Reading for October 16

One of the examples of sound art that interested me was Mayakovsky by Four Horsemen.  This is a very strange piece of sound art as there is a lot going on at the same time.  The track starts off simple enough with a single drum beat and some vocals.  But it soon culminates into an […]

McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

The passages that interested me from the reading are the sections about jobs government.  Something in government passage that stuck out to me was the line “politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.”  This point of view expresses that the government is reactionary and unable to combat the problems we face in the moment.  It […]

Reading 1

One of the passages that stood out to me from the reading is the section about Artificial Intelligence.  The purpose of this passage is to help explain Automation, one of Manovich’s five principles of new media.  Automation is the removal of human interaction from the creative process, as computers can finish the job for us. […]