Theory Flash Back
1. from...........
2. to...............
- Lev Manovich. (2001) The Language of New Media, MIT press.
Human culture has been re-recording intellectual and optical world using digital data that lead to the formulation of digital databases; of sums of digital data. These databases are the output of this whole procedure but also become the basis of any further negotiation.
-Regis Debray, "What is mediology".
"What is mediology", http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/08/DEBRAY/12314
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3.(media)Tools affecting structures.(in both of theory and practice)
1. from...........
- M. McLouhan, “medium is the message”
- M. Castells, “the message is the applications of the medium”
- P. Virilio, “The Information Bomb”
- S. Sassen, “Global Networks – Linked cities”
- H. Bey, “The information War” – TAZ The Temporary Autonomous Zone”
etc2. to...............
- Lev Manovich. (2001) The Language of New Media, MIT press.
Human culture has been re-recording intellectual and optical world using digital data that lead to the formulation of digital databases; of sums of digital data. These databases are the output of this whole procedure but also become the basis of any further negotiation.
-Regis Debray, "What is mediology".
"What is mediology", http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/08/DEBRAY/12314
"The question that rises seems to be not the way that media affect culture but the interaction between culture and new media."
"...mediology does not claim the status of a science, and even less something "new" (because it is not in itself a discovery). Despite its root, mediology is not a sociology of media systems under another name. Mediology would like to bring to light the function of medium in all its forms, over a long time span (since the birth of writing), and without becoming obsessed by today's media."
"It is still the fuzzy zone of interactions between technology and culture, or the interferences between our technologies of memorizing, transmission, and displacement, on the one hand, and our modes of belief, thought, and organization, on the other."
"Our interest, then, does not concern an object nor an area of the real (e.g., the media), but the relationship between these objects or these areas."
"The field of functional correlations is broad and various. One can stick to the interaction within a system [intrasystème]….. interaction between systems [intersystème]…..(and) the interactions across systems [transsystèmes]."
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3.(media)Tools affecting structures.(in both of theory and practice)
-Common Codes 0,1
-Data
-Data
-Digitalization , analogue media transform to discrete data
-Software, algorithms, recorded actions (!)
-Narrative Databases, Dynamic output
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3b. in terms of Semiotics:
---output is not a Dyadic Sign ( Signifier - Signified ), F. Saussure
---output is a (dynamic)Triadic Sign (Object - Representamen - Interpretant), M. Pierce
- Object (Object, Concept, Idea) Sth that can be encoded in a sign
- Representamen , the sign that denotes the object (Saussure's Signifier)
- Interpretant , the meaning obtained by decoding the sign
-immediate, the denotative meaning
-dynamical, the meaning actually produced by the sign
-final,the meaning produced if the sign were properly understood
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-Narrative Databases, Dynamic output
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3b. in terms of Semiotics:
---output is not a Dyadic Sign ( Signifier - Signified ), F. Saussure
---output is a (dynamic)Triadic Sign (Object - Representamen - Interpretant), M. Pierce
- Object (Object, Concept, Idea) Sth that can be encoded in a sign
- Representamen , the sign that denotes the object (Saussure's Signifier)
- Interpretant , the meaning obtained by decoding the sign
-immediate, the denotative meaning
-dynamical, the meaning actually produced by the sign
-final,the meaning produced if the sign were properly understood
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Possibility of algorithm improvisation! Curatorial Suggestion.
Algorithms are designed in order to work as specific mechanisms that reproduce specific tasks using the numerical codes. The way that they proceed with the tasks is predefined and scheduled. The mechanism they suggest is dynamic but stable. The algorithmic formulations are specific and possible to lead to multiple narratives via exploring the database.
How would be the possibility of an algorithm that would be designed in an “unconventional” way; of an algorithm that would be scheduled to alter its structure; to interfere into its own function? That would mean that the input of the software would get through a possibly unpredictable procedure with unpredictable output. The possible products would form a new idea of databases and moreover of narratives. It would be a different kind of data processing in which data would acquire a new identity. A new data status where data output might be itself a narrative; a correspondence to the software decision of acting
Algorithms are designed in order to work as specific mechanisms that reproduce specific tasks using the numerical codes. The way that they proceed with the tasks is predefined and scheduled. The mechanism they suggest is dynamic but stable. The algorithmic formulations are specific and possible to lead to multiple narratives via exploring the database.
How would be the possibility of an algorithm that would be designed in an “unconventional” way; of an algorithm that would be scheduled to alter its structure; to interfere into its own function? That would mean that the input of the software would get through a possibly unpredictable procedure with unpredictable output. The possible products would form a new idea of databases and moreover of narratives. It would be a different kind of data processing in which data would acquire a new identity. A new data status where data output might be itself a narrative; a correspondence to the software decision of acting
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