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Artifacts unique to the digital domain?
What are the artifacts that are unique to the digital domain that are not existent?Classification/Categorisation of digital artifacts must start at anything that is not singularly a replication of the existent, or an amalgamation of existent artifacts – kind of replicating / creating identity and spectacle (?). Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and [...]
Tears in Rain
Metaphorically ‘Tears in The Rain’ juxtapositions humanity with the machine. The metaphor of the Dove symbolising what is positive in humanity as Nexus flies through the air, the realisation of memories lost, an affirmation of the existent gone.
Week One #ededc
Week one has been spent reforming my blog, reading and responding to #ededc week 1/2 themes. My initial response has been to make an attempt to understand just what digital cultures are, that way it should be possible to understand how learning cultures manifest in the digital domain. To start this journey I felt it [...]
Categorising Digital Artifacts
I accept that ‘cultural artifacts’ are objects that have been created to help classify and define human phenomena, including individual and group identity (?). In my previous post I discussed art in relation to the Church (to some extent), so classified Cultural artifacts with relation to religion. How then do I begin to classify / [...]
Why object construction?
Linking ‘object construction’ (Jonathan Sterne, The Historiography of Cyberculture) to cultural artifacts in the digital domain. My previous post discussed the relationship between the apparent and the existent, with Berger telling us that a painting ‘a physical cultural object / artifact’ is an affirmation of the existent. Now, if I’m correct Sterne (2006) introduces us [...]
Something Has Changed
“We Live Within a Spectacle of Empty Clothes and Unworn Masks” (John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket, p.12) Just started to read John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket. The book (not surprisingly) resonates for me with the beginning of #ededc, our initial core / secondary readings and film fest! Empty clothes and [...]
A Little About Myself
I started my career as an illustrator/designer way back in the 80′s working in print media (none digital age). I then moved into multi-media production and design in the early 90′s producing and designing interactive CD Rom, some very early corporate interactive learning materials, one notable project was Flash Masters 2000, before moving on to [...]
