Category: Computer History
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Theory of Meme
According to the theory of Richard Dawkins memes just like genes have no purpose beyond their own reproduction. Important contribution to Theory of Meme is done by computer programmer Richard Brodie “who defines the meme as the virus of the mind, and who identifies three method of infection: repetition, cognitive dissonance, and Trojan Horses. The…
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Interface
“Appearance is knowledge, of a kind. Showing becomes a way o saying the unsayable. Visual knowledge… provides one of our primary means of comprehending the experience of other people.” David McDougall (2006: 5-6)
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Original Edison tinfoil phonograph
1877 (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site.)
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Footage Aesthetic
Platform presents users different experience of seeing the footage. This new way is something that you can never came across in the conventional screening. Within timeline, users see the whole video that seems like an abstract art piece, which include impressive time sequence in it. There are more than one way to see the data in…
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Interviews with Festival Participants
What is J-Fest for you?
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Expressing with Gifs
‘GIF’ ™ is CompuServe’s standard for defining generalized color raster images. This ‘Graphics Interchange Format’ allows high-quality, high-resolution graphics to be displayed on a variety of graphics hardware and is intended as an exchange and display mechanism for graphics images. The image format described in this document is designed to support current and future image…