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Saturday, December 28, 2002
I handed in my project on time (actually 1½ hours early, which never happened before), feeling relieved as ever. This project have been a bit hard for me, since it's the first practical thing I've ever done... You'll have the link, when I get my grade on the 10th of January, where the oral defense takes place (shiver, tremble, shiver). The semester project got the name: "The Librarian", and pin points (I hope) the problems of: 1) interaction for the sake of interaction (form of l'art pour l'art), where I strongly recommend taking back the possibility of non-interaction when it comes to story telling in a digital environment. And no, it's not 'just' a movie then - the computer media feed us with a cultural context that is very different from when we watch tv and movie. Hence we see a non-interactive story in the computer media differently. 2) narrativity in a digital environment - what happens when a story is transfered from it's 'book-media' to the computer media. I elaborate on linear and additive forms of story telling. - added is a little Flash-thing, where the Borges story: "The Library of Babel" is (partly) told for the computer media as the digital story: "The Librarian". So now the project has inscribed itself in the series of the other Tommy-projects (all in danish for now, sorry): "Intentional communication on the Internet" (about the problem of using the classical text-theory with a fixed sender and receiver - solution: letting sender and receiver mixed into one person), autumn 1999. "The photographic distribution of un-visible objects" (about the problem in photograophic theory when the photographed object is not visible to the human eye - f.ex. the earth, the genom, our own face, the golden plate on Pioneer 10), autumn 2000. "Glucosis - when science use pictures" (about the cultural structures in the use of scientific pictures in the scientific context), BA-project, autumn 2000. "New optics for the use of webdesign analysis" (about the need for including animation in webdesign analysis), autumn 2001. "Alternate Reality Gaming - in the border district between fiction and reality" (about the new genre in online gaming), spring 2002. ---- Christmas was lovely. I spent it with my family in the sub-urbs of Copenhagen, and got some very nice presents (books, CD, money, shirt, spice jar). In Denmark we celebrate Christmas and do the gift exchange at Christmas Eve, which may seem weird to some of you, but that's tradition up here :-) We actually don't do much on the 25th other than sleep and maybe attend a family lunch. I will celebrate New year in Copenhagen at my good friends Ulrik and Lasse. I'm supposed to bring snacks and drinks ingredients for the Queen's annual speech. Hmmmmmm.....any good ideas out there? (All suggestions will be published here for mutual inspiration). Uh - I got a late christmas gift from myself: N. Katherine Hayles "How We Became Posthuman". The book looks REALLY interesting, and I hope she will provide me with some insights to the subject of my thesis - f.ex. how we transcend the virtual media with our non-physical abilities. Philip Glass also got a renatissance on my CD-player - "Songs from Liquid Days", which I got from Lisbeth some years ago. It's on repeat, and it makes me tinkle....:-) All for now - I will return to my laundry and to the construction of my semester project defense (yuck!) Happy New Year to all, if I'm not back before! *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:24 PM ---ooo--- |
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