Category: Key People
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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics. Wiener wrote many books and articles. His book called “Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” is the first public usage of the term “cybernetics” to refer to self-regulating mechanisms.
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Why Media Archeology matters?
“Things matter in terms of their politics and how they participate in the construction of our world.” (Parrika, Jussi. What is Media Archeology. Polity Press, 2012.) Media devices are a proof of the concept of a discrete spatiotemporal dimension which has shaken the claim that man cannot be in two different places at the same…
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History of Automations
“A study of the history of automata clearly revelas that several of the basic inventions produced for these attempts to imitate life by mechanical means led to significant developments culminating in modern automation and cybernetics.” (Bedini 1964:41) Automaton is a self moving machine simulates the actions of a living being. “I suppose the body to…
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Nam June Paik (1932–2006)
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. Nam June Paik Korean-born American artist Paik influence the…
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Contemporary Media Studies
Contemporary media can be used interchangeably in various context with different authors. What this research mostly referring to Lev Manovich who describes the technology as an inseparable component of the digital media and work on the data mining in digital environments, Andreas Treske who presents video, as an immersive atmosphere, which resists the narrative dictatorship…
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
He regarded as inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in the Cern. There are three the key innovations that formed the Web; HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol); allows you to click on a link and be brought to that document or Web page, URLs (universal resource locators, which Tim originally referred to…
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Video
According to the Video theory, which is written by Andreas Treske, media technologies require us to navigate through the world of meaning, into images that make our memories. These timeless or time thickened images change the atmosphere, take us to the ground zero feeling. “We are immersing in video atmospheres”, says Treske. Videos as forms of realness give…