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Although not yet well-investigated by science, Mori’s “Uncanny Valley” theory holds that as a simulation of a human being’s appearance and/or motion becomes increasingly accurate, there is very suddenly a point at which humans’ interest in the creation turns into … Continue reading →

Artist forced to remove head camera implant

Quick recap + project & reading for next week: We added a makeup class on Sunday March 6th. Those who realize they can’t attend please let me know ASAP, as in class everyone said they could. Syllabus has been updated. … Continue reading →

Hayles – The 3 waves of Cybernetics: Shannon’s Channel model: Pask’s conversation: Numbers are topics, arcs are operators, and boxes are behaviors or resulting actions. Pask, 1976.

(reading + assignment for class at bottom of post) In the first class we tried defining the concepts of “Live” and “Media”. We ended this discussion with the introduction of some concepts from Cybernetics. We also looked at some venerable … Continue reading →