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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) [Netscape]"> <title>The Web as Mutable Ritual of Communication</title> </head> <body text="#99FF99" bgcolor="#006666" vlink="#9999FF" alink="#00CCCC"> <blockquote> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>Lecture Notes:</font></font><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+2></font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+2>The Web as a Fickle, Mutable</font></font> <br><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+2>and Evolving Ritual of Communication</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>Ebon Fisher</font></font> <br> </blockquote> <table BORDER WIDTH="73%" HEIGHT="177" > <tr> <td WIDTH="63%" HEIGHT="79"> <blockquote> <p><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� Myron Krueger's term, "artificial reality" </font></font> <p><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� William Gibson introduces the term "cyberspace" in </font></font> <br><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>Neuromancer</font></font> <p><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� Jaron Lanier's term, "virtual reality"</font></font></blockquote> <p><br> </td> <td WIDTH="37%" HEIGHT="79"> <blockquote><a href="http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Krueger.html">Myron</a> <br> <br> <p><a href="http://Gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu/%7Eharrisws/wintermute/index2.html">The First "Church" of Wintermute</a> <p><a href="http://www.sciam.com/interview/lanier.html">Jaron</a></blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td WIDTH="63%" HEIGHT="208"> <br> <blockquote><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� Brenda Laurel: caves and theatre as VR</font></font></blockquote> </td> <td WIDTH="37%" HEIGHT="208"><a href="http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/index.html"><img SRC="Brenda_VR_helmet.gif" height=178 width=141></a> <p><a href="http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/index.html">Brenda Laurel</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td WIDTH="63%" HEIGHT="143"> <blockquote><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>"All the world is a stage" -Shakespeare</font></font> <p><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>"Don't believe the Hype" -Public Enemy </font></font></blockquote> </td> <td WIDTH="37%" HEIGHT="143"><a href="http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php"><img SRC="hype.gif" BORDER=0 height=104 width=149></a> <p><a href="http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php">Public Enemy</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td WIDTH="63%" HEIGHT="140"> <blockquote><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� Stereopticon Viewers as 19th Century VR</font></font></blockquote> </td> <td WIDTH="37%" HEIGHT="140"><a href="http://www.bitwise.net/%7Eken-bill/stereo.htm"><img SRC="A4618SO.1L.jpg" BORDER=0 height=156 width=202></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td WIDTH="63%"> <blockquote><font color="#62D6AC"><font size=+1>� Film, Radio, TV, and The Computer</font></font></blockquote> </td> <td WIDTH="37%"><a href="http://www.gingkopress.com/"><img SRC="mcluh_sm.jpg" BORDER=0 height=72 width=91></a> <p><a href="http://www.gingkopress.com/">Marshall McLuhan</a></td> </tr> </table> <blockquote> <p><font color="#5B87F2"><font size=+2>>>> Each medium is a window into a world?</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1><u>Paul Cézanne</u> in a letter to Emil Bernard, 1904:</font></font> <p><font size=+1><font color="#19FDB1">"The artist must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes painting [current imaging technology] to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature... The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold </font><font color="#4AFF50">picture of nature</font><font color="#19FDB1">."</font></font> <p><font color="#5B87F2"><font size=+2>>>> However</font></font> <p><font size=+1><font color="#19FDB1">Thomas Kuhn in the Structure of Scientific Revolutions: </font><font color="#5CFF5E">Science is not an accurate picture of reality</font><font color="#19FDB1"> so much as an evolving practice or paradigm. Each major break-through in science comes into being when a more elegant vision is arrived at to the satisfaction of any particular discipline. The elegance is not intrinsic to the new scientific equation, but the sum of the social, conceptual and technological parts. A rejuvenation in the system as a whole takes part.</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>Guy Debord: "The Spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images."</font></font> <p><font size=+1><font color="#19FDB1">John Perry Barlow, </font><font color="#5DBACA"><a href="http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/barlow_0296.declaration">Cyberspace Declaration of Independence</a></font><font color="#19FDB1">: "Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."</font></font> <br> <br> <br> <center> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>Then there's the Thomas Homep@ge....</font></font> <p><a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thomas_oskar_kuhn/02s_top.htm"><img SRC="hl_home4.gif" BORDER=0 height=79 width=57></a> <br> <br> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>...and the media band <a href="http://multipolyomni.com/indexed.htm">MULTIPOLYOMNI</a> (with DJ Olive)</font></font></center> <br> <br> <br> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>CULTURE AS CONTINUOUS VR CONSTRUCTION: Culture as whole, not just our communications technology, may be seen as a continuous endeavour to gather and define a virtual reality, a myth, to live by. Gathering around the tree, the watering hole, a house of parliament, and now chatrooms and list servs.</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>THE COMPUTER introduces into our existing infrastructure of phone lines a MUTABLE gathering place where chat rooms, music, art, games, video and research co-mingle in a sprawling, international, MULTI-SENSORY dialogue (for those who have access).</font></font> <p><font color="#5B87F2"><font size=+2>>>> And so...</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>My work in the early 1990's involved an exploration of different kinds of gathering places and media rituals. I was interested in the ways people, information, and media come together to form a vital system - a social cyborg.</font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>� <a href="ritindex.html">Media Rituals</a></font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>� <a href="codindex.html">Bionic Codes</a></font></font> <p><font color="#19FDB1"><font size=+1>� <a href="index.html">Nervepool</a></font></font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="ani_cons.gif" height=38 width=38> <br> <br> <br> <br> </blockquote> </body> </html>