User:Inge Hoonte/nov 14

Animate the terminal

Use the terminal as a screen or display for moving image by playing with the background image. Replace the background with a really narrow but super long jpg consisting of several still frames, placed underneath each other. Narrative develops from top to bottom. When you run a script over it, the background becomes an animated gif. Experiment with speed. How many frames flash by per second? Depends too on what you run on the page. Fill it with x's, a letter, a textual narrative? If you program an error, the terminal itself can produce a rhythmic sound. This happened the other day when I was playing with the clapping music, but I haven't been able to re-enact/replicate/reproduce the mistake.

• As always with learning new programs, you have to learn the language, the logic. With some people you have to watch your mouth, certain expressions might hurt them. Other people you might want to flatter or bring a smile to their face with a compliment. In terms of programming, and coding language, the punctuation is very important. One program needs ; where another program would find that too much decoration. Over time you learn its rigors, its riches, how to talk to it, how to charm it.

The sky above that time I remember you

Automated browsing on google maps. Experimented previously with studying the sky above my friends' houses on google maps. Created screen captures of several angles of sky above them. In animated form, it is like standing on the street, looking up, moving in a circle in one spot, staring at the sun, and the digital glitches that exist here and there. Unlike the real sky, and the sun that can be blinding, this sun is bright but not bright enough to hurt your eyes. The sky stops and starts, in rigid lines, based upon the camera and its placement, the original angles used. Google maps is not designed to stare at the sky, the sky real estate is undeveloped there. What can happen in this space? Is it simply a place to get lost, to be captivated by the blues, whites, soft yellows, and greys? Or is there opportunity to develop an alternate dimension, to insert memories that have been formed under that very same sky? Playing with collective "you"? Or individual stories, interpersonal experiences.

The sky above my roommate and her dog who likes to get his belly rubbed (the dog, not the roommate), Crown Heights, Brooklyn

The sky above the bike shop where I worked, Park Slope, Brooklyn

If you look closely (below is a close-up), you can see the lines where several camera angles come together to shape the exact middle of the image.

Narcissus

Staring into the water, in love with himself. Who's inside the water, the terminal? Is it me? Is it you?

Cropped out is Echo, his longing, but left unanswered admirer. In this analogy, water as computer, I guess Echo would refer to someone trying to get your attention while you're on the computer, phone, etc. The bigger outside world vs inner realm?

• This notion of talking to your computer, befriending the machine, developing a relationship.

• Computers Are People, Too: A New Perspective of Human-Computer Interaction "This study extended the computers as social actors perspective and further asked the question: What kind of relationship people have developed with their computers. An online survey was conducted with 86 college students participated. The findings indicated that people might develop diverse relationships with their computers. The computer-computer relationship types identified in this study were: social relationship, working relationship, acquaintance, mixed relationship and enemy. The natures of these relationships were: warm, love-hate, neutral and cold. People also developed emotional ties with their computers. The interactions between human-computer relationship type, human-computer relationship nature, computer use and computer activities were examined. The finding suggested that human-computer relationship type and nature do influence computer use. This study proposed a new perspective on human-computer interaction. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed."

• The Matrix

Computer programmers and hackers living within and outside the System. Falling in love. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28The_Matrix%29

• Somewhat unrelated. In 1983, [ http://books.google.nl/books?id=McPHBI0ghCIC&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=computer+human+inside+relationship&source=bl&ots=bGd3oy3RQQ&sig=FrQF-Xm2tVoFJ5bUKMKZUFrsgus&hl=nl&ei=sAngTMqTO47qOaPf7foO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=computer%20human%20inside%20relationship&f=false Macintosh] saw women as new users, a new market, who had to be researched and designed for.