Media and Materiality 2010

Hi everyone, The new links for my exhibition are: URL:         http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=61085 Embed: <a href=”http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=61085” target=”blank”><img src=”http://www.myebook.com/assets/frontend_file/embed_image/ebook_id/61085.png” border=”0″ alt=”Myebook – Technotexts – click here to open my ebook” /></a> Have a great holiday and see you next semester. Jonathan

Groucho Marx’s aphorism “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana,” brings to mind some of time’s perceived attributes; its singular directionality, the speed with which it passes. But what is time “like” on a website? In particular how do online exhibitions achieve the concretization of such an abstract concept? One common solution [...]

The working title for my proposed online exhibition is “Technotexts”, taken from N. Katherine Hayles 2002 book Writing Machines. The exhibit takes as its point of departure her claim that “the physical form of the literary artifact always affects what the words (and other semiotic components) mean” and will critically examine the validity of this [...]