The Matrix and the Cave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM

Essay

Cyberspace in the contemporary world.
Hanne sandal

The question we all start with is what is cyberspace? How does cyberspace fits in with the contemporary world? How are we a part of it? And how do we define it, the main definition of cyberspace comes from William Gibson`s book Neuromancer from 1982, where he defined cyberspace as a world linked together in and with computer systems.

Today cyberspace is used to explain the physics of the web, and the thought world. Something that is illustrated by sending files and downloading files from the web (that is the physics part), and when you meet other people online (that is the thoughts world). It is opening new doors. This space is narrowing down the borders between us, and making the world smaller and smaller, with every blogger, technology is such a huge part of our everyday lives. A way to explain and how it is evolving this I found in the book of Michael Benedikt, and his book Cyberspaces first steps.
“ Advanced digital technologies, such as those that generate cyberspace hold considerable promise as a testing ground for post ritual theories and practise, in particular as conceptualized by a critical post-industrial, post organic anthropology” (h-refl 1).

Gibson’s Cyberspace is not a regular “room”/space, but a space of surfaces, images, simulating and empty signs. These spaces consist of computer-based information, and create a virtual world that evolves in the speed with the real world. This virtual world becomes a sort of a sci- fi version of the real world. Gibson called this world, the cyberspace for The Matrix.
I would say that the movie “The Matrix” is very relevant. Shortly explained, this movie is about a virtual world where the humans are being kept prisoners, without knowing it. It is as if they were in a bubble and no one is able to burst that bubble.
It is the virtual world, which is tied together with our world. You can look at cyberspace as a world in change, with changing between worlds, kingdoms and rulers, and technology. But every day an invisible enemy attacks the digital society, and the fight has moved to cyberspace.

It is when we use the definition of the physical net, and the imagine world (the thought). For instance when we send and download files online (the physical web), and we meet online (the thought world). This world is coming into our lives more and more, weird in our house, and becoming a bigger part. It is like this “our hopes for the convergence are dominating our common sense. The creation of the converge, and hence stability, we seek requires that we cease to attempt to `save` or `overcome` space and time through the use of technology” (h- refl 2)
We somehow feel that we are invincible, and that we can do everything!

Cyberspace and the Matrix is the same thing, a world where nothing is real, since everything is virtual, the difference is that we know cyberspace is virtual.
A good way to show this is through a scene, from Matrix where Neo and Morpheus are fighting, in the virtual world, weird to the system.
“You think that’s air you’re breathing now? Don’t think you are, know you are!”

h-refl
viewed at 16 october 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d14jRsAobtk

i tok a photo of my self, with the camera on my computer and twisted it. looks artisktick, and alienink (yes i just made up a new word, it meens i look like a alien) :)

but what i reeely consider fore art is photografs, where you see what you get, i love photos.

this is art :)

lecture week 10 studying the video game

studying the video game. (the study of games)
- why?
it is not to lear us how to make games, but the effects of games.
and the meening whith the lecture today was to bring us the entertaining part of the subject.
diffrent video games, diffrent time.
who is the audience?
2005: male made up the 80% of the game players demografi.
many diffrent types games
-pc games
- online games
- consule games
-consume games
- mobile games
diffrent markeds (versli diffrent markeds)

sterio types game players.
everyone see the 20-25 year old man who live at home with mom and dad, and stay in his room all day loong playing games.
(this isnt true in all cases ;)

25-40 olde (male) made 59 % of players
and the rest was made by female 41%

comunity based games is mostly played by female.

pc games are dominante by male

fittnes games
wiii (this is a game i like to play) dont need to think so much :)


most games are much like everydayulife
-everyday life
-objective
-how
- work\earn \ learn

1)social sciense aproach
affect of game on people
- violece - video games make violent people
- how violece is portrayed in video games

this is relevant, there have been many diffrent storys about young boys who have brought weapons too school and, killed, and been standing and looking at there boddys waiting fore them to stand up again, game over! and the restart. some people cant play thise games, i think, some times they cant separate reel and fiction.


