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Transcript: - Computer = Data Structure + Algorithm - Data structure being the actual bytes of information that make data. * Web databases are the cultural maniestations of data structure. - Algorithm being the recognizance and execution of a task in a certain manner. * Games are the cultural manifestations of algorithm. - The projection of this model onto the world is an essential quality of new media. - Database is explicit in computer culture. - Narrative is not explicit. It still exists, but of our own need to create it. - Narrative and database forms exist as two "competing imaginations [...], two basic creative impulses". - Database and narrative have existed as methodology in a loose sense from early recorded history (Diderot's novels vs. his role in the Encyclopédie) - Historically we seem to back-and-forth from and to each form's prominence. - The digital computer marks the best fit "age" for database so far. Database a database is a structured collection of data. it is an array and need not have cohesion. usually databases are optimized for ease of retrieval. New Media a prezi by nick saulnier - Structuralist linguistic theory by Saussre; used here to explore the relationship between narrative and database. - Syntagmatic dimension: explicit, what was chosen, real text - Paradigmatic dimension: implicit, what could have been, imagined world Lev Manovich and Me! http://1n73rn37gh3770.space/ (Emilie Gervais) (Breakcore as a genre) https://vimeo.com/91814173 (Tabor Robak) - Computure culture: culture after computers. Data structure <--> Database Algorithm <--> Narrative - Whereas databases and algorithms are required for a computers function, narrative is not required to have a 'computer culture', only database. a narrative should contain both an actor and narrator. it should contain 3 distinct levels: TEXT, STORY, and the FABULA. A narrative's contents should be a series of events caused or experienced by the actor. Narrative Syntagm and Paradigm - New media art models itself on the ontology of the "computer" (database + algorithm) - Maurizio Bolognini, for example, in "Programmed Machines" (1992), programmed a room of computers to generate random images infinitely. In several installations of the same piece, the monitor is eventually removed and the image exists only as data inside the computer. Nothing is present except for a machine, purposed to collect data that is accessed in random succession, with no intentional sequence. ---> - "The Stairs-Munich-Projection" (1995) Greenaway - "The new media object consists of one or more interfaces to a database of multimedia material" - Lev Manovich - Through new media a technical definition of narrative can be said simply a traversing a database between records established by the database's creator. http://www.teleportacia.org/anna/ [anna karenin goes to paradise] - The database is born from computers. - As a form, it proceeds linear narrative and revitalizes the world as seen by cinema. - Rather than images juxtaposed in a succession in order to produce associations, Database is any number of any things, relational only in their situation in non-space. - Visual Novel - Trouble writing narrative - Uncomfortability with algorithm, desire to create effort - "Database" as sufficient in a lot of my work Cool Presentation database // narrative New Media and Syntagmatic/Pardigmatic Dimension Database and Narrative Database's Influence (on ART) Relevant Art - Existent in novel, cinema - Text, story, fabula - In cinema, montage + sequentiality Database - CD-ROM encyclopedia, web pages, internet - Data of any organization - In bound text the novel is to narrative what the photo album is to database. SO? Algorithm, Data Structure Narrative - New media makes syntagm (narrative) explicit and paradigm (database) implicit. [It reverses them!] - Think of a Adobe Premiere "project". The project, the database of choices from which a *.mov is construted, is explicit (it exists, it is there). - The narrative or what you do with the database is implicit (could be, doesn't have to be). We construct narrative in this software by VIRTUALLY linking together material (data) that exists. - When writing a book or making a sentence, there is only an implicit field of choices from one word to the next. It isn't contained in a "Media Browser" and it doesn't exist.
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