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“In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities is completely replaced by textual formations written and compiled by Dirk Groeneveld. Travelling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning. The handlebar and pedals of the interface bicycle give the viewer interactive control over direction and speed of travel. The physical effort of cycling in the real world is gratuitously transposed into the virtual environment, affirming a conjunction of the active body in the virtual domain. " |
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"What happens when you have documents that could never be accommodated by a handheld device?...Looking at the role of the body and the role of the body in technology--and how technologies are mediated through embodied experience--and so on--we talked a great deal about how the whole body, and not just the eyes and the hands, [is] a reading apparatus..." --From Anne Balsamo's talk at the Transliteracies Conference, June 2005 |
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The sequence illustrates that which Richard Grusin and Jay Bolter have called REMEDIATION, the cycling of different MEDIA through one another. These processes are going on all around us, including computer screens being arranged to look like television screens, television screens with multiple windows made to look like computer screens, print books mimicking computers, computers being imaged to look like books. --From N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines |
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"To change the physical form of the artifact is not merely to change the act of reading (although that too has consequences the importance of which we are only beginning to recognize) but profoundly to transform the metaphoric network structuring the relation of word to world" --From N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines |
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"Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view." --From N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines |
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"Responsible thought cannot remain confined within the walls of the academy but must take to the street. In simcult, the street is the media. There is no reasonable alternative to electronic discourse." --From Mark C. Taylor and Esa Saarinen's Imagologies: Media Philosophy |
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"As I see it, the reaffirmation of the affective body as the "enframer" of information ocrrelates with the fundamental shift in the materiality of media: the body's centrality increases proportionally with the de-differentiation of media...Simply put, as media lose their material specificity, the body takes on a more prominent function as a selective processor of information." --From Mark B.N. Hansen's New Philosophy for New Media |
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"In these [Shaw's computer-aided works] works, the body, rather than being assimilated into the deframed image-space, stands over against a now virtualized image-space, and thereby acquires a more fundamental role as the source of the actualizaiton of images. If the corporeal and intellectual processing it performs still functions to "give body" to the image, it does so not by lending its physical, extended volume as a three-dimensional screen for the image but rather by creating an image-event out of its own embodied processing of information." --From Mark B.N. Hansen's New Philosophy for New Media |