2)humanities aproach
meening and cintense of games.
narrative - what is the story of the games is trying to tell? (like films)
majority of films have narrative
artifacts of a given time

3) the industry of enginering aproach!
- development of games \ new technology

how computergames are used!
wii - in gyms - cheting, it is reconstructing of things you doo in the gym. (why dont do it "your selves")

diffrent ways of being used!

primary school- this is good fore the kids that isnt active! in some ways.
reierment homes - fore elderly who is unabel to move a lot, waking is hard fore. and it gives them a feeling of being active.m

at teh end of the lecture he took up to volenters of the students, to make a experiment.

male female
cross rons, but mostly play pc games consume, guitar hero and
fps first person shooters pokemon (bringing up and
bringing up)

this experiment was to show that not everybody who plays games gets "affected by it" and dont turn violent, a smal prosentedge of game players do.
in resherche it is shown that people who play games develope better skills in perenting
multitasking, thinking quik an have a short time memory.

was a fun and intresting lecture today :)

Lectrue week 9, last lecture by Jason :(

we were going to have a lecture about cyber etopia. but he changed his mind.
we had a lecture about Jason`s all everything gigantic and super lecture on how to teach yourself software!!

most of us aske for help without trying, and only staring at the screen, and not trying.! (in most cases i think he is right)

most of us have no idea on how the software realy works.
eksample, adobe flash (many programs use it, MTV for ex)
but adobe can be kind of crazy (jason said , and i quote "there is a lot of crazy crap"

a lot of things to go thru - software change.

he had a lost of diffrent steps on how to understand the diffrent software better,

- begin by figuring out what you need to do. "dont bring a tank to a water ballon fight" :) hahah
find the best software Package to what you need
(you don’t know what you need to do)
What you are looking fore.

You don’t learn software in a few days, it takes time.
Good software is designed to bee deep.
Play around with the soft ware. (open it and look!)
Software is an language, take time to understand it.
Aro tool (flash has two)

Look at the common features, you have been using some of it before, (you know about 20% of what is one it, that is common)


- Save your work!!! Hardrive space is cheep
- Save it a million times so you don’t loose your work.! As multiple versions
- But save it as somtjing you remember, and find again!



- Try the help file!
- But that is in fact more designed fore the people who already know the software, it is not the best options for beginners.


Try different methods, change it around, find the best way . try different ways! The exsample of looking the keys in your car, and the help come and, they try different ways, on the same time, when the first thing don’t work.

- Best ways to search for software help.
- If you are searching for help on Google, simplify you search sentences don’t use to many words.
- Find the best sides
- Macromedia Flash tutorials (is a good one to search on)
- DON’T PAY FOR ENYTHING! Cheap searching
- Find some good sides and search there! Best ways
- Join different forums, and ask the same question
- A good thing to do is to join forums, and ask questions
- But who will answer? And will they ansewer! Do some reasherch,
- Be specific on what you are looking for!
- Adnd chec up the sights, and the members, and what is been replied, and how long before the replies has been posted.
- Flash Kit - Board
- Software problem

- Don’t fear tutorial books and videos (but don’t buy them, go to the library)

- Video tutorials works better, they showe you what too do!

- LINDA (think that’s how you spell it) this is a good sight (but here you have to pay)

Unless you steel them, but that is illegal
Commercials for piracy , downloading illegal they are going to drastic matures to stop people downloading, you catch on fire.

- Don’t take a course!
You need to learn it by your self (the best way to learn something)
Find it online, fore free.
Its all about content, its all coming down to content.
The biggest problem is that there is to many fancy tricks.

Remember, you what to create something different! Create something that don’t look like it is created in that software
Warning: be careful, what is cliché and what’s not

Have fun with it!!

week 9

week 8 lecture late i know :)

Lecture week 8
I almost forgot to posted the lecture notes from last week, but here they come 
Political possibilities by Stephen Stockwell


Talked about some suggestion reading for the exams, and they are posted on Learning at Griffith
Mark Poster cyber democracy
Cyber politics (the politics of the internet)
Democracy transferred thru the internet
The struggle for democracy
How news / politics travel
Talked about the old Greece as an example, on how the men met every ten day and discussed politics, a force in the society.
Today this kind of society is mostley over the net.
A internet society, it is similar to the Greece system
But now things happen over internet

Runs the structure of internet
Interventional and controvential
Political party
Political use of the net (road safty issue)
Cyber politics
Liberal democracy
Change welfare of the common wealth 19 century
(dominant century of debate)
Gaps in the mass media
Points new ideas, good ideas
Good publicity
What was good about it, and what was bad about it?
Create a public fear.
Looking for gaps in mass media where we get the message from.
Number of different corporations
The chaser (television show) students from here, part of the making
Developing stories.
What does the media want? What does the public want? Images – pictures (good) easier tp get a photo in the newspaper, then your story.
Political possibilities of the mass media.
Sensuring
People who “hang” out on the internet (bad people)
Paper about the hacker of the (cities and masses)
Cyber punk Phillip. K. Dick
A movie early 70 the conversation (computers are not quite on line)
Political important
The use of technology
Connecting two ideas
Blade runner- high tech assume what the life would be like
Punk music bands – sex pistols- clash
William Gibson
Trilogies Spookt contains
Matrix cyber punk Promitius