User:Michael Murtaugh/What is XPUB?

Thinking about sketching a history of the XPUB course, including it's pre-history as Media Design + Networked Media. With some key texts along the way, traces of which are perhaps already in the wiki!

Such as Matthew Fuller's The Impossibility of Interface, including Haron Farocki's video work I though I was seeing convicts.

I would also touch on Femke Snelting's Awkward Gestures (linked from nice page with layout tools)

While a familiar gesture is one that fits perfectly well in a generally accepted model, an awkward gesture is a movement that is not completely synchronic. It’s not a countermovement, nor a break from the norm; it doesn’t exist outside of the pattern, nor completely in it. Like a moiré effect reveals the presence of a grid, awkward behaviour can lead to a state of increased awareness; a form of productive insecurity that presents us with openings that help understand the complex interaction between skills, tools and medium.

and perhaps Florian Cramer's essay on the What is Post-Digital as it's part of Aymeric Mansoux's formulation of XPUB.

Proponents of ‘post-digital’ attitudes may reject digital technology as either sterile high tech or low-fidelity trash. In both cases, they dismiss the idea of digital processing as the sole universal all-purpose form of information processing. Consequently, they also dismiss the notion of the computer as the universal machine, and the notion of digital computational devices as all-purpose media.

From AM, maybe something along the lines of How Deep is Your Source (link from AM's monoskop page).

Re-reading TIOI... thoughts of example of outlooks hot-air balloon and the Boeing 737 fatal software glitches.