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    see: http://machinemachine.net/open-media What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to devise ways to maximise or even increase that redundancy.

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    see: http://machinemachine.net/open-media What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to devise ways to maximise or even increase that redundancy.

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    Errors in Things (Online Version)

    Diunggah oleh

    Daniel Rourke
    see: http://machinemachine.net/open-media What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to devise ways to maximise or even increase that redundancy.

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    Errors in Things

    and
    The ‘Friendly’ Medium

    Daniel Rourke
    machinemachine.net/open-media
    Errors in Things
    Media:

    In communication, media (singular medium) are
    the storage and transmission channels or tools
    used to store and deliver information or data. It is
    often referred to as synonymous with mass
    media or, but may refer to a single medium used to
    communicate any data for any purpose.

    Source: Wikipedia.org
    Open:

    That which is not closed;


    accessible;
    unimpeded;
    as, “an open gate”.

    Source: Wiktionary.org
    Use as verb:

    How do we open media?


    Socrates thought writing was CLOSED

    1. Inflexibility of the written word


    B.S. Johnson, Albert Angelo (1964)
    Socrates thought writing was CLOSED

    2. Destruction of memory
    1st Folio (Henry Folger Collection) 
    Collected works of Shakespeare (1623)
    Socrates thought writing (& painting) were CLOSED

    3. The loss of control (authority)


    William Hodges,
    View in Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky Bay
    (New Zealand, 1776)
    How do we open media?
    1. Media is equally about content and form:

    Great art knows the limits of a form and uses it TO ENHANCE the content

    2. Whether a media is open or closed is apparent only from particular perspectives:

    Authority is relative / intention is irrelevant

    3. Therefore, all we can do is try and MAXIMISE potential openness (noise and excess):

    MORE layers of paint,


    MORE smudges in the margin,
    MORE spatial components to the book
    The ‘Friendly’ Medium
    UBUWeb: http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html

    Alvin Lucier, 
    I am Sitting in a Room (1969)
    How do we open (new) media(s)?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEQZreQ2zQ

    (Team from) Uni of North Carolina,


    Building Rome on a Cloudless Day (2010)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY

    Christian Marclay, The Clock (2010)


    A case study: Social Video
    YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook etc.

    1. Inflexible / ‘Thingness’

    - ‘Original’ work becomes a (digital) representation


    - Authors become online identities

    2. Destroys some pre-determined ‘value’

    - The frame in cinema is lost to Digital Compression


    - The physicality of a film-reel (interface editing)

    3. Authority / Control

    - YouTube has rights to the work


    - Everyone has access to the work
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0

    www.ontologist.us, Video Room 1000 (2010)


    How do we ensure
    a media/medium is ‘friendly’?
    “…it can be a shock to remember that for
    information to exist it must always be
    instantiated in a medium...”

    Katherine Hayles, How we Became Posthuman(1999)


    machinemachine.net/open-media

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