing Adobe
Acrobat .pdf files for each section, some of which are formatted in
"printer's spreads" that can be printed out, folded, and inserted into the
body of the book itself.
All this and more, including information on ordering the book and a
comprehensive interview with the author and designer is available at:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork
posted by Steve at 7:15 AM
Just checked in on two of the blogs in progress, and so far, so good. I'm missing one group (I'll have to bring this up in class tonight), but the two I have are indeed working in their respective blog spaces in ways that see to fit in with what I had in mind. To the extent I had anything in mind that was particular...
posted by Steve at 6:56 AM
