0100101110101101.org is a nick name but also a web page for couple of artists using generative art.Check it!!!
Thursday, 29 November 2007
www.0100101110101101.org
0100101110101101.org is a nick name but also a web page for couple of artists using generative art.Check it!!!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Generative, Robotic and Participative Arts
Last week's lecture was talking about the new way of doing arts by using digital technology such as generative art.
But what is generative art? Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes.
The generative art covers all kinds of art.Music,movies, performance.... There are lot of artists that they have used the possibilities of generative art.
But what is generative art? Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes.
The generative art covers all kinds of art.Music,movies, performance.... There are lot of artists that they have used the possibilities of generative art.
Monday, 26 November 2007
Hypertext
In this lecture we talk about hypertext but what is hypertext? According to Dr. Stewart's notes hypertext is" Texts composed of blocks of text and the electronic llinks between them".[Blackboard Academic Suite]
Hypertext is flexible tool in our hands. It has links and information which they never end. Book has boundaries. it has a start and it has a story which is usually already defined by the author. On the other side hypertext is a "book" with no end. Each author add something everytime and by that way the "stoey never ends. You have links, hyperlinks and information which lead every time in a different place. Readers can search and find information without reading all the book.
I believe that hypertext is not killing the author. We have again the dillema "Old" or "New" Media. I believe that books and hypertext can "live" together. We could say that have the improvement of "old" media. Hypertext is giving you the opportunity to find easy information, make us authors because we can write and tell our opinion but on the other hand book will always have its "magic". The smell of a new book, the feeling of pages in our hands and even the cover of the book couldn't never replace them with anything.
Hypertext is flexible tool in our hands. It has links and information which they never end. Book has boundaries. it has a start and it has a story which is usually already defined by the author. On the other side hypertext is a "book" with no end. Each author add something everytime and by that way the "stoey never ends. You have links, hyperlinks and information which lead every time in a different place. Readers can search and find information without reading all the book.
I believe that hypertext is not killing the author. We have again the dillema "Old" or "New" Media. I believe that books and hypertext can "live" together. We could say that have the improvement of "old" media. Hypertext is giving you the opportunity to find easy information, make us authors because we can write and tell our opinion but on the other hand book will always have its "magic". The smell of a new book, the feeling of pages in our hands and even the cover of the book couldn't never replace them with anything.
Thursday, 15 November 2007
The Commercialization of the Network
Internet in our days is becoming very important tool day by day. Through the technological improvements we are now able to buy or sell things through internet. Sites such as Amazon or Ebay can offer us a huge variety of products. I believe that the commercialization of the network give us the oppurtunity to make purchases independently from our home or country. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity of comparing prices, searching for the latest models. Companies have seen the big profit which exists in internet and they have already moved in this era. For that reason we have all these ads or pop ups in our computers advertising hundrents of products. The problem is i believe for the customer. How is possible to minimize as much as possible the number of stupid ads that he receive but on the same time to buy the things that he wants from internet?
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0?
According to Dr. Stewart's notes "“Web 2.0 is a term you love to hate or hate to love but either way, you'll know you'll get folk's attention by saying it.” [found at Blackboard Academic Suite]
I believe that Web 2.0 is one more technological improvement in the era of internet. I agree that it brought a range of different functions such as the blogging but i can't see it like big discovery. In the era of technology and especially computers i don''t think that we have to have any time new definitions because... oups we have Web 3.0. I use also typical web 2.0 sites such as Youtube, Facebook but i see them as tools which are usefull for me either for communications with friends or entertainment and news.
I think that the existence of blogs which are provided news and bloggers who are taking the place of journalists has something to tell us about the quality of the news. People are no longer satisfied and they want something alterantive but also accurate in order to inform themselves. it is the need which creates blogs. Need for accurate news, need for socialization among people....
Personally, as i mentioned in a previous post i filtered my news. The site that i use mostly for my informing is : ((i)) Indymedia Athens
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
The Emerge of News In the Age of Computers
What is news?
According to Dr. Stewart's notes news can be defined as "New information about a subject of some public interest that is sahred with some portion of the public" [found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
In my opinion news are important information for a specific group delivered as fast as possible through all the possible mediums. In our world speed is the winner and as far as news concerned the first who will be delivered the message is the winner. In our days we have lot of ways to learn about the news. Personally, i don't believe what i see or what i hear for the first time especially news which some times are not totally true. I believe that all of us have to filter the information-news that we get because journalists lot of times are making "mistakes" by giving news. Moreover, many times we have seen news which are showed as news but unfortunately we have propaganda in different ways. This is more often, especially in our days, where mediums are under the hands of few people and governments.
A very good weapon i believe is that we can check and double check the news which we are receiving. Through personalized mails, audience can choose the specific sources of news who wants to receive and believes as accurate. Moreover it's easy in our days to check the news through internet.
