MachineMachine /stream - tagged with interface http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=703/ctheorynet Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface http://t.co/t4bOSiYv Norm Friesen – khaoid (khaoid) http://twitter.com/khaoid/status/192507088491126784 ]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:29:31 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=703/ctheorynet We live in a "more-than-human" universe http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-08-metzger-en.html The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting mankind to nature and the rest of the world, this perspective consistently perceives humans as relays in a dynamic mélange of relations that can be more or less open, inclusive, and stable over time, but without any preordained knowledge about how these relations may develop or change. ]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:09:31 -0700 http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-08-metzger-en.html Re:Thinking Games http://www.furtherfield.org/researchpublicatios/artists-rethinking-games/artists-rethinking-games-wwwfurtherfieldorg Artists Re:Thinking Games | Editors Catlow, Garrett, Morgana | only a few left http://t.co/SmCu4kxu ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:50:56 -0700 http://www.furtherfield.org/researchpublicatios/artists-rethinking-games/artists-rethinking-games-wwwfurtherfieldorg The interface and the machine http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/?p=261 Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense quantity of interfaces that daily calls for our attention, I will try to examine the relationship between the machine and the interface in a media archaeological perspective, that will, hopefully, point towards the physicality of the machine, in contrast to the symbolic ordering that is prevailing in the current understanding of interface.

In the introduction to this conference it is being stated that “in the case of… ]]> Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:53:12 -0700 http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/?p=261 The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4zYzG8bHA5oC&lpg=PP1&ots=G_V3DQxB0x&dq=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of%20a%20Scientific%20Revolution&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of by Niklas Luhmann

The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means of another distinction which then assumes the function of a guarantor of reality. Another way of expressing this is to say the operation emerges simultaneously with the world which as a result remains cognitively unapproachable to the operation. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that the connection with the reality of the external world is established by the blind spot of the cognitive operation.… ]]> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:00 -0700 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4zYzG8bHA5oC&lpg=PP1&ots=G_V3DQxB0x&dq=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of%20a%20Scientific%20Revolution&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30food-t-000.html?ref=magazine There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic.

Back in the ’90s, I used to read a handmade magazine called 8-Track Mind. In every issue it ran something called “The Eight Noble Truths of the 8-Track Mind.” Truth No. 1 was, “State of the art is in the eye of the beholder.” No. 5 was, “ ‘New’ and ‘improved’ don’t necessarily mean the same thing.” And No. 8 was, “Innovation alone will not replace beauty.”
… ]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 04:23:00 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30food-t-000.html?ref=magazine 10/GUI http://vimeo.com/6712657/10gui

10/GUI

Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction.

This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers.

There's more information at 10gui.com .

Cast: C. Miller

]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:00 -0700 http://vimeo.com/6712657/10gui This Is The Only Level http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-friday-game-this-is-the-only-level This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes, past a switch that will raise a door, and deliver him safely to the exit. And that’s it. The twist is that, once you have initially completed the task, you’ll find you have to do it again, guiding the elephant over the same pits and the same spikes, and past the same switch that raises the same door, the difference being that this time the game’s mechanics have changed… ]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:54:00 -0700 http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-friday-game-this-is-the-only-level Experimental Game: Shadow Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5DjyoDObA ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:37:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5DjyoDObA Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world. The problem is that abundant resources, like computing power, are too often treated as scarce. Consider another example: Wired's IT department used to send out occasional emails telling employees it was time to "delete unneeded files from the shared folders"—their way of saying they had run out of storage room on the servers. Because we're good corporate citizens, we all dutifully scanned through our files, deleting those… ]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:37:00 -0700 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for art production and curating? http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model be applied to other products such as artworks or even exhibitions? In how far does the open source model differ from other forms of artistic collaboration? Is there a new role model for both the artist and the curator in the future? Which (economic) value and impact has expertise in open source production? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend? How could institutions and organisations respond to… ]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 09:25:00 -0700 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php