Saturday, September 26, 2015

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] nature of tool

>> On Sep 24, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Ken Friedman <ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com <mailto:ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Paul,
>>
>> Please do post information on the tool. I'm interested to read more on your thoughts concerning the notion of tool.
>>
>> Warm regards,

> Ken
> I created a blog post a few days ago on "tool". I participate on several mailing lists, including this
> one and two on digital humanities. The idea of technology as tool is only natural for us— tools
> help us get our research and work done. What would we do without them? At the same time, though, we
> should be sensitive to what lay beyond (or inside of) tool. Here it is:
>
> http://creative-automata.com/2015/09/22/when-tool-becomes-art/ <http://creative-automata.com/2015/09/22/when-tool-becomes-art/>
>
> -paul

Paul Fishwick, PhD
Chair, ACM SIGSIM
Distinguished University Chair of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication
Professor of Computer Science
Director, Creative Automata Laboratory
The University of Texas at Dallas
Arts & Technology
800 West Campbell Road, AT10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick <http://utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick>
Blog: creative-automata.com <http://creative-automata.com/>

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