Read article in communication+1: special issue on new materialisms Title: Whither the Material in New Media Studies? Abstract: This article addresses how new media theory has been founded on an endemic exclusion and erasure of a concept of the material, because of the ascendancy of a concept of the virtual in theoretical and historical research
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The Origin of the See-Through Graphical Interface
Read article in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Title: The Origin of the See-Through Graphical Interface: World War II aircraft gunsights and the status of the material in early computer interface design Abstract: This article defines a new category of media technologies, the See-Through Graphical Interface, which are interface devices that
Rupture of the Virtual (book manuscript)
A book project on cultural practices that open encounters with the material as interventions into the virtual condition. It addresses subjects ranging from alternative histories of the computer interface to site-specific media artwork. (Chapters forthcoming.)
“The Origin of the See-Through Graphical Interface: World War II aircraft gunsights and the status of the material in early computer interface design” (Under review) Abstract This article defines a new category of media technologies, the See-Through Graphical Interface, which are interface devices that superimpose computer-generated graphical information into a user’s field of view. This
Security Gate 26.11 – full written description
Security Gate 26.11 – full written description
Published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (2011). http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/proceedings
Ties that Bond: The Occupy Community
In and around the Occupy movement I’ve been talking with people about communities, communes, communalism, commons, communism, etc. The conversation I attended the longest at A Public Thing // Financial Engagement (an event organized on November 5 to promote public conversations on the Occupy movement in the Twin Cities) was about the possibility of forming
