www.0100101110101101.org

0100101110101101.org is a nick name but also a web page for couple of artists using generative art.Check it!!!

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

ALife, A.I., Cyborgs