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Week4: The Database As Symbolic Form
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 8]:
Reading:
The Database as Symbolic Form by Lev Manovich
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9812/msg00041.html
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9812/msg00042.html
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 10]:
Present: Eric Patrick Basil
Soft Cinema by L. Manovich
http://www.manovich.net/cinema_future/toc.htm
terms_essay (pdf)
/ also see references
References/ Recommended Reading
You should be able to define the terms we use:
database, narrative, algorithm, determinism (ie. techno determinism), ontology, interface, paradigm, montage
Where do you encounter databases in your daily life?
What were cultural expressions predating the database?
Who coined the term "computerized society"?
What example does Manovich give when he reverts Jorge Luis Borges story about the map being equal to its territory? Manovich claims that today there are examples where the index, the map is much larger than the territory.
References:
Olga Lialina's "Anna Karenina Goes to Paradise"
http://www.teleportacia.org/anna/ (some links are dead)
George Legrady
http://www.georgelegrady.com/
The Anecdoted Archive
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/anecdote/Anecdote.html
Mediamatic
http://www.mediamatic.nl/index_e.html
History of Amazon.com
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:2gsiPpNUiLgJ:www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/amazon.pdf+history+of+the+company+amazon.com&hl=en
Waxweb by David Blair
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wax/
Phpmyadmin
for example:
on molodiez server
Related to Montage:
"The Birth Of A Nation" by D.W. Griffith (1915)
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