Well, here is an image that’s on my desktop right now:
It is a picture of someone else's desktop. I like it very much. It was sent to me from Paris by someone I don’t know who installed a screen saver that I made on her computer. I had asked for
Today your final plaque and audience description is due in 185 Nassau, Room 206 (our normal classroom) at 10am. The audience description should be ~250 words and must be printed to turn in. Work not turned in then will be marked late. I look forward to seeing the finished plaques. Perhaps we can bolt them onto a rocket and send them out to the cosmos ...
Continues in class . . .
It is a picture of someone else's desktop. I like it very much. It was sent to me from Paris by someone I don’t know who installed a screen saver that I made on her computer. I had asked for
an image of the software as installed wherever in the world it might find itself.I've been assembling a collection of similar images here. I find the collection mesmerizing. Here is, the same graphic, as found, in different places in the world. Each picture inevitably reveals some of the physical context. These remind me that when graphics circulate, they do not do so in a vacuum. The graphic always ends up somewhere, on a particular computer. We have tried to think about this over the course of the short semester, starting from Black Lives Matter and ending up in deep space.
Today your final plaque and audience description is due in 185 Nassau, Room 206 (our normal classroom) at 10am. The audience description should be ~250 words and must be printed to turn in. Work not turned in then will be marked late. I look forward to seeing the finished plaques. Perhaps we can bolt them onto a rocket and send them out to the cosmos ...
Continues in class . . .