The Fabric of Interface Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
New media technologies are rapidly emerging. Looking back on the past few decades of media, it’s clear that the content that catches hold plays a foundational role in sculpting how we live and think and interact. As the technologies with which we create and communicate change, cultural transmission will change in tandem.
Rex Woodbury • Cultural Transmission In the Internet Age
At the core of a medial ideology of electronic text is the notion that in place of inscription, mechanism, sweat of the brow (or its mechanical equivalent steam), and cramp of the hand, there is light, reason, and energy unleashed in the electric empyrean.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
Paradoxically, the deployment of technology can also serve as a reflection of our humanity. Techniques such as interactive infographics, augmented reality journalism, and 3D content storytelling go beyond mere technological progress; they emphasize human effort , setting it apart from the facile and inexpensive mass-produced content that is becomin
... See moreMarie Dollé • Embracing Tangible Media?
Craft is contemporary because it importantly maintains its tactile, bodily component in the face of computer technology. It connects people in the flesh and provides a much-needed alternative to the incessant push of digital interfaces, mediatization, and screen culture. Current stitch-and-bitch circles or knitting groups provide a respite from onl
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