Final Analysis on my Interactive Poster

Interactive Poster

Interesting Uses of Sound

Wherever we go, we are surrounded by sounds. Although we usually take sound for granted, they can sometimes be used in so many different ways we don’t usually expect. Interesting uses of sounds can date back to our ancestry’s use of the sound of music. 

Music is believed to have been used a way of communication back in those days and this is still the case today. At present, there are different quality, sounds and genres to music which attract different audiences for many different reasons. 

Ambient music is said to evoke an atmospheric, visual or unobtrusive quality. Bio music is a form experimental music which deals with sounds that are not created or performed by humans. This definition is sometimes extended to include sounds made by humans in a directly biological way. For example, music that is created by brain waves of the composer can be called biomusic as music is being music is being created by the human body without tools or instruments that aren’t part of the body. 

(Ambient Music Sound)


(Bio Music Sound)

Tim Berners-Lee (Research)

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee was born on the 8^th June 1955 in London, England. He is an English computer scientist and is best known for his invention of the World Wide Web. He also implemented the first successful communication a Hypertext Transfer Protocal (HTTP) client and server through the Internet around November in 1989.

After he had graduated, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole. He then joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset in 1978 where he helped create type setting software for printers.

He also worked as an independent contractor at a company called CERN in 1980 (from June to December). After leaving CERN, he accepted a job at John Poole’s Image Computer Systems, Ltd, In Bournemouth, England. His was given the role to run the company’s technical side for three years. He worked on a project that was a “real time remote procedure call” which gave him valuable experience in computer networking.

In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in pioneering. He was also elected a foreign associate of the United State National Academy of Sciences in April 2009.

Reference;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/read-all-about-it/sir-tim-berners-lee.jpg

Joseph Marie Jacquard (Research)

Joseph Marie Charles (called or nicknamed) Jacquard was born in Lyon, France on the 7^th July 1752 and died in Oullins, Rhone on the 7^th August 1834. He was a French weaver and merchant and played an important role in the development of programmable machines, such as computers.

Jacquard invented the ‘Jacquard Loom’ which is a mechanical loom that has holes punched in pasteboard cards, with each card corresponding to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched in the cards and the cards that compose the design of the textile are together in order. This method is based on earlier inventions by fellow Frenchmen Basile Bouchon (1725), Jean-Baptiste Falcon (1728) and Jacques Vaucanson (1740).

The Jacquard head used replaceable punched cards to control a sequence of operations. It is seen and considered by many as an important step in the history of computing hardware.

Reference;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard

http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Jacquard.html

Olia Lialina (Research)

Olia Lialina is a pioneer Internet Artist, Theorist, an experimental film & video critic and curator. Lialina studied Film Criticism and Journalism at Moscow State University, then went on to study art residencies at C3 (in Budapest) and Villa Walderta (in Munich).

She also created a web gallery of her work (named Art Teleportacia), which include and features links to remakes of her most noticeable and famous work such as “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War”. She was one of the organisers and later director of Cine Fantom, which is an experimental cinema club in Moscow co-founded in 1995. ‘My Boyfriend Came Back from the War’ is a site founded by Lialina where you will find many frames consisting of sentences and pictures. On the site, the user has the choice if clicking on whatever frame they want.

Lialina has taught at a range of different places which include New Media Lab (in Moscow, 1994); Joint Art Studios (in Moscow, 1995); University of Westminster (in London, 1997); MUU (in Helsinki 1997); Kunst Academiet (in Trondheim, 1998) and many more. Since 1999 Lialina has been teaching the ‘New Media Pathway’ at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. Some of her work is maintained in the computer fine arts collection at Cornell University.

Reference; 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olia_Lialina

http://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/2012/03/09/olia-lialina-and-97-web-melancholy/

Mystery Object (Amstrad PC)

The Amstrad PC was a compatible computer system which was first manufactured in 1986 by the company ‘Amstrad’.

It was originally released for £499 and sold well as it was seen as one of the cheapest computers (PCs) in Europe. It helped open up the European PC market to the public as well as it did for businesses and ‘Amstrad’ advertising.

The Amstrad PC used an "enhanced" CGA graphic mode, which was able to display 640x200 pixels with 16 colours (or grayscale). It was sold with MS-DOS 3.2, DR-DOS plus 1.2 (an operating system from Digital Research), GEM (a graphic interface), GEMPAINT and GEM BASIC.

Amstrad launched the Amstrad DMP3000 printer which consisted of an 80 character dox matrix printer with IBM and Espon compatibility and boasted NLQ (Near Letter Quality) and was able to handle both A4 and fanfold paper. It was only able to connect to a computer via a parallel port.

Amstrad is a British company that focus on electronics, which is now owned by BSkyB. In 2006, Amstrad decided to make its main business manufacturing Sky Digital Interactive boxes.

Amstrad was founded in 1968 by a successful business man Lord Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name ‘Amstrad’ is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.

Reference; 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512 

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=183