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Das Arts
The Yes Men
- the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass Generation29Kas 2005A nice presentation of megalomanic world domination cloaked in a shroud of anti globalist activism served straight up with a large shot of common sense and a wink and pinch in the butt to go.
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Diego Marani 1 Oca 1999
Europanto
From productive process to language
The Belgian weekly 'Le Soir Illustré' regularly publishes satirical articles by Diego Marani in Europanto. Is this a new artificial language, an alternative to Esperanto? Or could it be the language...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Richard Wright 1 Oca 1992
Laurel
Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theatre, Addison Wesley Publishing Company Incorporated Boston MA 1993
Computers are not tools for processing data, but a medium for representing actions in which human beings participate. What started life as a way to make computers easier for people to use and evolved...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Michael Sikillian 1 Oca 1993
Ong
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, Routledge, London 1988
The term 'global village' has become a commonplace in the media to describe societies created and sustained by electronic technology. But are digital computer systems replacing the visual print...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Norbert Bolz 1 Oca 1994
The Meaning of Surface
Traditional industrial design is falling apart.
Now that the digital revolution is turning everything into surface and the things with which we interact are becoming increasingly immaterial and turning into black boxes, not only do established...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 1993
Wetzel
Michael Wetzel, Die Enden des Buches oder die Wiederkehr der Schrift, Acta Humaniora Weinheim 1991
For a number of years, Michael Wetzel was coordinator of the (now closed) Kassel research project Metadisciplinary Literature Analysis. In this capacity, he is well-informed on the state of affairs...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 R.K. Joshi 1 Oca 1996
The Religious World of Letterforms
Various writing systems either pictographic, alphabetic or syllabic in nature, developed in different parts of the world over different time-frames, have been associated with the spoken or written...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Bert Mulder 1 Oca 1992
Alexander
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press 1977
We build information systems: hundreds of people sitting in front of screens that glow and that, interconnected, create an environment supporting their works and desires.