empyre Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12
“The evidence now seems unmistakable: reading extensively on the web has strong neurological consequences. To sum up this research: web reading catalyzes greater pattern recognition, increased spatial facility, and greater flexibility in noticing and responding to different information flows. It also leads to a distracted kind of reading in which (compared to print) information is not processed as fully, remembered as long, or integrated as much into one’s existing mental schemas (held in long term memory). … evidence suggests that the low-level activities of Web reading (clicking links, navigating websites, etc.), small as they are, nevertheless increase the cognitive load and therefore decrease the effectiveness with which information can be processed. ”
TOC is a multimedia epic about time … produced as an interactive DVD
Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films. “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”
“Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers.”
(photo by yhancik)
“Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.”
Media Art History. Summer 2000, RUDOLF ARNHEIM (b. 1904 – d. 2007)
