WEEK 9 -- META-DATING
Lecture:
Bases of categorization and the nature of representation imposed by computer-mediated
databases and data aquisition systems.
Natalie Jeremijshenko's "Suicide Box"
p 822, Databases and Research Processes
in "Information Arts" by Stephen Wilson
"Metadata" by Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly Network, and Dan Brickley,
ILRT and RDFWeb
p 191, in Peer-to-Peer, hsrnessing the power of discruptive technologies
ed. by Andy Oram
Excerpts from:
"A Void" by Georges Perec, and Gilbert Adair
"The Order of Things" by Michel Foucault
"Sorting things out" by Bowker and Star (Bowker 1999)
// Art project of the week:
community mapping by Nikola Tosic http://www.community-mapping.org you can register, save a period of your life and then within this period you can save data about communities to which you belonged, most important you can save maps where your communities have been located. you should update your maps as time passes and make them bigger and more colorful (color signifies type and transparency signifies importance of community).
WEDNESDAY:
LOGIC BRANCHING
- non-linear logic
- logic flow charts
- if/else statements
- switch statements
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