medium analysis

Process - a film by Kahlil Joseph (excerpt)

“Could Virtual Reality Become 'The Evilest Invention Of All Time'?,“ On Point with Tom Ashbrook, WBUR (November 29, 2017)

See also: Interview with Jaron Lanier on The Takeaway, WNYC (November 21, 2017).

The Daily for Monday, November 27, 2017: “We also look at how a string of armed robberies in Michigan and Ohio has led to what could be the most important case on electronic privacy to go before the Supreme Court. Guests: Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent; Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court.”

“A Mathematical Theory of Communication” by C. E. Shannon, published in The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27 (October 1948).

“Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai,” Cabinet Magazine, Issue 43 (Fall 2011)

twohundredfiftysixcolors (2013) by Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus, 97:00, silent

“Crafted from over 3,000 animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for pop-cultural memes, self-expression, and artistic gestures. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF's evolution, its connections to early cinema, and its contemporary cultural and aesthetic possibilities.”

Electronic vs. Digital

In a court of law, electronically stored information (ESI) is defined broadly, referring to any “information created, manipulated, communicated, stored, and best utilized in digital form, requiring the use of computer hardware and software” (Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2006). In the everyday world, while the two often overlap, not every piece of digital information is rendered as an electronic document (they may be, e.g., metadata on an electronic file), nor could we go “completely” digital.  

Electronic data (document): “Electronic data is typically in the form of documentation that is static. It is a file - whether workable or not. The majority of distributed documentation should be in a non modifiable format, such as a .pdf file, either scanned with signatures, or rendered from the modifiable format. The files are electronically tangible, you can see them, work with them, update them.“

Digital data: “Electronic data is typically in the form of documentation that is static. It is a file - whether workable or not. The majority of distributed documentation should be in a non modifiable format, such as a .pdf file, either scanned with signatures, or rendered from the modifiable format. The files are electronically tangible, you can see them, work with them, update them.“ (E.g., an Excel file)

Contenders for an essay film, pt. 1

そのとき (moments) by Amanda Belantara (2011)

November by Hito Steyerl (2004)*

Organism by Hilary Harris (1975)

Letter to Jane by Jean-Luc Godard (1972)

Argument by Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall (1978)

Notes on Blue by Moyra Davey (2015)

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2012)

Junkopia by Chris Marker, Frank Simeone and John Chapman (1981)