Category: Research

Mobile exercise # sharing dinner and stories of exchange students

Oh gosh!!! We finally finished this “impossible mission”.   For using this adobe connect, we spend 15 minutes to find the link ; it’s difficult even at the beginning~~~ There are  our tasks’ content : Tommy wants to communicate when running ; I want to cook my dinner simultaneously   First thing to overcome , Tommy is in the outside , but… Read more →

Research Critique V: Jennicam(1997)

  Like famous movie “The Truman Show” , Jennifer Ringley exposes her true life into everyone’ eyes for 8 years . Originally ,Humans  use webcam to document , make available their working process; but some artists try to  make people think about the question or ironically undermine notions of it,as  Jannifer . PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS WAITING FOR REAl LIFE TO START , JENNIFER RRINGLEY ,1997 With… Read more →

Research Critique IV: Desktop Theater,Alexei Shulgin, Desktop Is, 1997

  “desktop is your window to the digital world desktop is your first step into virtual reality desktop is a reflection of your individuality desktop is your everyday visual environment desktop is an extension of your organs desktop is the face of your computer desktop is a question desktop is the answer” –Alexei Shulgin, Desktop Is, 1997   So many… Read more →

RESEARCH CRITIQUE III: GLOBAL GROOVE , NAM JUNE PAIK

Why I show you the clip of the Matrix , because after GLOBAL GROOVE & Virtual  Bodies , it reminds me of the media theory :hyper-reality   The concept most fundamental to hyperreality is the simulation and the simulacrum. The simulation is characterized by a blending of ‘reality’ and representation, where there is no clear indication of where the former stops… Read more →

Research Critique I: Robert Whitman, The American Moon, 1960

       Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often surprising interaction of film, lights, sound, live performers, props, and objects that take on a life of their own create a dense visual, non-narrative dramatic structure. we can find that his works with static background  and… Read more →

Open Source as Culture (critique)

      How might the open source system of sharing and developing software serve as a productive model compared to proprietary forms of commercial software development?       As the article mentioned, the emergence of open source breaks the rule of commercial activity (intellectual -property right / copyright ) &  the existed information source。 However , how can… Read more →

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