For this week’s blog post, I am choosing to respond to Johanna Drucker’s “From A to Screen.” In the reading Drucker ask questions about the transfer of letters from print to screen, noting that the status of letters cannot be resolved through technology alone but necessarily involves reflective and even perceptual questions. Drucker states that “So let’s return to the letters, the inventory of their conception, and ways such notions shift in the transubstantiation the alphabet undergoes in the course of historical change and technological variation.” (Drucker, 74) This quote stands out because were moving to the new age where letters are installed on the screen. We are fortunate to have a screen on our devices. The screen provides us with text and graphic images. For instance, the Touchscreen is becoming the new normal for devices. We often must be touching or swiping the screen to used it. For devices like the iPhone or car dashboards which are mostly touchscreen now. I found it to be very beneficial to have touchscreen because it’s much easier to work. Nobody never questions how letters appear on our screen we just like the fact it follows our command.

Work Citied
Drucker, Johanna. “From A to Screen.” Comparative Textual Media, University of Minnesota Press, 2013, pp. 71–96.

Museums to me are wonderful place to be and spend some time in.I give myself an excuse to go whether it is for class or even I just got some free time on my hands. Museums are buildings that contain information within various subject. They are literally libraries of history and information lined up against the walls. They could contain information in topics such as history of a lost civilization or even to less important stuff like pizza. The Metropolitan museum in New York is one of the most famous sites in world. It contains physical history from different parts of the world and time periods as well as art. Museums hold paintings, statues as usual ways to show history. But they can even go the creative route with Visualizations. In “What is Visualization?’ by Lev Manovich hr speaks of the definition of a visualization. According to him it is hard to pinpoint an exact definition but it is along the lines of using computers to create a visual of information which can either be static(still) or dynamic (moving).

One of my favorite examples of visuals in a museum is in the Whitney. There was an exhibit that used lights and live movies in different rooms to create fantasy like environments. Some rooms just contain lights to create physical patterns you can reach and touch other rooms are just movies you can watch with surround sound systems in the room to make it feel like your in a different environment.

For this week’s blog post, I am choosing to respond to Lev Manovitch’s “What is Visualization”. I thought this reading was very interesting to because it really put into perspective how far as a society we have come in regards to our communication, but even more so, the subcategory of visualized communicatinon.  Visualized communication can be dated pretty far back, pretty ancient, and each visual presentation, demonstrated or presented a story. Stories are what they had, myths, legends, family history was the history of the time. That is what was documented. Slowly but surely, we build up to some sort of textual documentation, and eventually, after constant editing and progression, we end up to today, and how out visual communication is transcribed in this day and age. I think it is so cool and fascinating to see how far the world has come. With our paintings, and art, and texts, and stories, it’s amazing what could be accomplished with the power of effort, science, and imagination.