Week Two #ededc

Week two continued my investigation of the apparent and the existent. Core course readings in metaphor and cyberculture, complemented by my own readings in Postmodern / Subculture, continued to engage my interset in, and identification of digital artifacts. This investigation has taken me from the identification of existent cultural artifacts represented visually in the digital domain (Manet), to the search for artifacts that are unique to the digital domain that are not existent. The ‘questions’, What is unique to the digital domain? And What is textural about the digital domain? I feel are key in understanding artifacts that represent and define digital cultures, including digital leraning cultures.

What is unique to the digital domain is the ability to juxtapose media (MultiModal) possibly leading to digital ethnography. A move away from existent artifacts to define cultures, to a less apparent audio/visual ‘amalgamation’ of meaning (in the digital domain) to identify cultures, may prove valuable to my continuing investigation.

Week two ended in collaboration with other course members, and the reduction of the existent and the apparent to a single colour. My final post of week two extended this reductionist concept to an investigation into just how the colour RED maybe reformed with the digital domain.

(this must have a lot to do with Mirroring psychology)