A Rant About "Technology" // Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Technology is the active human interface with the material world."technologies are what we can learn 2 do
- simple things can be technologies > maybe the word is overused/ to general to even mean anything"hi"-tech
My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be? // Laurel Schwulst
- website "duality they're both subject and object at once." > YOU CAN BE TWO THINGS AT ONCE
- websites are being overtaken by big coorporations > need 2 work 4 ppl rather than being taken over by big corps.
- websites are ALIVE / can be anything > it was made 4 sm more than it is being used 4 now > many small creations to create a big change
- "I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfill our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisons." - Tim Berners-Lee
A Handmade Web // J.R. Carpenter
- handmade > by hand... more love?
- online websites can be akin 2 handmade print media > full of life, full of love / care
- manual labor involved in composition > readers become writers
- now every website is so commercialised > fast pace
- "slowness / smallness as a form of resistance"
Hello World // Taeyoon Choi
- handmade > hands on > see how everything fits together
- "The first computers were human." > human computation
- human flaws = camputer flaws
- computers use 0 and 1 to represent everything > we make them special w/ interface
- abstraction/repetition
- a city 2 a computer > inhabit them similiarly > the web as a home, a place for you and me > to make/remake a space
- "we don't hace to live in completely walled gardens if we don't want 2" -aidan
we are locked into ecosystems thru subscription services
A Friend is Writing // Callum Copley
- dot-dot-dot ellipises make us feel less alone
- forces you to slow down but also takes things away from your grasp > discomfort in waiting?
- all apps are becoming 1 bc they are copying eachother - social media
- proffessional / personal lines blurring > through tech
The Web's Grain // Frank Chimero
- "the wonder I felt was diminished by experience"
- are we working against the web?
- responsive design
- edgeless > web
- making something 4 digital media > considerations of physical/digital
- the web has more flexible dimensions than print
The Poetry of Tool // Mindy Seu
- slow growth & slow death > "is the web living?" > "is it living because it can die?"
> a catalog of links/lists of names > links > can disconnect/disapear > time sensitive
- "All the Catalogs (A-Z)", 2002, Penelope Umbrico
> mail order catalog on the internet > "when all the links are dead, the piece will die as well"
The Good Room // Frank Chimero
- clear path on how we use tech/what we expect from it
> technology is too fast/not very human concious > making use anxious beings > "is there a way to keep some of the benefits/diminish the damage?"
- importance of a good room > "if technology is a place where we live, a place we carry w/us, shouldn't we choose to be in lively/nourishing digital environments?" > merges commercial/non-commercial elements in our lives
- we reach for these apps bc of "boredom, desperation or lonliness"
> "too much time in fast-paced places" > we have to create rules for ourselves > technology much have a space 4 the soul > finding places away from the digital world to slow things down > reading books
- "1. Everyone is looking for help." "2. Modest needs should be lavishly met." "3. Be grateful for every chance to do something right."