Analog media are primed for imprint, but digital ones are structured to symbolize. One is focused on concrete preservation and presentation, the other on abstract storage and manipulation.
Category: BLOG
Short observations by Timothy Binkley, Ph. D.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics – Computer Art (Definition)
Instead of making things, the computer manipulates data. The import of this difference can be summed up with two related concepts: virtuality and interactivity.
Yesterday: Look of Hours
“The self that exists this morning is different from the self that existed yesterday. Which one am I looking for?”
Exalting the Imagination
Computers do not make imagination obsolete but instead give it greater importance.