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How can we broadly define Technology?
How can we define digital technology?
How can we broadly define Media? How can we define new media?
new media represents a convergence of two separate historical trajectories: computing and media technologies.
A brief history of new media Computer
Babbage & Turing Code Algorithm
Internet Connectivity
‘world wide web’ Content management/development Ubiquitous delivery
Web 2.0
Is photography static? Eadweard Muybridge 1878
Horses William Dickson and the Kinetoscope
Bitmap grids: scanning a 3D object [demo] Walter Benjamin: If an image can be
reproduced easily, where is the art? Digital imaging
Non-linear narrative Science as art? Time-based work a related part of how media
has changed due to computing technology
Marshall McLuhan
From Understanding Media (@0:41) The medium is the message?
Lightbulbs and video games I Haz Internetz? What is the message of Second Life?
Language of New Media<Lev Manovich>
1. Numerical Representation Mathematical in nature, manipulated by
algorithms In short, digital media becomes programmable.
2. Modularity LEGOs
3. Automation Halo
4. Variability Walter Benjamin
5. Transcoding Cultural layer vs. computer layer