<nettime> mapping electronic media systems

[brian carroll <human@electronetwork.org>]

  related to defining the tangible physical aspects of
  electronic media, new and old media, i created a map
  circa 1993-94 for a course by urban planner William
  Morrish at the U of Minnesota, USA. it can be seen at
  http://www.electronetwork.org/works/automadness/morrish/map.html
  and could be printed, if colors were inverted, else, a large
  screen resolution would help to see the whole, as it is rather
  large (around 250k). basically, the map was meant to show the
  relationship between discrete media, and the buildings that
  are related to them, in order to function, in an ecosystem.
  albeit, this is a map of the traditional way of doing things,
  where content filters down through an economic system and
  reaches the receiver/consumer, after being manufactured.
  in any case, seeing the relationship between a tv station
  and a television set, or that between a tv-vcr and a movie
  theater, a traditional theater, and a movie studio, in
  built form, has yet to be approached in the field of
  architecture, from a visually-recognized standpoint.
  that is, that there is information in the plan of things
  as they are, as they are evolving, that may be easier
  to see with images, than words alone. maybe not, for some,
  but for others, maybe so.

  this same concept of mapping the built environment around
  digital media system, especially with the advent of the
  broadband, open-source, peer-to-peer networking, and
  the DVD future could flatten the hierarchy in the map
  above to a large extent, or else reconfigure it, to the
  extent that it has economic, social, and political impacts.

  any input/output appreciated.brian



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