interface

Rebecca Allen spoke on "Global Interfaces, Intimate Interfaces and the Interface between Art and Technology" after dinner at HASTAC Friday evening.

Innerspace and Interface: Affect and representation are crucial to digital history, music, and dance.

Notes from the session "Theorizing Interface: Metaphors help us comprehend how digitality weaves, binds, encloses, bridges, spans, and navigates across technologies, spaces, and disciplines (from genomics to urban planning)".

I have to admit that when I first came to Duke I was a bit overwhelmed with the concept of "interface." It is very difficult to say precisely what "interface" is. Interface is always the Janus-faced border, yet at the same time enunciating the very division of the border, for at the interface that which was previously disparate mixes, combines, becomes one. How does one understand, much less visualize, such metaphysics? With video interviews with digital pioneers and 3-d patent visualizations, of course!

David Liu, a doctoral student in Religion at Duke, led our Interface Seminar on his theory of interaffectibility and took all of us on a beautiful journey from the pre-Socratics to paper airplanes.

If we are comfortable living on the long tail of folksonomies, do we need formal tagging taxonomies to power the future semantic web? And what is the comfort level of customization (v. consensus) in collective (representation of) our intelligence?

Hi, everyone--

 

Bill Seaman is the head of Digital Media at RISD, and luckily he's coming over at the invitation of Kristine Stiles to speak to the Interface Seminar. Seaman's main interests lie along the intersection of digital media, electrochemical computing, and artificial intelligence: an eclectic and productive combination.