Although my original topic for my blogs and video blogs is online communities aiding people in the arts, this week I thought it would be interesting to address idea of the internet as a an artistic tool for artists. I will address interactive art within the context of participatory culture.

The Impact of Technology – Computers

The invention of the computer has created an important method of how people communicate. Before the invention of the computer and the internet, there were typewriters and were the method of correspondence, via printed letters that would still have to be mailed via the postal service. Handwritten letters were going to be a thing of the past. With the advancement of the computer, software was developed; such as instant messaging, individual virtual folders for document archives on a virtual hard disk and for purposes of image manipulation. Anything that was physical could be converted into a virtual representation of the original. E.g. Printed texts could be scanned as an image or text file for access to students around the world.

This is my first episode about the impact of technology on people's lives, with regards to physical books, versus electronic books. My approach to creating this video is to portray a news-like type of informative video. Hope you guys like it, and let me know what you think! ^_^

Apologies for the headcold, but some things just need to be suffered through. Part II coming soon.

Questions and comments welcome.

Firstly, I want to apologize as I m not following my proposed topic as per the weekly episodes. I have chosen the topic “Bangalore ‘India”. I chose to do this because recently when I spoke to few localities about India they think that India looks like a village and the reason being, when ever India is shown on the screen, they show cows, fields, and countryside. It’s not their fault. Because you believe what you see. So I want to show one of the cities in India by name Bangalore because I come from that city. In my second blog I will show Bangalore city. The pictures and few video clips are what I have taken. Therefore I will be showing the surface not in detail.

Online Communities and the Arts: Episode 2 “Musicians and MySpace”

This is my second video blog in the series “Online Communities and the Arts” entitled “Musicians and MySpace”.

The Internet's Adventures in Wonderland: Episode 2 ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’

This is my 2nd video blog, episode 2 ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’ which is part of The Internet's Adventures in Wonderland.

Hello! This is my first vlog, introducing the ideas of identity and the physical body, and how this is affected in cyberspace.

An article in last Sunday’s Boston Globe asked what it would be like to carry around an entire research library on an iPod? (Winter, 2007) The article went on to pose the more important question of whether the seemingly boundless possibilities of the latest innovations in storage memory will render human forgetfulness obsolete. Beyond its reference to new technologies, the article seems to offer little in relation to the task I set myself to turn four chapters of Ulysses into a distributive narrative in Facebook. I argue, however, that what I am attempting is akin to the way new RAM storage technologies unlock the potential to record and remember everything. Facebook and its kin, I maintain, enable us to know, to experience, and to traverse a text in its entirety. In this view, Facebook becomes a memory bank, different from only physical RAM by a matter of degrees.