Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency (Paperback)

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In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing, film, radio, and television. The computer as medium creates new forms and genres for artists and designers; Bolter and Gromala want to show what digital art has to offer to Web designers, education technologists, graphic artists, interface designers, HCI experts, and, for that matter, anyone interested in the cultural implications of the digital revolution.

In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web began to shift from purely verbal representation to an experience for the user in which form and content were thoroughly integrated. Designers brought their skills and sensibilities to the Web, as well as a belief that a message was communicated through interplay of words and images. Bolter and Gromala argue that invisibility or transparency is only half the story; the goal of digital design is to establish a rhythm between transparency--made possible by mastery of techniques--and reflection--as the medium itself helps us understand our experience of it.

The book examines recent works of digital art from the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2000. These works, and their inclusion in an important computer conference, show that digital art is relevant to technologists. In fact, digital art can be considered the purest form of experimental design; the examples in this book show that design need not deliver information and then erase itself from our consciousness but can engage us in an interactive experience of form and content.

Jay David Bolter is Wesley Professor of New Media and Director, Center for New Media Research and Education in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech University.

Diane Gromala is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech University.

 

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	2
1	TEXT RAIN: The Digital Experience	8
2	Wooden Mirror: The Myth of Transparency	30
3	Nosce Te Ipsum: Seeing Yourself in the Digital Mirror	58
4	Magic Book: The New and the Old in New Media	76
5	Fakeshop: The Diversity of New Media	94
6	T-Garden: The Materiality of New Media	114
7	Terminal Time: Design in Context	130
8	The Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH 2000	142
9	Before and After SIGGRAPH 2000	150
	Colophon: Excretia and Reading as a Reflective Experience	162
	Appendix	170
	References	174
	Index	177

描述：
在《Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency》一書中，Jay David Bolter和Diane Gromala認為，與Donald Norman的著名格言相反，我們並不總是希望我們的電腦成為看不見的「信息設備」。他們認為，電腦不像烤麵包機或吸塵器，它感覺像一種媒介，現在正在與印刷、電影、廣播和電視等其他媒體並列。作為媒介的電腦為藝術家和設計師創造了新的形式和類型；Bolter和Gromala希望展示數字藝術對網頁設計師、教育技術專家、平面藝術家、界面設計師、人機交互專家以及對數字革命的文化影響感興趣的任何人所能提供的內容。

在1990年代初，世界各地的網際網路從純粹的文字表達轉變為一種對用戶來說形式和內容完全融合的體驗。設計師將他們的技能和感知帶到了網頁上，並相信通過文字和圖像的互動來傳達信息。Bolter和Gromala認為，隱形或透明只是故事的一半；數字設計的目標是在透明性（通過技術的掌握實現）和反思（作為媒介本身幫助我們理解我們對它的體驗）之間建立一種節奏。

該書檢視了SIGGRAPH 2000藝術畫廊的最新數字藝術作品。這些作品及其在重要的計算機會議上的展示表明，數字藝術對技術人員來說是相關的。事實上，數字藝術可以被認為是實驗設計的最純粹形式；本書中的例子表明，設計不需要僅傳遞信息然後從我們的意識中消失，而是可以讓我們參與到形式和內容的互動體驗中。

Jay David Bolter是喬治亞理工學院文學、傳播和文化學院新媒體教授和新媒體研究與教育中心主任。

Diane Gromala是喬治亞理工學院文學、傳播和文化學院副教授。

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