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- Analyze how the video, Animator vs Animation (http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097) embodies Manovich’s five principles of new media and Peter Lunenfeld’s concept of “unfinished’. Please do support your points and conclusions with evidence from the video and from the digital mediaworks included in Sorapure’s article about Manovich’s five principles, and from your own experiences of digital composition. (750 words, or more)
- Peter Lunenfeld writes,” Cybernetics is the alchemy of our age: the computer is the universal solvent into which all difference of media dissolves into a pulsing stream of bits and bytes. It is a curious thing that a calculating machine we forced to become a typewriter only a decade and a half ago now combines the creation, distribution and spectatorial functions of a vast variety of other media within one box – albeit tied into a network” (pp. 7 - 8)
Through your readings this semester, what are the implications for our social, cultural , economic and political lives of the change in the role of the networked computer that Lunenfeld notes above? (You should be considering here the theories of Mosco, Williams, Mitchell, and any other authors we’ve read and discussed in the class so far.) (750 words, or more)
- What did you expect to learn in this learning community, and why? What has proven the most significant learning for you in this learning community, and why? How would you like to expand your learning in these fields?