About the project 1

For this project, I'm not worrying too much about the technical approach, so far the concept is the major issue.  


Links to some articles may help me to develop the concept:

http://www.dionarchibald.com/ArtQuotes

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marshall_mcluhan.htmlhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_/ai_20824257

http://knowledge.emory.edu/article.cfm?articleid=860

Some Quotes may be applied to this project:

"Working back and forth will influence your thinking in both spheres and, undoubtedly, cause you to ask new questions of your work in the traditional medium as well as to look for ways to do new things with technology."

"Affluence creates poverty. "

"The medium is the message."

-the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.  

"Art is anything you can get away with."

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. "

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval." 

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. "

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' " 

Marshall McLuhan

"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. "

Daniel Bell

About the presentation

Three Readings:

The Rhizome (Deleuze/Guattari) / The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) / As We May Think (Bush)

Questions:

1. What are these 3 readings talking about?

2. What's the connections between each of them?

As We May Think basically reveals how the human brain and the artificial intelligence work differently from each other, and it also shows different concepts, ideas that the scientist developed to try to communicate with the machine, and use it to store and manipulates data.

The Garden of Forking Paths starts from a new way of story telling, which gives the reader an option to choose how the story gonna be developed at certain key point.  This represents one of the approaches in computer programming -  the conditional constructs. The if-then construct (sometimes called if-then-else) has become one of the basic syntax across many programming languages, such as Visual Basic, C, C+, C++, C#, etc.

If (condition) Then    (statements) Else    (statements) End If

This is similar as how the story goes, for example:

If (the character opens the 1st door) Then

     ( A monster  came out)

Else

     (he opens the right door and leaves safely)

End If

    

at the beginning of the class

This class has lots of flexibility, maybe too much. It could be a challenge, 'cause so far I'm not sure how it is going to direct me to where. I'll start doing the readings and go through the resources, and hopefully I will get better idea in this week to the next.