Category Archives: Machine/Human/Beauty

Art Dova: Forms of Personhood on Facebook

By Shana | Published: November 8, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I would love to get the data of this project  back from Facebook.  I guess it belongs to me, but I’m not sure of that.  It also belongs to them.  It belongs to the collective as well.  I’m not sure.  Either way, it would help my Bachelors to get the [...]
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Critiques In Tech

By Shana | Published: October 10, 2009
Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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Two Disparate Veiws of Tech

By Shana | Published: September 22, 2009
Two Stories.  I’ve been thinking about them a lot because I recently finished “In The Beginning was the Command Line.” (Which is slightly more apropos for two weeks from now, but never-mind.) (The 2004 response from Slashdot, also great.) I highly recommend the essay, which can be gotten from Neal Stephenson’s website, here.  It is a [...]
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

By Shana | Published: August 13, 2009
Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a technique [...]
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The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

By Shana | Published: August 4, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a matter of [...]
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Machine/Human/Beauty- A series on interfaces, art, design, and humanity

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2009
Image via Wikipedia As an art student with a great interest in the human figure, I’ve recently come to recognize that there might be people who have not dwelled on what makes for compelling software and hardware objects. As both a beginner to the coding side of life, but at least an intermediate student in the theories [...]
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