10/14/2010

CART351: Week 7

Response to reading:

"Database as symbolic form" - Lev Manovich

Continuing with the subject of database, this text begins by explaining in detail what are the different types of databases. The title comes from his idea of the database of the computer age as a new way of structuring our experience of ourselves and the world. This text really surprised me at how much one can talk about databases and the different types such as ones in movies (computer-based). There is a range of possibilities offered by the camera which is what makes it so rich in content. Vertov was able to merge database and narrative into a new form, and pushes this for other artists about to experiment with this.

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