January » 2007 » meanderings

binary katwalk |01 bin/kat| : open – network – gallery| binarykatwalk.net

Innovative 1994 R&D GUI programming environment that attempted to emulate physical systems, emphasizing: directness, uniformity and modelessness.

PDF: “Self: The Power of Simplicity” David Ungar and Randall B. Smith, 1994

Self: The Movie

Tracing the Dynabook

“Desktop computing and multimedia were not first conceived as tools for office workers or media professionals— they were prototyped as “personal dynamic media” for children. Alan Kay, then at Xerox’ Palo Alto Research Center, saw in the emerging digital world the possibility of a communications revolution and argued that this revolution should be in the hands of children. Focusing on the development of the “Dynabook,” Kay’s research group established a wide-ranging conception of personal and educational computing, based on the ideal of a new systems literacy, of which computing is an integral part.”

TeleRead

The Institute for the Future of the Book if:bookblog

Writing the Digital Life

“WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience. We talk about writing and reading in the context of ‘new and old’ media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.”

Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry

“Books were still governed by the old rule,

Born of a belief that visible beauty

Is a little mirror for the beauty of being.”

Theories of Media Change: Understanding New Media – Garnet Hertz

“Towards the end of his life, McLuhan and his son Eric embarked on a project to update the 1964 Understanding Media in response to his critics’ requests to provide a solid basis for his drastic and metaphoric claims; the result was Laws of Media: The New Science , published by his son eight years after Marshall’s death. Laws of Media defines a general theory of media change, constructing a tetrad model with four characteristics of media-in-transition: extension, obsolescence, reversal and retrieval.”

10:02am January 27th, 2007,
I listened to the following two generative audio sites at the same time:

The Mockingbird Project
&
Variations VII: FishNet by Mobius

Nicolas Clauss

Atlas of the Brain

Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu interview by Chic Thompson

“Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being. Only then can a person come up with the best ideas.”

Alexis O’Hara

“Writings of many sizes and varieties.

Fresh product according to availability.

No-carb enterbrainment.

Suitable for all all levels.

Satisfaction is your choice.”

Guillaume Apollinaire, La colombe poignardée, 1918

Culture Shop : Adbusters : TV B-Gone

E.A.T. 1966

“Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), founded in New York in 1967 by artists Robert Whitman and Robert Rauschenberg and engineers Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer, was the premier art-and-science organization of its time.”