- but I can't help sharing that I run a lab called the Media Archaeology
Lab (http://mediaarchaeologylab.com) and I consistently have the most
fascinating and rewarding experiences letting students tinker on so-called
dead media of all kinds, especially typewriters (they'll get to the end of
the line, the carriage bell will ring, and they'll exclaim in terror and
excitment 'omg what do I do now?!') and teaching them BASIC on Apple II
computers. These primarily English majors might have a strange kind of
nostalgia for these foreign machines but they're fundamentally floored by
the capabilities of these machines and sometimes even floored that they can
actually program (sometimes, for the first time in their lives).
yours, Lori
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Annick2 <abureaud@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK. One counter story :
>
> I was showing a few years ago computer animations from the late 80's to a
> group of students. They looked bored, kind of 'OK, let's listen to her
> enthusiasm, she is the teacher, what can we do". So, I asked them to
> express themselves. One student said : "This is a bit outdated, right ?"
> and another one answered "yeah, but you would be unable to do it". Which,
> actually, was exactly true ...
>
> Annick
>
> Le 12/07/14 19:46, Paul Brown a écrit :
>
> Bronac's humorous and enlightening anecdote reminds me of an event 20 or
>> so years ago at ISEA Helsinki. I had attended a late night presentation by
>> Larry Cuba of his exquisite and pioneering computer animations. As I
>> walked out (in a state of bliss!) a young couple were ahead of me and one
>> asked the other what they thought? They replied "boring old wire frame
>> stuff".
>>
>> Best to all
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 12 Jul 2014, at 20:35, bronac@boundaryobject.org wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>>
>>> Generational Memory? True Story.
>>>
>>> Overheard at The Barbican's 'Digital Revolutions' exhibition yesterday
>>> in Digital Archaeology section:
>>>
>>> Young man to very young woman pointing at dial up telephone which is
>>> surrounded by crowd of even younger and interested people -
>>> ... 'do you know how to use one of those?'
>>> Young woman 'no, but I think my Mother does'......
>>>
>>> B
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
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