According to Dr. Stewart's notes news can be defined as "New information about a subject of some public interest that is sahred with some portion of the public" [found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
In my opinion news are important information for a specific group delivered as fast as possible through all the possible mediums. In our world speed is the winner and as far as news concerned the first who will be delivered the message is the winner. In our days we have lot of ways to learn about the news. Personally, i don't believe what i see or what i hear for the first time especially news which some times are not totally true. I believe that all of us have to filter the information-news that we get because journalists lot of times are making "mistakes" by giving news. Moreover, many times we have seen news which are showed as news but unfortunately we have propaganda in different ways. This is more often, especially in our days, where mediums are under the hands of few people and governments.
A very good weapon i believe is that we can check and double check the news which we are receiving. Through personalized mails, audience can choose the specific sources of news who wants to receive and believes as accurate. Moreover it's easy in our days to check the news through internet.
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Creating Artificial Life
American scientists claims that he created artificial life in his lab in California. Find more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange
Monday, 29 October 2007
The body, the mind and the computer
I believe that such issues and subjects are difficult to understand them but also to explain them. Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligent, Robotics are a big dilemma for me. I believe that we advantages and disadvantages. I agree that all these factions will be very helpful to humans (medicine, transportation, education) but on the other hand, could raise important issues such as moral and legally as well.For example, who would be responsible for the death of a cyborg or are we gonna considered them as human beings. Finally, i think that it's a very sensitive issue which needs lot of attention because if we take as paradigm movies such as "The Matrix" or "A.I" then we can understand that some times reality from virtuality are not so far...
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Monday, 22 October 2007
Vitrual Reality???
We can see that we have virtual worlds as games but also as a community...
The most well-know game is World of Warcraft . World of Warcraft or "WoW" in user's language is a virtual world game which you have to finish some tasks in order to upgraded your character, to keep him alive.
Birth and Death of Cyberculture
Sometimes is funny to think that from something small can come out something big and innovative.
In 1984 William Gibson introduced the term of cyberspace (from cybernetics and space) in his science fiction book "Neuromancer". But what is cyberspace???
According to Dr. Stewart's note cyberspace is:
"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...". [found at Blackboard Academic Suite]
In my opinion cyberspace is a parallel "world" which runs and "lives" not with the same elements as our world but in different way, more liberal. In the same time it use and needs elements of the real world in order to run.
A very good example, in order to understand cyberspace and the parallel "world", is the movie "The Matrix" A world in which you cannot decide for anything because everything is already fixed from programs and on the same time there is the parallel world in which, you decide for your own life and in the same time you have to separate your mind from your body.
In 1984 William Gibson introduced the term of cyberspace (from cybernetics and space) in his science fiction book "Neuromancer". But what is cyberspace???
According to Dr. Stewart's note cyberspace is:
"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...". [found at Blackboard Academic Suite]
In my opinion cyberspace is a parallel "world" which runs and "lives" not with the same elements as our world but in different way, more liberal. In the same time it use and needs elements of the real world in order to run.
A very good example, in order to understand cyberspace and the parallel "world", is the movie "The Matrix" A world in which you cannot decide for anything because everything is already fixed from programs and on the same time there is the parallel world in which, you decide for your own life and in the same time you have to separate your mind from your body.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
"New"&"Old" Media.Is any difference?
In this lecture we tried to understand if there is any difference between "new and "old" Media.
Since last year, when i was studying MA Marketing Communications i had also come across with the same dilemma.Which was the right media to use and which was the most effective for each campaign. "Old" or "New" Media? I don't put labels "old" or "new" when i am using the Internet or radio. I only see their influence to me and their usefulness that will provided me. I agree with the "process of socialisation".
"The media are commonly perceived as a form of socialisation. The experience of living in the specific style of industrial capitalism that we do (what is referred to by Anthony Giddens as 'Late Modernity'), has seen a decline in the importance of those features of life that were seen to give meaning and shape to our lives; tradition; the bounded geographic community; religion etc. In their place has arisen new forms of identity and meaning. The media is typically seen as one of these new forms of meaning. It is seen as a unifying force that allows experiences to be shared by millions. The media are seen to provide a sense of commonality between people. It allows us to experience the same things even though we might live miles apart…The media allow many millions of people to understand the world in the same way." Dr. Stewart's notes [found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
At the end of the day we don't have "old" or "new" media but how usefull were for us and that they have almost one purpose: to help people to cumminicate among each other without boundaries.
Finnally, i believe that everything has a start meaning that "new"media is the continue of the "old media. They are the technological improvements of "old" media. Finally, i believe that we don't have to find the difference between "old" and "new" media but to find the common elements which will help us to find more uses of media and to explore the new boundaries that are opened every time that an improvement is coming in a media or everytime that there is a combination of them by creating something new and innovative.
