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Week1: Introduction, Overview
- Day 1 [Tues Jan 18]:
- Reading: Syllabus
- Present: Introduction to the course
- Activity:
- About you
- Syllabus
- This syllabus is subject to change, check weekly
- How to print readings (Lockwood)
- Image Log
- Bibliography
- Day 2 [Thurs Jan 20]:
Screening:
Lost, Lost, Lost by Jonas Mekas (1963), 158 min
only part of this film will be screened
Read:
Database Aesthetics: Of Containers, Chronofiles, Time Capsules, Xanadu, Alexandria and the World Brain by Victoria Vesna
http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/vesna_essay.html
References/ Recommended Reading
On "Lost, Lost, Lost"
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Mekas was one of the inventors of the diary form of filmmaking. Lost Lost Lost comprises fourteen years of filming, from his arrival in America as a political refugee to the New York counterculture of the 1950s. 'In these six painful reels I tried to indicate how it feels to be an exile, how I felt in those years. They describe the mood of a Displaced Person who hasn't yet forgotten his native country but hasn't yet gained a new one.'
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Questions for the Vesna text:
What are political/ ideological aspects of databases and archives?
How does the organization and retrieval of information impact the way we learn?
Describe Buckminster Fuller's Chronofile project.
To what time period do you date back the first attempts to catalogue knowledge and museums?
What creates the need for new organizational systems established by libraries and museums?
Who was Vannevar Bush and what did he recognize in relation to information storage?
Describe Vannevar Bush's Memex.
What does Alan Mayne's idea of the World Brain encompass?
Who coined the term hypertext and hypermedia when and how was it described?
What was the goal of the Great Library of Alexandria?
What did you learn about the Corbis Image Library?
What do know about the Internet Archive by Brewster Kahle?
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