CART345: Week 6

Response/Review of Readings:

• Bolter. “Seeing and Writing”, ch. 47, pp. 679 – 690 in the New Media Reader. [W]

Bolter developed a concept of writing space which he explained in this text. He shows how the acts of storing and displaying text that are inseparable, are now torn apart by technology, thus coming up with new ways of dealing with and understand text. The media infiltrate the act of writing, resulting in creating their own necessity as media. I found it to be a very complex and detailed text, and he does prove a point because digital media has completely modified the way we perceive writing and how we write as well. Bolter suggests that seeing is not so innocent, nor are subjectivities so stable.

• Vanderlans and Licko. "Ambition, Fear".

I think it is important to know the different methods for which designers and artist use digital media for their work. New media is constantly evolving, leaving no room for boredom for these designers. Since we are just beginning to explore all the facets of the computer and its capabilities, the work that generates from these artists almost resembles caveman paintings. As mentioned in the text, "we are once again faced with evaluating the basic rules of design that we formerly took for granted". In order to create a design using the computer nowadays, one most know both specifically and formally what to use and what not to do. Thus, this is an exciting time for designers to create different types in the abyss of new media.

To check: Nick Sherman Design


This video does not really relate to the texts but I thought it was a nice addition to what can be done with letters in an analog form and how typography can be manipulated to represent something else:



This is also a different way of playing around with typography, mainly letters in this video, quite beautiful. The background sound is the voice of someone saying the letters that are being placed:




Lastly, here is a very powerful text about language relating to the project we are currently working on: