The Storied Machine
November 17, 2004
RTE -- The Irish national Radio One broadcasted Glorianna Davenport's science lecture "The Storied Machine" and placed it online as well. Davenport's fascinating narrative fails to acknowledge that art itself is an interactive experience, with no mediation required by an electronic medium.
In our Open Media Programme, we discuss the concept of remediated art because that is a core skill of a multimedia developer. In recent work by Jeanette Doyle, her paintings of cameraphone images create a new experience. Students who saw Doyle's "Me is Enough" often felt confused, surprised or unnerved by meticulously painted images staring at them from what should have been throwaway moments. One called them "ghoulish". But all felt it was a worthwhile experience, reflecting the sentiments of Stunned.org surprising, shocking or even alienating, but it forces us out of our comfort zone or presents us with a wonderful viewpoint we could never achieve alone. This is why I love art and great art can change the way we view the world for ever. Of necessity this is a top down process not an interactive one.
RTE -- "Future Tense" and the lecture.
Stunned -- "Glorianna Davenport: The Storied Machine"
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