Manovich 2

Manovich begins with the search through history of the "invisible effects"...from the effect of movement itself to better and better ways to display those effects of movement. Music videos were the experimentation ground floor while video games seem to have perfected reality. And loops begin and end with substance through the force of circumstance and necessity.
I love best, of course, that the photographic and the graphic met again on the computer screen and now the "avant-garde" are again "ironically resurrecting dead media". Well put.
Media translation is where the old becomes new and the new becomes old and something cool or beautiful or relevant is born "again" in between. Ha! Warhol was right.

Manovich pt 2 - Lacey Biernacki

 

If you look back on humanity's technological progress over the past 20 someot years it is absolutely insane how far we have come. In video games we've gone from simple picture based point-and-click adventures like Myst to highly detailed and extremely realistic romps on alien planets ala Halo and Mass Effect, not to mention terrifyingly realistic war simulators like Call of Duty. In regards to movies try watching early 90s films with heavy special effects compared to anything that has come out this year (Transformers, Godzilla, Edge of Tomorrow). The CGI in those early 90s movies is almost laughable now (Jurassic Park still seems to hold up though). The dawn of the Internet has radically changed humanity for the better I'd like to think (though sometimes internet trolls and 4chan would beg to differ). To quote Manovich, "To use a metaphor from computer culture, new media transforms all culture and cultural theory into an 'open source.'" He couldn't be more correct. With how everyone can be connected all over the globe at anytime with our technology is mind boggling and how new media has developed and evolved is nothing short of inspiring.

Manovich Part 2 - Whitney Ratliff

One of my most earliest memories from when I was a kid was the last time I played this game. In the late 90’s, I thought of this game as state of the art and considering how far video games have come from then, this was simply a prelude to far more expansive set of “interactive videos”. The puzzles were what really drew me with this game which was fun and of course made me feel like a genius, especially when my older brother couldn’t even figure out the simplest tasks. 

This history of Moving Image from as early as the Kinotoscope to the introduction of QuickTime in 1991 and so on, moving image is a technological development that replays the emergence of cinema. We think of moving image as video and movies, but really it is literally much broader than that. It is not just video work but can extend further into interactive games or even earlier, the Zoetrope can be labeled as an early form of GIF art that loops an image. Even if it is still images within a spinning device, it is still giving the illusion of moving as it loops continuously until forced to stop. 

my thoughts in bullets

• Manovich part 2
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• the music video (emergence)
• cd rom and the cinegratographic
• the point and click (just wasted 20 minutes looking up nancy drew pc games) there were cookies and now all my ads are for nancy drew.
• I should start gaming more (oculus rift- spatial experience, stanley parable- game theory, portal-multiplayer)
• strategy>> amnesia as learning through narrative. implied narrative through problem solving/puzzles.
• loop as a narrative engine
• porn peepshow loops (noted) gifs
• mobius house: space as a narrative, days as a loop
• tango: https://vimeo.com/90339479
• now you can get a tamagotchi on your phone>> the app is free what is the desire to control anothers life when you have your own to manipulate?
• Why is this an obsession? do we even really need to control ourselves.
• loops as co-existing temporalities
• the micro and macro narrative of spatial montage
• temporal vs spatial structure

• Olga Lialina very interested in her work since I saw it in  my intro class. it is very interesting and useful to imagine the web as a location for work but also as a medium itself to be used in term of expanded cinema. that is how ingestion of medium now exists.
• Interested in how this space can be expanded within experience: newhive.com >>> Internet as medium!

• Youngblood part 2
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• piratebay.se >>how is the internet being free
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial >> see how it isn't being free.
• should we expect freedom in virtual reality when it doesn't explicitly exist in physical reality?
• the monetization and of this realm reflects the control in the other.
• think: Orwellian thought crime } you can be as double unplussed as you want about it, but it's totes legit rare, lolz ((my phone knows to capitalize Beyonce. Beyonce is capitalized))
• Internet crime = real crime. Caught on tape is caught in the act.
• How can the internet be utopian when we don't live in a utopia?
• To quote Alejandro Borsani "The internet is about 95% porn, 4% stupidity, and 1% something that may be remotely interesting."
• It exists on a utopian platform covered in the truth that our collective consciousness is full of bullshit.
• What are we as artists going to do about that?

google: challenge

Youngblood and internet

 Basic tv channels  have always been a free service. If a person bu ys the equipment to receive the information, then the information was sent for free. When the broadcasting switched to digital, you could even get a free voucher for a converter box to pick up the digital tv channels. Why is tv free? Because everyone should have access to the news and current events? Could internet also be seen as a necessary means of sending information ?should anyone who buys the equipment get internet for free? We should consider who in America right now lives with no internet access. Also why aren't newspapers free? Sale off internet services pulls in a lot of money, which some of us used to improve our infrastructure. I imagine free government internet would be slow as Shit, encouraging people with the money to do so to upgrade to a service they p ayed for

Youngblood Response

I find this ironic that with the internet came these two videos which are completely contradicting:

One of Obama supporting free internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYGF6Tixvc

The other stating that he wants to take control of the internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKV3Uy9AzE 

Revolution, Youngblood Style

Well this idea is already known to us. We are slaves to "the man". The corporate, state, media driven man that "manufactures our consent to be oppressed" to quote Youngblood. His solution is using the same tools to fight back. Language--blunt, "we all get it" language globally expressed . ( visual language is of course "our language" in common )
"Self expression becomes common sense" he says when you believe everything that is being "sold" to you in sound bites from whoever...even history class teaches us the approved versions or "speak with one voice" rather than the many views needed to think for oneself .
This Thursday,  Scotland votes Yes to be their own country, to be free and break from the "United" Kingdom. The U.K.'s -"Better Together" campaign needs a No vote.  I will through the internet- join the fight and vote Aye!  That revolution started with music not guns.  ( of course it will still end up being all about who controls the money ).

wow, now Youngblood and Manevich seem to both be talking about 'aesthetic strategy'  :o !