Archive for the ‘Autobotography’ Category

Autobotography Example – Ancestry.com   Leave a comment

I think Ancestry.com is a good example of autobotography. It lists all of your relatives and you can add more people that haven’t been added yet. It uses a central server with all of this information to create a kind of biography about people’s family. If you’re the one adding the connections, it becomes more […]

Posted May 3, 2012 by Bryan in Autobotography, NMD206

Edge of Art – Introduction   Leave a comment

I don’t think the internet has really made art any less prominent in our culture. It’s created new ways to make art. Not the internet, specifically, but technology. You can draw digitally now, edit photos and videos. Before this technology, you could paint, yes, you could sculpt, sure, but the computer has taken those to […]

Posted May 3, 2012 by Bryan in Autobotography, NMD206, Responses

A Cyborg Manifesto   Leave a comment

What is a cyborg, or rather why is thinking about cyborgs useful for exploring identity? Is identity single? Dualistic? Paradoxical? What roll does gender play in cyborg identity vs conventional cultural identity? – Give two examples of cyborgs in books, comics, games, or films you have seen. Describe the cyborg, explain its role in the […]

Posted February 9, 2012 by Bryan in Autobotography, NMD206, Responses

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Edge of Art – Ch. 3   Leave a comment

What are some of the reasons for a surge in digital autobiographical production from “home pages” to “wearcams”? – People feel that there is an imbalance between ordinary citizens and organizations and institutions that use cameras. It plays around with the ideas that people tend to behave more when they know that they’re on camera […]

Posted February 9, 2012 by Bryan in Autobotography, Hacktivism, Responses

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Theater of the Opressed   Leave a comment

I’ve never been terribly good at metaphors, so it was a bit confusing for me, but I did find it interesting that this person ran for government in Brazil as an “act of theatre”, and actually was elected. It really could be basically a play that breaks the fourth wall by allowing the audience to […]

Posted January 17, 2012 by Bryan in Autobotography, NMD206, Responses

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