Media Technologies::Thoughts#1

Originally, I thought of this blog as a place where I could report on the progress of my work and share some thoughts with you, the lucky visitor. However, for several reasons, one being that it is actually harder to write about one’s thinking on a blog, I haven’t been able to really achieve this [...]

Polymanga - Souk des univers mangas

Polymanga, grande messe printanière du divertissement japonais en Suisse romande, ressemble chaque année un peu plus à un grand souk, où se croisent divers publics d’autant plus bigarés, qu’une partie d’entre eux arrivent grimés des façons les plus extravagantes. Travailler en tant que volontaire sur un stand offre la belle opportunité d’entrer en contacts [...]

Web dream.0

These last few months, I have been experiencing little by little such online platforms as Facebook, WAYN, LinkedIn, and even Flickr, which are all supposed to be paragon of the famous Web 2.0. What they have in common is, as conceptualized by Heewon Kim at LIFT’08, the ideal of “self-branding” and “real-time intimacy”. In [...]

Throw paper to the dustbin?

Nowadays, it is quite the thing to predict the very near relegation of paper into the dustbin of obsolete storage medium, as e-books and other avatars are emerging. Several new platforms dedicated to books are making their way into the electronic stores at a relatively affordable price, such as the Amazon Kindle ($500), which boast [...]

The scroll and the book

There is something I have just realized when thinking about the position of the DVD in the long line of audiovisual record technologies, although it should have been very obvious. But maybe it is this obviousness that made it invisible to me until now. The DVD is like a digital hypertextual book, while the VHS [...]