Writing Under the Pressure of Technology

This podcast includes an interview with a VU art student and intern at the Brauer Museum of Art. She discusses Walter Benjamin’s concept of a work of art’s “presence in time and space.” We also discuss the value of an original work of art versus more modern practices of reproduction.

Jenn and Steph

DJ and Alyse discuss Elizabeth Eisenstein and Adrian Johns, and their views on the printing press as a cultural force.

This podcast analyzes Walter Ong’s ideas about writing as a technology that not only allows communication but also affects thought.

Lauren n Chris

Permalink to the podcast:
http://blogs.valpo.edu/awestoveengl400/2009/09/23/remediation-technology-is-different/

Click where it says audio m4a. Music is “Rattlesnake’s Medicine” from Mesa Music Concert’s CD Spirits of the Wild. This is a discussion of Patchwork Girl focusing mainly on the graveyard portion of the hypertext.

Laura and Ellen provide the class an exercise in Sircian conversation: ruptured, fragmented, rapid-fire, narrativeless–but chock full of ideas. It’s got “bang.”

Liz and Diana discuss Sirc’s use of Duchamp to get at what art means in an age where everyone can publish.

Music: Walk On Essen11, by mykleanthony from ccmixter.org/view/media/remix

 

How real are our virtual worlds? Well, that is a question inspired by the text of Sherry Turkle. And in this podcast, Grotheer and Cooper aim at tackling that question and other issues that are created in the act of thinking about us, the real, and the virtual.

Style:  Confessional
Piece:  This podcast explains the reasons why I feel I can’t be myself, and the place where I can be myself.
3 Sounds:  The three sounds I chose to make were a pre-recorded voicemail message from my cell phone, the sound of someone running, and someone shouting Hallelujah.
Running Time: 2:32
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