Key Term 1
Digital Selfhood
The purposeful curation of digital platforms to inform a specific kind of 'self' projected upon the viewer.
Immediacy
Media with the goal of making the user forget they are looking at a screen or through a lens. The medium is "transparent".
"Love Letters"
Montford, Nick
Porpentine
Mother
Hypermediacy
Hypermediacy is a style of visual representation that makes the act of mediation visible, acknowledging multiple acts of representation rather than erasing them.
Intertextuality
"The sum of relationships between and among writings. This modern critical term usually covers the range of ways in which one ‘text’ may respond to, allude to, derive from, mimic, or adapt another."
(Oxford Reference).
Guernica
Picasso
Katherine Hayles
Print is Flat, Code is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis.
Affordances
“An affordance is the relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used.” – Don Norman
Realism
Realism in media is an artistic approach aiming to represent images, characters, and settings as close to their real-world counterparts as possible, emphasizing authenticity
“Virtually Me: A Toolbox about Online Self-Presentation.”
Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson
Shelley Jackson
my body: a wunderkammer.
Medium
A form of communication which is used as an extension of one’s self.
OR
The material or technical process employed in an art or a communication.
Generative
Art or texts created or co-created using an autonomous, rule-based computational system (software or algorithm), often incorporating an element of randomness or chance, which gives the artist limited control over the final output and allows the user to create new outputs through interaction
Xinona
Kaheró:ton
Lynda Barry
What It Is
Ergodic
The conscious effort the reader/player exerts to navigate, influence, or produce events that would simply be told or shown in the context of a story or play. A means of distinguishing hypertext fictions or videogames from traditional narratives by focusing the analysis on the activity that produces the narrative rather than regarding its existence prior to interpretation as a self-evident fact.
Technology
Any expansion of human ability.
What is an Image?
W.J.T. Mitchell
Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Dakota.