1. What does Ritchin mean with the "fluidity of the digital"? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. According to Richin, In Our Own Image, “... ‘digital photography’ obscures is that by changing the architecture of the image - moving from chemically processed grain to discrete electronic pixels - we are not creating another photography genre, but another medium...”(Ritchin xii) I agree with this statement that digital photography has actually become a new kind of medium rather than a type of photography. With the development of technology, digital ...
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Pioneer Plaque Assignment
Hey Heptapods, does your planet have food delivery service? Since human beings consume energy when doing actions, such as walking, jumping, running, or even writing, they need 'food' to help them keep vigorous and cope with daily life activities. Food can be wild animals obtained by hunting, crops in the field, or cooked food made by human beings themselves through roasting, boiling, or heating. Because food contains plenty of nutrition which is a must for humans, accordingly food plays an essential role in humans’ daily life. With the fast development of society, human beings have also ...
Sound Visualization Project
I chose CORSAK, 溯(Reverse) as the song for the sound visualization project. For me, this song is ethereal and comfortable. Whenever I heard this song's piano version, I feel like sometimes I am walking on the wind; sometimes I am floating in cool water. Rain, or music note just dropping from the sky and make sounds like 'di da di da'. Later on, my first version of this project born. It took me a lot of time, but still did not look ethereal. Instead, this work looks a little weird and too simple. After taking the lecture, I found out that I did the project wrong. We can only use ...
Story of Your life
1. How do aliens in the story language and communication style different from the human language(oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)? The aliens, heptapods, have two language systems; one is for speaking and speech, and the other writing. First of all, instead of mouths, they use an orifice at the top of its body to vibrate for talking. Furthermore, their spoken language is free of order and can add many levels of center-embedding clauses. Secondly, their writing languages are not confined to letters or sentences. Heptapods can change the curve of strokes to show different ...