Group Presentations GROUP MEMBERS IRNA JULI MEGA JIAZE

Group Presentations GROUP MEMBERS: IRNA JULI MEGA JIAZE DI TING YUAN JIAYUAN CAI

Topic-- Human and Interface Media � The Language of New Media ---Lev Manovich � Chapter 2 ---The Interface

Definition of Key Words � Interface Media (pp. 63) Interface like a tool to connect a wide range of media. If you are using the Internet, you can access everything like music, video, images, etc. � Cultural interfaces: people are now interfacing to digital culture. Cinema, the printed word and HCI(human-computer interface) make the largest contribution to the cultural interfaces.

Selected Resources & Why � Why the Interface Media is important? (pp. 65) The interface comes to play a vital role in the information society, people need a tool to help them load their favorite applications. Nowadays, In the society work and leisure activities not only increasingly involve computer use, but they also converge around the same interfaces. The task applications (spreadsheet programs, word processors, etc. ) and leisure applications (computer entertainment) need the uniform platform for users to manage them.

what questions does it raises? � Why the human-computer interface has become a crucial semiotic code? (pp. 66) � For instance, if a user input some data to the computer, the Internet may guide them to different versions according the data they have inputted.

what questions do you want ask your peers? � What kind of stuff can be showed on screen and what the difference between today and the past? (pp. 68) Static or dynamic images can be showed on screen. Today the more high-definition screen(4 K, 5 K) allows more details and fluent scene in front of users, and even the immersive feeling can be created by special screens. Instead of showing a single image, computer screens can show different windows at the same time. Moreover, because of VR, sometimes we are able to have true feelings without leaving home. In the future, the screen may be more mobility and wireless, like mobile phone. However, in homes or offices, the screens of computer and television may become giant screen into wall-size.

Artworks 1 � Pockets Full of Memories --- George Legrady � 1. Explain how these are DIY. Audiences contribute their date to construct the collection that is to access audiences’ data in a museum. The exhibition's goal is to present a real time construction of an archive/collection of objects to represent the audience visiting the exhibition. The audience creates the content of the artwork through contributing digitised images of objects of personal value that they carry with them the day of the museum visit. � 2. How these are “Expanded Media”? Audiences can clearly see what the connection between the museum and all of the audiences. Computer are used as a medium. � 3. What technology was used. Computer programming methodologies. It is like self-organising map and camera tracking algorithms.

Artworks 2 � Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project ---Hasan Elahi � 1. Explain how these are DIY. Elahi had made his life like an open book. He had showed his life detailed by using surveillance art. The self-tracking system that constantly and publicly presents his exact location, activities, and other personal data. � 2. How these are “Expanded Media” Tracking system that allow people to present exact location � 3. What technology was used. Surveillance Art is a kind of technology try to record people’s behaviors. SA can be used in a wide range of areas like short films, architecture, security and enforcing laws.

Bibliography: � Elahi, H. The Orwell Project. http: //www. elahi. umd. edu/documents/installations_sundance. html � Legrady, G. Pockets Full of Memories. http: //www. fondation- langlois. org/html/e/page. php? Num. Page=329 � Lev Manovich. (2001) The Language of New Media. Vol. Leonardo. Cambridge, Mass, London. MIT Press.