User:ThomasW/An encyclopedia of media objects

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SSpeculative media object

Photography ?

Mold of media objects?

--- Object vs attribute negative space shape subjectivity maker-object-reader container symbols digital physical finite concrete interaction physical object object of dis sire

Thing or Object?

Make the digital physical?

Artefact? Atonomis and sculptural Functional and interactive? Part of a system, flow?

Not form

Western , they are all construed Non Western, they are

Encyclopaedia from a NON Human perspect How will machine dream up a ecolopedia

Remains of the physical world in the digita??? Folders, Floppy disk,+++++

Object – academic Thing – common

Colloquial – Technical

“Things are energy fix in space”

“Exhibition of failed promises” Mecluan is a extention of man”

Objects

Family Photo Album

The family photo album have been a important part of a family since the mass production of film.

“The family photograph functions primarily as a record as visible evidence that this family exist” Page (Joanne, (2011) p35 )

" When we document something in the real world, we make fixed, permanent, immutable records of it. But computer documents are volatile, ephemeral constellations of data” (Stephenson, 1999, Page 63)

How does the feel of a physical photo book be if the images are glitches?

VHS Video Tape

The VHS tape is now a outdated storage medium for movies. How do we treat home movies that are stuck on VHS tape? What did we get promised, they last for a life time? But few people have a VHS player no more

CRT Screen

How does the CRT screen fit in now in a modern time with LCD and LED screens.

• Magnet on CRT
• CAN Car by Nam June Park

HARD-DRIVES

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Prototypes

soon

Photo-album

Idea about having a glitched physical photo album..

Paper Hard-drive

Idea about printing out computer and electronic storage formats on paper to see how the juxposition off printed storage medium next to real version..

Encyclopaedia of disaparing media objects

A collection of real and unreal and speculative media storage objects.