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Usually, an interface is understood as a technological artefact optimized for seamless interaction and functionality. However, the interface also draws upon cultural and artistic traditions, and plays an important role in our culture as art, entertainment, communication, work and businesses

The interface is a “multimedia that integrates sound, images, text and interaction in feedback-loops,” where the registering (or generating) and representing (or visualizing) of data occurs simultaneously.

§1 The interface connects functionality with representation

§2 The interface is displaced and repressed

$3 The interface is an ideological construct

§ 4 The interface has traditions and genres

§5 The interface is not (just) a surface

§ 6 The mechanisms of the interface constitutes the sensible