Category: Stories, Language & Media
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Reality and Simulation in “The Prisoner,” by Caroline Fuchs
Number 6 is being held hostage in “The Village” for only one reason: to answer the question why did he resign. But Number 6 did not resign for personal gain (to sell the valuable information he has) but for personal reasons, rebels against his prison and refuses to cooperate.
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“Out of thin air” – Mask and Representation in “Mad Men,” by Marten Weise
The TV Show Mad Men, first broadcast in July 2007, has received a lot of positive critique and has been awarded many well-known prizes. In three consecutive years (2007, 2008 and 2009) it won the Golden Globe for The Best Television Series in the category Drama. It investigates many different topics on a televisual level.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro
We would like to look into the timeliness of the computer, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine. Computers don’t have a concept of time as we know it.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The object of analysis is a digital image archive. I chose ARTstor, the biggest online image library for research and education. ARTstor collaborates worldwide with other institutions to include as many collections as possible. The non-profit organization was founded in 2003, out of the urgency to make image material available by the Internet.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
In my Master’s Thesis in Art History, done at the Technical University of Berlin in 2011, I attempted to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace.
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On the Sociology of Music, by Alan N. Shapiro and Chris Williams
Here we make the first presentation of our ideas about the reality of popular music in contemporary society. But what is reality? What is the relationship between reality and mediality? Between reality and virtuality? Between reality and simulations? What is music in the context of our social system of consumer culture?