Since last year, when i was studying MA Marketing Communications i had also come across with the same dilemma.Which was the right media to use and which was the most effective for each campaign. "Old" or "New" Media? I don't put labels "old" or "new" when i am using the Internet or radio. I only see their influence to me and their usefulness that will provided me. I agree with the "process of socialisation".
"The media are commonly perceived as a form of socialisation. The experience of living in the specific style of industrial capitalism that we do (what is referred to by Anthony Giddens as 'Late Modernity'), has seen a decline in the importance of those features of life that were seen to give meaning and shape to our lives; tradition; the bounded geographic community; religion etc. In their place has arisen new forms of identity and meaning. The media is typically seen as one of these new forms of meaning. It is seen as a unifying force that allows experiences to be shared by millions. The media are seen to provide a sense of commonality between people. It allows us to experience the same things even though we might live miles apart…The media allow many millions of people to understand the world in the same way." Dr. Stewart's notes [found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
At the end of the day we don't have "old" or "new" media but how usefull were for us and that they have almost one purpose: to help people to cumminicate among each other without boundaries.
Finnally, i believe that everything has a start meaning that "new"media is the continue of the "old media. They are the technological improvements of "old" media. Finally, i believe that we don't have to find the difference between "old" and "new" media but to find the common elements which will help us to find more uses of media and to explore the new boundaries that are opened every time that an improvement is coming in a media or everytime that there is a combination of them by creating something new and innovative.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Lease Your Body
A new way to advertise..... You can rent your body for advertising purposes. You will have a temporary tattoo in order to advertise a product.
More information in www.leaseyourbody.com
Thursday, 11 October 2007
What do we mean by Media and Cyberculture?
I believe that we cant' find an accurate definition about what is media. On the other side there are some elements which can help us to define what is media. According to Dr. Gavin Stewart’s notes:
"Classic 20th century discourse on the media focuses our attention on broadcasting and the mass media. It analysized the 'media' in terms of producers of the media (e.g. institutions like the BBC), texts (e.g. TV Sit-coms) and audiences. This approach has meant that 'the media' have been defined as being synonymous with television, radio and newspapers etc. This approach quite rightly focuses on such issues as means of production, governance and regulation as important aspects of modern life." [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite]
In the same time as Dr. Stewart mentioned in his notes in the first lecture we have some questions rising through this approach and there are some gaps that they need to be filled.
Moreover, the rising of computer and internet technology and the study of Internet has lead us to enter a new era and the term "New Media"
I believe that we can't have a "correct" definition of Media and to be able to answer the question "what is media?". Moreover, i believe that the era of Media isn't an era that is not developing. Every day we have technological improvements which help us more in our lives but not to define "What is Media". I don't believe that we would be able to define specifically the term Media. On the other side we can study and learn from them important things such us the power of the Media, the limits of using them, the ethical questions that maybe rising by using media.
CYBERCULTURE
According to the notes Cyberculture "it can be thought of as the social and cultural effect of the interaction between humans and digital devices such as desktop computers, servers and mobile phones in a myriad of material, social, cultural and political contexts". [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
However it is not a simple subject....Lot of researchers have tried to approach it through different angles.
I believe that Cyberculture is not only about a computer or a network but a very interesting subject with roots to every science which is waiting from us to explore it.
"Classic 20th century discourse on the media focuses our attention on broadcasting and the mass media. It analysized the 'media' in terms of producers of the media (e.g. institutions like the BBC), texts (e.g. TV Sit-coms) and audiences. This approach has meant that 'the media' have been defined as being synonymous with television, radio and newspapers etc. This approach quite rightly focuses on such issues as means of production, governance and regulation as important aspects of modern life." [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite]
In the same time as Dr. Stewart mentioned in his notes in the first lecture we have some questions rising through this approach and there are some gaps that they need to be filled.
Moreover, the rising of computer and internet technology and the study of Internet has lead us to enter a new era and the term "New Media"
I believe that we can't have a "correct" definition of Media and to be able to answer the question "what is media?". Moreover, i believe that the era of Media isn't an era that is not developing. Every day we have technological improvements which help us more in our lives but not to define "What is Media". I don't believe that we would be able to define specifically the term Media. On the other side we can study and learn from them important things such us the power of the Media, the limits of using them, the ethical questions that maybe rising by using media.
CYBERCULTURE
According to the notes Cyberculture "it can be thought of as the social and cultural effect of the interaction between humans and digital devices such as desktop computers, servers and mobile phones in a myriad of material, social, cultural and political contexts". [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
However it is not a simple subject....Lot of researchers have tried to approach it through different angles.
I believe that Cyberculture is not only about a computer or a network but a very interesting subject with roots to every science which is waiting from us to explore it.
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