Reading 5: Coding The Infome: Writing Abstract Reality

I very much believe that coding and computing elements are part of the infrastructure and source in which environment takes place, as the article states, "abstract reality". In this created reality, pretty much anything is possible in terms of artificial life or any other data or coding visualization. It really is up to the "user" to create these worlds by manipulation of a system. The main goal is to explore possibilities and to use what we know in basic coding and to reach different forms of digital sequences to create ultimately a different view of what a set of instructions can make a system work.

Reading 5: Protocols

Everything, everyone, anything, and anyone is ingrained with a set of instructions to operate from the day it or they have come into existence. Otherwise without a set of purpose, there's really no point of that existence. As protocols are defined in the digital world as those instructions to exist or coexist, information can get passed on from one viewer to the next or a particular action can be executed on command.  Without the idea of protocols or the implementation of them, the machine is just a machine standing idle like a paper weight waiting to be used, to have purpose.

Reading 3: 4Chan and Social Media

{Due M, wk 5}:
Javascript Tutorial
"What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan", Brad Troemel
"Sociable Media" (PDF), Judith Donath
blog a response to these essays

4Chan -Brad Troemel

My Response:

My take from this is that all social existence are built on relationships between not just people but everything in and around people.  Those relateable things don't necessarily have a purpose or so as said an intent nor do they have to mean anything as in context. In terms of art, anything and everything can be considered art depending on the relations people have between what they perceive as art. 

Social Media-Judith Donath

My Response:

Social media can be a hindrance or advantage to certain individuals and I also believe that it is solely up to the individual when Donath explains at the end that observer is ultimately the bearer of his/her fate in fostering a world that they want to foster by understanding social media at it's core identity. As socially adept beings, humanity depends on communication to thrive, but depending on the individual is where the path is chosen to lead into doom or peace.

Reading 2 Week 3:

Database as Symbolic Form

I believe what this essay is trying to interpret is that technology is essentially a database with specific algorithms or rules that help relate a connection with knowledge and information. As far as the intricate details of the whole essay, I don't seem to follow. Maybe my state of mind is only a portion of what database symbolizes or perhaps that I'm only a portion of a database within this network of life.

Death of the Author

This essay realizes that words in language aren't just about who writes them but about who reads and and interprets those words. The author, I agree, is invisible now in written language of today. Most writing doesn't even mention anything about the author or his her background unless as a reader you search his name and read about the author specifically. Even then, what is written about the author could also be an interpretation formed by another reader or audience in relation to what they think the author is saying. In reality, the author is deemed to not exist but the death of him is up to imagination.

Reading 1 Responses

The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept

Response: 

Hypertext is simplified as exaggerated text in a sense that verbal and nonverbal communication can be formed non sequentially.  In terms of technology, forms of communication is limitless in that the power is really up to the person presenting and receiving the communication. That person will then choose a certain path or paths to relate or reiterate the information being passed from destination to destination. 

Hypertext Consciousness

Response:

The idea put in place is not of just one idea...as hypertext as explained in the previous reading by Roland Barthes, " text composed of blocks of words (or images) linked electronically by multiple paths, chains, or trails in an open-ended, perpetually unfinished textuality described by the terms link, node, network, web , and path".  This form is more of a visual representation of actual hypertext. Each link connects to another set of words which have more links residing within the sentences. And in some form or another the words relate to the concepts and ideas of what hypertext actually means and how it operates within a screen graphically and the mental impact it has on the viewer.