Take some time to check J R de Plumes excellent review of Lori Emersons Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. J R discusses Loris open-ended positing of interface, revised notions of transparency towards user-friendliness, and readingwriting, an: ...indivisible set of processes and, at times, a decidedly disruptive act. Emerson points her readers to a range of contemporary digital writers who are challenging or troubling the so-called invisible user-friendly interfaces of bland branded ubiquitous computing by embracing visibility and courting difficulty, defamiliarization, and glitch in order to draw attention to the limits these technologies place on our thoughts and our expressions thereof. For example, in ‘_cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][_’ Mez incorporates linguistic elements from source code, game space, social media, and augmented reality into literary text through a language system she terms _mezangelle_. Eric Loyer’s app ‘Strange Rain’ requires a bodily engagement with reading. Falling rain and/or text and sounds respond to sustained interaction by means of tilting, rotating, and touching, rather than scrolling, flipping, or clicking in the ways e-books have trained us to read... (also reffing works by Jörg Piringer, Jason Lewis, Bruno Nadeau, Judd Morrissey, Mary Flanagan, Daniel C. Howe, John Cayley and Constant Dullaart, among others).
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:03:14 +0000
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