Christopher Mead
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05 October 2011, 12:56 am
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tags: aesthetics, Android, Apple, behaviour, blackberry, danah boyd, features, frequency, interface, ios, Mobile technology, seesmic, sociology, technology, twidroid, twitter, twitter apps, wohn
The Question
Academic research on Twitter has been rife since it hit off in 2006, with significant focus on two topics in particular- that of privacy and identity. Much that has been written by scholars of Twitter has generally been cautious, negative (labeling privacy as a problem) or positive in the sense of data accumulation (i.e what can be inferred…
A fellow MoM’er already wrote a good review on the PhD thesis What You See Is What You Feel by Koert van Mensvoort. Read the MoM review here and download the full book here. I would like to give an extension to this review with my own thoughts.
Although the thesis is done at the Technical University…
Nicola Bozzi
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07 September 2010, 2:32 pm
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tags: aesthetics, ethics, format, infrastructure, interface, metadata, metaphysics, politics, strategy, tactics
This is the conclusion of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Click to read the first, second, and third part.
ABSTRACT [Or download the full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Conclusion]
In the conclusion of my work I give a few examples of how new stereotypes can be created and spread…
Nicola Bozzi
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06 September 2010, 2:27 pm
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tags: aesthetics, body, comedian, gangster, hipster, infrastructure, interface, metadata, metaphysics, nerd, politics, scale, structural, textural
This is the third part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Check back to read the first part and the second part.
ABSTRACT [Or download the full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Figures]
In this chapter I define four main types of metadata and four stereotypical figures to exemplify each of them…
Nicola Bozzi
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05 September 2010, 4:42 pm
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tags: aesthetics, Alexander Galloway, Bas van Heur, David Harvey, Gilles Deleuze, heterotopia, infrastructure, interface, matteo pasquinelli, metadata, metaphysics, Michel Foucault, Pierre Levy, politics, protocol, XML
This is the second part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Here’s the first part.
ABSTRACT [Or download full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Channels]
Starting from the example of urban simulacra (in form of virtual environments, mapping applications, or augmented reality renderings), in this chapter I introduce how a virtual infrastructure actualizes into…
Starting from today, I will publish my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface on this blog. Since nobody wants to read some 70 pages in blog format, I’m attaching it in four separate PDFs introduced by as many short abstracts. So here it goes, I hope to receive some feedback.
INTRODUCTION – ABSTRACT [Download full PDF:…
… Interface and media may be two names for the same thing. From the viewpoint of McLuhan and the concept of re-mediation, media are merely containers that encapsulate other pieces of media. This can be seen as an “onion” model of media. Media themselves are then intrfaces: through the containment concept it becomes the means by which the encapsulated media can be extracted from the layers. Interfaces/media are the point of friction, of agitation between layers.
… Interfaces are an ‘outside’ that possess the ‘inside’, “a fertile nexus” that has its own autonomy and represents an area of choice. …
Nicola Bozzi
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14 September 2009, 7:52 pm
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tags: book, greeklish, interface, language, linguistics, review, romanization, software, study, the multilingual internet, translation, werner herzog, where the green ants dream
In one of the last scenes of Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) an Aborigine stands up in a court room to speak up against some mineral excavations happening in a sacred tribal ground. The judge asks for a translation, but nobody can provide it. The man is called “the Mute”, being the last living…
To start off 2008 I’d like to show you some interesting videos by Johnny Chung Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student on human computer interaction. He uses the remote from the Nintendo Wii to create spectacular user interfaces. Three videoclips after the jump…
