
global_interface workshop series
New Media comes to University of California at Riverside in a series of workshops on new media practice.
They purpose that “this critical collaboration across the disciplines of the academy mirrors the global interface itself. Mark Poster outlines how digital technologies like the Internet can traverse the limits of traditional communication models, such as print and broadcast, as follows:
1) Enabling many-to-many communications;
2) Enabling simultaneous reception, alteration, redistribution of cultural objects;
3) Dislocating communicative action from the posts of the nation;
4) Providing instantaneous global contact;
5) Inserting the modern/late modern subject into a networked information machine apparatus.
Humanity is no longer constituted by clearly bounded subjects, but instead begins to function more like a network, in which individuals act “as a point in a circuit.” The global interface serves as the site where this transformation occurs.”
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