Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Clarified and Starting Slow

Today, in FACS 2930 Lab many things were clarified for me or for every student that's in it, hopefully. However even knowing what to somewhat do now, some smaller details on what to research about through the art concepts is still bugging me. I would usually ask myself: "What area should I choose to go in depth about?", "Maybe something that interests me?", "Hmm only using quotes within the text (no self made comments)"...all these questions are probably easy to answer but hard to do.

Thinking about it now though, I do like the topic interface...
From what I know so far, taken from the FACS2930 keywords, it says:

"The program or device that controls the way two pieces of equipment or programs work together. The term interface can also be used to describe the look and layout of a program on the screen for interaction with the user." (Reference)

I think what I want to say is that, in terms of interface, I'd like to study or research about the different interfaces that are available to us. Not sure if that's even allowed because in a way it has nothing to do with the concepts, I think. Something like Window Vista for an example, it's one of the interface that Microsoft created. Many people who knows computer or believes in how the desktop and theme of the interface is important wants to change the interface's appearance. Therefore, they hack into the interface in order to access the files of changing all icons and files (appearance-wise). I'm not sure if it even counts as a concept like "hacktivsm" since it's not motivated by political reasons. Ideological...maybe but not so much because it's not against an "activist or activism". I think the only way it might work is that people hack into the interface to change the appearance because Microsoft doesn't allow people to use outsider themes (not from their company). Would that work as an ideological reason...?

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