Reflection On Texts, Week of April 20-27
The following will be a post to pull out pertinent information from various texts I have read over the semester.
Acoustic.Space: Trans Cultural Mapping, Issue #5, 2004
"Spatial Perceptions-Spatial Politics" by Nina Czegledy
*1960's E.T. Hall people from different cultures structure and experience space differently and as a consequence inhabit distinctly different sensory worlds (108).
*Intimate spaces we inhabit include visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory biosphere, spatial perceptions allows for us to reach for an object, find out way when lost, recall and visualize remote location and informs reflexes (108).
*Processing and storage of spatial info forms a central element of human intelligence (108).
*Recent studies have shown that our perceptual experiences are formed by manifold, complex interactions between sensory modalities (108).
*Psychogeography experiments are usually facilitated via non-scientific methods such as aimless drifting through an urban environment while trying to record the emotions given by a particular place; and using the mental mapping towards the construction of mood-based maps (109).
"Aura: The Stuff Around The Stuff Around You" by Steve Symons
*Augmented reality involves the overlaying of digital information onto real space. By moving through the real environment users experience the digital information at the location to which it refers, aura rejects physical interfaces in favor of directional augmented reality to create a seamless naturalistic experience (170-171).
"Negotiating Rautatieasema" by Andrew Paterson
*Text of an amalgamation of processes and practice engaged in by workshop participants, distilled as a creative and performative text (178).
*Rautatieasema 'boundary object' framed as a common point of reference for conversation, a means of coordination, alignment, and translation. It was the common locus for activity and interaction, to engage, document, and problematise notions of site-specificity and place. However, it was also a gathering for point for the overlap between emerging media, performance and archaeological practices (179).
"Spectrum Space and The Extensions of Nations" by Zita Joyce
*Radio spectrum is the organizing principle for frequencies of electromagnetical radio waves-both natural and generated by human communication technologies. It is an internationally shared resource that cannot be depleted, but can be filled up (208).
*Radio waves are not bound by political borders however, and radio space is a dimension of nation space that draws vectoral connections across geographical space (208).
*Radio waves transgress across pieces of land, causing conflicts of sovereignty over radio space, control over content, and availability of space for local spectrum users. For remote island nations, borders with other nations exist across deep ocean water, and the negotiation of radio boundaries is less contentious. Rather than conforming to immediate land space, the island radio zone stretches out into the ocean (208-209).
"The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good" by Clay Shirky
*FCC considering opening up additional spectrum to unlicensed uses. Much of spectrum under consideration for broadcasters--creates tension with other groups that may want to take advantage of spectrum (222).
*Current regulation assumes that a given frequency is like a virtual wire (223).
*To limit interference--a sender had to 'own' a frequency to use it. FCC manages and enforces (223).
*FCC treats spectrum as property, a regulatory approach that creates enormous difficulty, since spectrum isn't actually property. The necessary characteristics of property are the opposite of the characteristics of a public good (223).
*Since the treatment of spectrum as property is an artifact of current regulatory structure, itself an artifact of current regulatory structure, itself an artifact of engineering can change what spectrum is, at least in a regulatory setting (224).
*Critical change in engineering (critical advantages)--spread-spectrum radio--first encodes data on several frequencies simultaneously...It decouples the link between the frequency of a particular signal and the amount of data that can be sent between devices, allowing data transfer rates to be much higher than the carrying capacity of frequency considered as a virtual wire. Second, because both sender and receiver are computationally smart, they can agree on ways of sending and receiving data in ways that largely avoid traditional form of interference (224).
*Wi-Fi is a technology to do this (224).
Acoustic.Space: Trans Cultural Mapping, Issue #5, 2004
"Spatial Perceptions-Spatial Politics" by Nina Czegledy
*1960's E.T. Hall people from different cultures structure and experience space differently and as a consequence inhabit distinctly different sensory worlds (108).
*Intimate spaces we inhabit include visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory biosphere, spatial perceptions allows for us to reach for an object, find out way when lost, recall and visualize remote location and informs reflexes (108).
*Processing and storage of spatial info forms a central element of human intelligence (108).
*Recent studies have shown that our perceptual experiences are formed by manifold, complex interactions between sensory modalities (108).
*Psychogeography experiments are usually facilitated via non-scientific methods such as aimless drifting through an urban environment while trying to record the emotions given by a particular place; and using the mental mapping towards the construction of mood-based maps (109).
"Aura: The Stuff Around The Stuff Around You" by Steve Symons
*Augmented reality involves the overlaying of digital information onto real space. By moving through the real environment users experience the digital information at the location to which it refers, aura rejects physical interfaces in favor of directional augmented reality to create a seamless naturalistic experience (170-171).
"Negotiating Rautatieasema" by Andrew Paterson
*Text of an amalgamation of processes and practice engaged in by workshop participants, distilled as a creative and performative text (178).
*Rautatieasema 'boundary object' framed as a common point of reference for conversation, a means of coordination, alignment, and translation. It was the common locus for activity and interaction, to engage, document, and problematise notions of site-specificity and place. However, it was also a gathering for point for the overlap between emerging media, performance and archaeological practices (179).
"Spectrum Space and The Extensions of Nations" by Zita Joyce
*Radio spectrum is the organizing principle for frequencies of electromagnetical radio waves-both natural and generated by human communication technologies. It is an internationally shared resource that cannot be depleted, but can be filled up (208).
*Radio waves are not bound by political borders however, and radio space is a dimension of nation space that draws vectoral connections across geographical space (208).
*Radio waves transgress across pieces of land, causing conflicts of sovereignty over radio space, control over content, and availability of space for local spectrum users. For remote island nations, borders with other nations exist across deep ocean water, and the negotiation of radio boundaries is less contentious. Rather than conforming to immediate land space, the island radio zone stretches out into the ocean (208-209).
"The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good" by Clay Shirky
*FCC considering opening up additional spectrum to unlicensed uses. Much of spectrum under consideration for broadcasters--creates tension with other groups that may want to take advantage of spectrum (222).
*Current regulation assumes that a given frequency is like a virtual wire (223).
*To limit interference--a sender had to 'own' a frequency to use it. FCC manages and enforces (223).
*FCC treats spectrum as property, a regulatory approach that creates enormous difficulty, since spectrum isn't actually property. The necessary characteristics of property are the opposite of the characteristics of a public good (223).
*Since the treatment of spectrum as property is an artifact of current regulatory structure, itself an artifact of current regulatory structure, itself an artifact of engineering can change what spectrum is, at least in a regulatory setting (224).
*Critical change in engineering (critical advantages)--spread-spectrum radio--first encodes data on several frequencies simultaneously...It decouples the link between the frequency of a particular signal and the amount of data that can be sent between devices, allowing data transfer rates to be much higher than the carrying capacity of frequency considered as a virtual wire. Second, because both sender and receiver are computationally smart, they can agree on ways of sending and receiving data in ways that largely avoid traditional form of interference (224).
*Wi-Fi is a technology to do this (224).
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