1. Old New Media - Mar 11

"Lascaux painting" by Prof Saxx - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 

10.00 Outline of the NMNT 2015 Spring Semester course / Memex Revisited

We will kick of the day with an overview of the NMNT course. 

Then we will review Vannavar Bush's groundbreaking article in which he outlines the internet in a complete analog way in 1945. We will look for similarities and differences between his idea and the current internet. This is a pioneering new media paper so interesting by itself, but also a good example that the ideas and concepts behind today's new media can often be traced back to the early days, and that by reflecting on these old examples one can actually get inspiration how to evolve today's new media into the future.

Vannavar Bush. As We May Think. Reprint from The Atlantic Monthly, July, 1945. Interactions, March 1996.

Please do the following:

• • Watch the movies, and then read the article in detail. You can start with the intro, section 1, and then section 6 onwards

  • Capture examples of similarities between the Memex and the Web

  • Capture examples of functional differences - how does the Memex deviate from standard functional web use

  • Fastforward into the future by picking one of the differences, and design a novel imaginary app or capability inspired by this difference

We will then have a short group discussion about your findings

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Back to the Future

• • All Media was Once New

  • Hardware, Interfaces, Human

New Media New Technology 2016 workshop 1 from Peter Van Der Putten

If I would have to pick 1 paper:

J.C.R. Licklider. Man Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics,volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960

15.00 Trailblazer for assignment 1

See Lab 1