Rip Mix Feed – A Reflection on the Evolution and Interrelationships of the Manifestation of the Narrative
The above 8 second clip was created with the application Pics Art on my mobile device. The application connects to a variety of social networks including Flickr which enabled the search of images and addition of them into a collage. The application also enabled the drawing of arrows and the transformation of each added drawing into a step by step process enabling the creation of a video. The video clip was then uploaded directly to youtube straight from the Pics Art application. The application also allowed me to save the creation as an image. I have included both the image and the video in this blog post.
This “Rip-Mix-Feed” creation is a reflection on the evolution and interrelationships of the manifestation of the narrative. The first image exemplifies a typewriter, followed by a desktop computer, a laptop, a touch screen tablet, an audio recording on the computer, a video editing process to show a story and finally a voice command to search through a database. The voice command shows a return to orality. It connects with the different ways of knowing described by Ong (1982), however without a total abandonment of the written text that we have embraced for the past several centuries. The arrows symbolized the interconnectedness of each idea and are based on the principle described by the Xanadu Project (Nelson, 1991)
Ong, Walter. (1982.) Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. London: Methuen
Nelson, T. H.(1991) Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documnts, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning, and Deep Re-Use. Project Xanadu. Retrieved from:
http://cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/60.html