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It was an interesting session, thanx, and I'm not sure that a non-linear path would have been more profitable for me

- jupidu

Hi Jon

It is interesting to read your comments about Blackboard Collaborate. I think it is sometimes useful when technology breaks, or we fumble or struggle with it. When it fails, it becomes visible, and we are aware of the mediated nature of our communication channels and technologies. Audio artifacts produced as a result of severe compression, the crackle of a radio signal, the banding in the colour gradation of a JPEG image, snow on analog TV (or image lag and frozen frames in digital TV), are all rips in the fabric that make the fabric visible. Mind the gap. Any new technologies is alway visible at first, because it is alien, unfamiliar, a foreign language. We put it on, wear it, and, eventually, are as comfortable with it as we are our own skin. It is so much a part of us that it disappears. We don't think of it any more than we think about our own embodiment.  I am reminded of Stelarc, the Australian performance artist, who once said that, if technology can enter the body (he swallowed a video camera and projected images of his stomach), and if the body can enter technology (he hooked himself up to the Internet and let anyone control his body remotely), then the skin is no longer a significant site. His project is about the disappearance of the body and all its senses. I think I am getting off track here, so I'll stop now. 

Your change11 session on Wednesday (your time) gave me a lot to think about, as did the comments in the chat box. I heard something about another session on Friday (your time), so I'll look out for that. It's great that these sessions are recorded. I often listen to them after the event to catch the comments that I missed while typing and reading the text chat. Stephen often makes audio-only recordings, which I find particularly useful, as I can listen to them in a more focussed manner, while hanging out the laundry, cutting the grass, or engaging in some other task that leaves the brain free to concentrate.

All the best,

Mark McGuire

Twitter: mark_mcguire

Blog: http://markmcguire.net/

- Mark McGuire

Thanks Mark - I like that idea of alienation through mediation. That mediation gets very obvious sometimes, especially when part of it is divorced from its context - I'd forgotten about the sound recording or might have more often mentioned to what and to whom I was replying in the chat box, for instance.

seems link is link is broken in video player?  Can you make this available again?

Thanks!

- Ben